Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
AL YANKOVIC
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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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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