There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
AL YANKOVICWhat kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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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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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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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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