Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
AL YANKOVICMy own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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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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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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