My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
AL YANKOVICProbably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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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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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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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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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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see 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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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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