Weird Al Yankovic

Cant find a thread for him, so I figured I'd start one. Anyone find it odd we havent really seen any parodies from him (unless you count the Hamilton Polka)? I mean, he announced that Mandatory Fun would be his last album so he could come up with parodies faster, but we havent seen any from him. I mean, come on, are songs like WAP or Blinding Lights that hard to parody?

I'm surprised he never tried to do a parody of Karma Chameleon, and have it be about Comic-Con.

I believe Weird Al has said he takes the occasional breaks because writing parodies takes time.

Admittedly, apart from attending a couple of his concerts within the past decade, I haven't really kept up with his current career. Mostly because I don't listen to a lot of current music anyway, so I wouldn't really know what his latest songs are parodies of (unless I looked it up, and i'm too lazy for that).

My idea was that if Mandatory Fun had come out a little later, he could have done a parody of Adele's theme from Skyfall about SkyMall - kinda along the same lines as his Backstreet Boys parody "Ebay" I guess, just a List Song about all the ridiculous stuff he bought from a SkyMall catalog.

I've been a huge Weird Al fan since childhood - growing up in the 90's, I'm pretty sure "Yoda" was the first song of his that I heard. I actively started buying his albums in my early teenage years, culminating in my best friend and I meeting Al in our senior year of high school at the album signing on Straight Outta Lynwood's release date.

Who would you like him to do a style parody of? Considering how popular they are with nerds I'm surprised he hasn't parodied Rush. The Decemberists also come to mind for me.

Apart from the Karma Chameleon/Comic-Con idea I posted above, I was talking with a friend the other that a funny parody for him would be a parody of Taylor Swift's "Blank Space", but have it be about working in a Starbucks (because of the famous "Starbucks Lovers" mondegreen).

I feel like if he were to do a Rush style parody, it should take the form of Epic Rocking - maybe not a full on 20 minute song, but somewhere in the range of nine to eleven minutes since he has originals that long. Maybe take the "Trapped In The Drive-Thru" tack of making it a long, dramatic song about something mundane - like a "2112" style epic about trying to find a parking spot or something. It'd also be cool if he got Parody Assistance from Geddy Lee and/or Alex Lifeson - they seem to have enough of a sense of humor about themselves that I could see them doing it, and it wouldn't even be the first time Geddy appeared on a comedy song.

Edited by MikeK on Apr 16th 2021 at 11:58:03 AM

I guess Weird Al won't be so weird anymore...

Alright, you actually got me right up until "Regular Al". Pretty funny article too, feels like something Al himself would do.

Edited by Small_Mess on Jul 7th 2021 at 1:16:03 PM

Wait... That was a joke article?!

Seriously, Google posted it on their main page!

It is pretty funny that whoever (or whatever automated program) was aggregating articles for Google got fooled. Now I do think it would be cool if some Anonymous Band quietly put an avant-garde/noise album on bandcamp, it picked up a bit of buzz, and then it turned out to be Weird Al.

Not sure anyone's seen this, but there's a Weird Al biopic in the works with Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al.