There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
AL YANKOVICGot a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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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 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’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 don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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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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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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