Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
AL YANKOVICI have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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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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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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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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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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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