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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.

Al Yankovic

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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Everybody Forty Know Radio Show Still Superstar
I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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Everything Go Life Live Now Out Rest Write
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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Bulk Finish Fit Mandatory Nicely Pretty Promotion Scheule
It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Difficult Friend Player Rock Teenager
There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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Country Enough Music People Serious Stuff Unfunny
My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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Approval Artist Go Idea Parody Positive Process Record Song
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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Doe Internet Like Out Stuff Suit Turn
So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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Continue Day Joke That Up Very
People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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Do Funny Music People Serious Think
Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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Forty Job Listen Music Now Right Top
I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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Big Date Foot Put Sally Siamese Slept Too Twin
As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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Able Dad Father Life Live Make Success
It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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Articulate Enough Idea Make Movie Parameter Song
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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Book Career Child Picture Pretty Raed Same Time Want Year
You fake something until you’re good at it.
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Fake Good Something Until
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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Career Course Iron Last Longer Over Parody People Year
Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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Bean Consume Ingest Magic More
Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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Build Fan Feature Guess Huge One People Plura Specific Wrote
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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Actual Life Long Onstage Pick Possible Realize Rest Song Studio Time Work
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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Acne Bag Everywhere Facial Girl Hair Make Ugly Unwanted
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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Artist Attention Austin Kind More Music
Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Belly Button Color Huge Maybe Social Taboo
I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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Along Catch Comfort Hopefully Somewhere Try
I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Actual Best Most Obvious Route Sometimes Try
There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Arm Challenge Clever Different Fashion Lot Parody Sign Song
My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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Although Dough Mean Some Velvet World Worth
Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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Anybody Hate Make Music Parody Really

I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.

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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.

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