I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
AL YANKOVICI’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
AL YANKOVICYou can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
AL YANKOVICOne of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
AL YANKOVICAt 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.
AL YANKOVICI have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
AL YANKOVICSo then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
AL YANKOVICI’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
AL YANKOVICA lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
AL YANKOVICI have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
AL YANKOVICA lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
AL YANKOVICI’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
AL YANKOVICLike, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
AL YANKOVICI don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
AL YANKOVICI decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
AL YANKOVICNot 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.
AL YANKOVICThat’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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