Trivia / Alpocalypse

• Approval of God:
  • Lady Gaga was hugely enthusiastic about "Perform This Way", feeling that it honored the spirit of "Born This Way" to such an extent that she declared it a Sequel Song.
  • According to Al, Jungle Cruise skippers and other Disneyland employees reacted unanimously positively to "Skipper Dan", and the only group that had any real negative reaction to the song was struggling actors.
• Executive Meddling: Happened with his parody of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way." Normally, Al doesn't even write a parody until he's gotten permission, but Gaga's manager insisted that she needed to hear it first, so he wrote the lyrics and sent them. Her manager's reply? That she needed to actually HEAR the song. Al, obviously thought it was weird since it was just going to be his lyrics with her music, but, as he wanted to use the song regardless of whatever hoops he had to jump, he went ahead and recorded it. When he got the rejection, he was rather disappointed. As it turns out, however, Gaga's manager had never even sent her the lyrics, let alone the song itself, because he assumed she would hate it. Therefore, she actually had no idea that the song existed, let alone was rejected. Once Gaga finally heard the song, she loved it.
• Reality Subtext: When Al asked Patrick Hughes, life partner of the late Charles Nelson Reilly, permission to write "CNR," Hughes mentioned that Reilly didn't like how Alec Baldwin's impression of him on Saturday Night Live made him out to be a "sissy." Hughes was unaware that the concept was to depict Reilly as a Chuck Norris-esque Memetic Badass, and Al reassured him that he had nothing to worry about.

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