My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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