People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
AL YANKOVICAs a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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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 do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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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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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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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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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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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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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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