I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
AL YANKOVICI don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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