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.
AL YANKOVICBecause you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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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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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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 am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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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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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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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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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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