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 YANKOVICIt’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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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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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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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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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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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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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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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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