I find myself with Suibhne on this one. Not everything is improved by being sent up. Nor does every send-up furnish any insight into the original. Jenni G, in the OP, praises this farrago by asserting that she 'will never feel the same about western movie music again'. Would she care to explain wherein lies the advantage of that? I like western movie music [Morricone, Bernstein, Moross ...], and should prefer to be left in peace to continue feeling the same about it, thank you. Why, Will, should it be 'invested with an exaggerated level of irony'? What does it, or the hearer, supposedly gain by that? If one recited, say, Donne's 'A Nocturnal Upon St Lucie's Day' or Keats' 'To Autumn' in a silly voice, would any 'exaggerated level of irony' thus achieved make the world in any way a better place? And, if so, how?

As to the "great Hoffnung" prayed in support above: I was always bored to sobs by his work, & could never make out what anyone was laughing at.

~Michael~