parody

Soon after, he launched his “Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour,” playing small venues with no video screens, no costume changes, no props or choreography, and none of the song parodies that made him famous.

What at moments feels like a nascent interrogation of contemporary masculinity ultimately suffers from the very impulses it seems to want to parody.

The gender essentialism is beyond parody, where all women exist only inside the narrow parameters of a toddler’s view of Mommy.

Fox News, however, appears more upset at the parody than at the original.

Yet, each callback has been costumed enough not to feel like a parody of a parody.