But there can only be 10 (or maybe 11) in a Top 10, so just suck it up and celebrate the best. Off the top of my head, maybe “Gump” and “It’s All About the Pentiums” are very average compared to the best, and they’re still not bad. Weird Al has made a lot of videos during his amazing career and very few missed the mark. Of all the lists and meaningless rankings I may ever put together in my lifetime, I expect this one to be the most heavily debated. (Via NPR)īasically, we might be seeing a lot more relevant videos from Weird Al in the near future, but in the meantime I want to celebrate the launch of “Mandatory Fun” and eight brand new Weird Al Yankovic music videos by looking back on the hilarious videos that helped shape my warped sense of humor from a very early age. I just thought that would be a really fun way to do it, to make a big deal out of release week. I wanted a video to go viral for an entire day and have people talking about that video, and then the next day they’re talking about a new video.
I wanted the first week to be big I wanted every single day of release week to be an event. I wanted to really do what is ostensibly my last album with a big splash.
You are going to be releasing eight music videos in eight days for this album. But far more importantly, these eight videos are basically a wonderful sign of some new things to come.
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Why should I care about Old Al Yankovic anymore?” Well, made-up critic, for starters he’s the Elvis of parody, and unless you’re Prince imposing a lifetime “No Parody” command on your music to protect it from Al, you need to zip it and show some respect. “Big deal, Burnsy, there are plenty of hilarious parody music videos on YouTube. For example, on “Mandatory Fun,” he created a “Blurred Lines” parody entitled, “Word Crimes,” which takes on an all-time favorite talking point for the Internet – shitty grammar. So the challenge for the master is to not only examine what is already out there and what has worked, in order to avoid stepping on toes, but to still come up with something new that will appeal to his fans. Hell, there are even fan-made videos of the Weird Al songs that never got videos. In a new interview with NPR, Al admitted that the existence of YouTube has made his job significantly more difficult, seeing as every popular song has been parodied 10 billion times, some funny and many, many others just painfully lame. Unlike a lot of aging stars, Weird Al still doesn’t take himself all that seriously, and at the very least, he doesn’t think that he’s the only player in the game. Tomorrow, the music parody icon will release his 13th studio album, “Mandatory Fun,” and to remind all of his fans and especially the new kids of the YouTube generation that he’s still the Prince of Polka Parody, Weird Al is releasing not one, but eight new music videos starting with today’s “Tacky.” The other seven will debut at 11 AM ET each day until next Tuesday, when the artist will undoubtedly put down his accordion and get to work on his next batch of wonderful ideas.
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Even at the age of 54, with a comedy career that has spanned more than two-thirds of his life, “Weird Al” Yankovic knows how to thrive.
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