I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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,
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I 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.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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Because 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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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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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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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