My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
AL YANKOVICIn the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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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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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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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’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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