It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
AL YANKOVICI can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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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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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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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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