Is that Taylor Swift singing about Singapore?

SINGAPORE - Who’s Tay Ler Swee and why is she singing about having “no space” in Singapore? As it turns out, it’s a YouTube video parodying Taylor Swift and her hit Blank Space which has been viewed 28,337 times (at last count) since it was uploaded three days ago.

Credits said it was presented by Blacktablecloth and Tay Ler Swee with little details apart from an explanation that said: “First-time voter Tay Ler Swee gets a house visit from a smart, handsome, “perfect” candidate. She tells him we have no more space in SG, how will everything end?”

Blacktablecloth previously put up several other video parodies about life in Singapore such as Our Air So Hazy (inspired by Britney Spears’ You Drive Me Crazy).

Besides Taytay, other pop cultural references have also been given a creative treatment by netizens: Film director Royston Tan’s upcoming vehicle about a parking attendant dreaming of becoming a singer found its poster enhanced and renamed to feature this year’s election candidates.

The outgoing director wrote on his Facebook page: “I almost fell of my chair laughing at this! 3688 becomes GE 2015! Too funny not to share! Here’s a toast to the creativity of netizens.”

Yet another local movie which found its poster revamped is Neo’s Homerun which Minister for Social and Family Development Mr Tan Chuan Jin as the protagonist (referencing news reports that he has been seen running around private estates during the campaign season to meet residents).

The face of Singapore Democratic Party candidate Mr Chee Soon Juan has been spliced onto the poster for Tom Cruise’s latest Mission: Impossible instalment except this time the poster read: Mission: Ispossible. Rogued Nation.

And who would have thought that James Cameron’s sappy movie, Titanic, would prove fodder for humour site Sgag, which used it to feature Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and the leader of the Workers’ Party, Mr Low Thia Khiang who have both kept up with the ship analogies in their speeches?