Tikidämmerung: Twilight of the Tiki Gods
Pele the Benevolent, by John Rafferty
A comment by orangeguru put me in mind of a something I wrote several years ago for the old Exotica mailing list, called Tikidämmerung. Essentially, it's a piss-take on Wagner's Gotterdämmerung, with all the principal characters played by figures from popular music.
What inspired me to write it was an article I'd just written for Cool and Strange Music magazine about Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and his lifelong desire to be an opera singer. More specifically, he wanted to assay the role of Siegfried in the Ring Cycle. I also wanted to satirize the way that popular music keeps recycling everything that's come before it, although I don't think I was terribly successful in getting that point across.
I've put both online for your reading pleasure (or derision).
[Link: Tikidämmerung: Twilight of the Tiki Gods]
[Link: If You Are But A Dream: the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Story]