Papa Razzi and the Photogs

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Papa Razzi and the Photogs (Spotify link) is one of Matt Farley's most popular novelty song bands. The band's songs primarily focus on celebrities, though many albums contains songs about people who have simply contacted Farley, written about Farley, or just interest him and may not be especially famous.

Papa Razzi (along with his early Sports bands) was the beginning of Farley's attempt to maximize streaming reviews in 2007, with its debut album Dream Girls released in July 2007, just a week after he released Go Red Sox! by The Boston Baseball Band. The band has released 38 albums as of October 2022. The albums range from 14 to 100 tracks in length, with many albums having over 90 tracks. The band's total output across the 38 albums (and one single) released through December 2020 is 2,644 songs.

As of 2024, the most streamed song by this artist is It's OK if you Poop/Pee Your Pants Sometimes. Don't Feel Bad., with over 2.5 million streams on Spotify. Before that song took off, as of August 2019, the most streamed song on Spotify was "Ladies Love Justin Beiber", which appears on the band's eighth album, Songs About Famous People (Who Didn’t Ask Me to Write About Them) (2010). On YouTube a fan-made video for "Jensen Ackles, Great Man" from Celebrity People Are the Better People Yes True (2013) is among the band's most watched videos.

Farley appeared on New Hampshire Chronicle, a local television program, under this band name in 2010. NH Chronicle - Papa Razzi and the Photogs (Youtube, 6:34)

Farley performed the Papa Razzi song "Used to Be a Pizza Hut" from I Feel Compelled to Make Good Music Songs (2014) on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in 2016.

In July 2022, Kylie and Kris Jenner posted a Tiktok dancing to "Kris Jenner, You Are a World Famous Wonderful Woman"[1] from The Life of This Legendary American Music Man is Quite Good, Yes (2012), which received a great deal of celebrity press coverage, and a massive number of views. Cosmopolitan speculated that the band must be "pretty big" fans of Keeping Up with the Kardashians to write the song, which they called "hilarious".[2]

Discography[]

Year	Album	Tracks	Note(s)
2007	Dream Girls	17 (30:08)	Debut for this act. Spotify lists a release date of July 19, 2007. On the song "Papa Razzi and the Photogs" on Fame is Awesome! (2010), Farley says this album took three days to write and record, and that he has put less and less effort into the subsequent albums.
2007	Papa Razzi and the Photogs Get Political	14 (28:29)	Second album by this act. Spotify lists a release date of Nov. 20, 2007.
2008	Star Struck	21 (45:09)	Third album by this act. Spotify lists a release date of June 30, 2008
2008	Dream Girls, Vol. 2	30 (54:27)	Fourth album. Second in the Dream Girls series. Spotify lists a release date of Nov. 19, 2008.
2009	Famous People	32 (1 hour)	The fifth album by this act. Spotify lists a release date of April 16, 2009.
2009	Celebrities!	47 (1 hr 12 min)	6th album. Spotify lists a release date of Oct. 26, 2009
2010	Fame is Awesome!	47 (1 hr 19 min)	7th album. On the final track, "Papa Razzi and the Photogs", Farley says it took one and a half days to record the entire album. Spotify release date of March 17, 2010. Album cover is from Monsters, Marriage and Murder in Manchvegas movie.
	Songs About Famous People (Who Didn’t Ask Me to Write About Them)	42 (1 hr 13 min)	8th album. Spotify release date of October 4, 2010.
	Songs About Great Literary Giants (And Other Very Important People)	36 (1 hr 0 min)	9th album. Their last cover with photocopied black and white cover art. Spotify release date October 21, 2010.
2011	Unstoppable Songs About Super People	93 (2 hr 30 min)	10th. Spotify release date February 23, 2011. Album cover photo also used on Happy Birthday Vol. 1 (2011) by The Best Birthday Song Band Ever.
	Papa Razzi Gets Introspective, Shares his Worldview, And Offers Advice	96 (2 hr 32 min)	11th. Spotify release date June 8, 2011. Album cover photo also used on You Are My Best Friend in the World, Vol. 5 (2011) by The Best Friend Song Fun Band.
	Songs About Comedians: Comedy People Are Interesting and Funny	92 (2 hr 22 min)	12th. Spotify release date of September 6, 2011. Same cover photo was used on cover of Packers and Brewers Songs (2011) by The Green Bay & Milwaukee Sports Band.
	Papa Razzi is Back. And He’s Singing More Nice Songs!	97 (2 hr 39 min)	13th. Spotify release date of October 27, 2011.
2012	The Maniac Genius Piano Song Person Again	91 (2 hr 23 min)	14th. Spotify release date of January 30, 2012. Album cover photo is from Don't Let The Riverbeast Get You! movie shoot.
	The Life of This Legendary American Music Man is Quite Good, Yes	87 (1 hr 57 min)	15th. Spotify release date of April 12, 2012
	More Songs About Funny Comic Comedian People	86 (2 hr 15 min)	16th. Spotify release rate of July 16, 2012
	Finally! A Bunch of Songs about Movie Directors	83 (2 hr 14 min)	17th. Spotify release date of July 26, 2012
	This Man Sings Songs That the People Long For	88 (2 hr 13 min)	18th. Spotify release date of September 28, 2012. Includes "Will Ferrell, You are a Comedy Sensation, You Do Fine Work." which Ferrell later heard.
2013	I Like Famous People and Podcasts and so On	93 (2 hr 15 min)	19th. Spotify release date of February 22, 2013. Album cover also used on Happy Birthday (You're Getting Old, Vol. 16) by The Birthday Band For Old People.
	Celebrity People Are the Better People Yes True	95 (2 hr 22 min)	20th. Spotify release date of May 31, 2013
	Most of These People Were Guests On Podcasts I Listened To	97 (2 hr 21 min)	21st. Spotify release date of August 26, 2013. Album cover photo also used on Fun With Names Songs, Vol. 10 by The Guy Who Sings Your Name Over and Over.
	You Will Possibly Enjoy These Songs	94 (2 hr 24 min)	22nd. Spotify release date of November 15, 2013
2014	Somebody Needed to Make These Songs	97 (2 hr 16 min)	23rd. Spotify release date January 16, 2014.
	These Are The Songs I Made This Week	92 (2 hr 14 min)	24th. Spotify release date January 29, 2014.
	Famous Fictional People	83 (2 hr 3 min)	25th. Spotify release date March 26, 2014.
	I Can’t Get Over How Great These Songs Are	92 songs	26th. Spotify release date June 10, 2014.
	I Feel Compelled to Make Good Music Songs	93 (2 hr 11 min)	27th. Spotify release date October 8, 2014
	U.S. Senators	100 (2 hr 12 min)	28th. Spotify release date November 29, 2014. Press mention of the Pennsylvania senators songs.[3]
2015	So, What Do You Think of These Songs?	88 (2 hr 3 min)	29th. Spotify release date January 31, 2015.
	These Songs Sound Great!	82 (1 hr 54 min)	30th. Spotify release date July 30, 2015. Discussed on MMIP #65 (August 23, 2015). Matt is wearing a "Robot City Games" T-Shirt on the cover, a store in Binghamton, NY.
	I Don’t Know Why I Do This	96 songs (2 hr 2 min)	31st. Spotify release date November 23, 2015
2017	Something Yes Because!	42 (59:53)	32nd. Spotify release date March 7, 2017.
2018	This Album Is Pretty Good	50 (1 hr 16 min)	33rd. Spotify release date January 7, 2018
2018	I Am Not Wasting My Life	50 (1 hr 31 min)	34th. Spotify release date May 19, 2018. Includes "Ken Mills Is the Podfather", discussed on his podcast (POP #31 at 34 min) [4] (July 12, 2018).
2019	More Famous Songs Always for People	50 (1 hr 25 min)	35th. Spotify release date February 28, 2019
	I Will Never Stop Singing About Celebrities Because It Is My Calling in Life	50	36th album. Released June 14, 2019.
	Charlie Gunn Is Wonderful and Yes!	Single only	Single. Released August 10, 2019 (Spotify).
2020	Most Songs for People	50 (1 hr 23 min)	37th. Released December 9, 2020.
2022	I Feel Dumb Singing About Famous People so Much but It's All I Know.	50 (1 hr 35 min)	38th. Spotify release date July 17, 2022
2024	Best Songs That People Enjoy	46 (1 hr 42 min)	39th. Released June 7, 2024.