Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
AL YANKOVICI 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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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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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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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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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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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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.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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As 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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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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