Al generally tries to avoid blatantly making fun an artist who has given him permission to parody their work, but sometimes he does his fair share of good-natured ribbing, example include the above mentioned "It's Still Billy Joel to Me," "Smells Like Nirvana," and "Perform This Way. Hij staat vooral bekend om zijn parodieën op bekende top 40-hits, hoewel deze slechts ongeveer de helft van de liederen op zijn albums beslaan. Samen waren ze de openingsact bij een concert van Missing Persons. Many songs like "Fat", "My Bologna" and "Eat It" are about eating too much. “Melanie” is about stalking a woman he barely knows. Even with the occasional dip into raunchy subtext, he still aims to be (in his words) a "more-or-less family-friendly" performer. Al rags on Pauly Shore every once in a while. Zijn carrière breidde zich al snel uit naar andere media. Al has admitted (re: "Skipper Dan") that he feels a certain sympathy with actual Disney Jungle Cruise tour guides, as his own live shows can get repetitive for him. Zo onderging hij oogchirurgie om zijn myopie te verhelpen, schoor hij zijn snor af, en liet hij zijn haar lang groeien. Also, a hatred of Prince, especially in his fake interviews. The two slashes // may indicate: . You don't get to come back tomorrow. In "Your Horoscope for Today" the prediction for Sagittarius begins like this: "You Don't Love Me Anymore" is a humorous breakup song but it has this pair of lines, equivalent to a punch in the gut: "Why Does This Always Happen To Me?" ", In the video for "Word Crimes", a song about. Since 1999, every album has included bonus video content that can be viewed on a computer (if not also a DVD player), though. The final episode of, Let's not forget this part of "Close But No Cigar", Amish Paradise contains the line "I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art! Averted by "TMZ", which is more of a downer. The very last line has him lamenting that they forgot the onions. Subverted in the uncensored version of "The Night Santa Went Crazy" (in which Santa is killed in the shootout), no mention is made of Vixen and Donner's fates, except that Vixen's in therapy and Donner's still nervous. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. The video for "Foil" intercuts the line "Be aware" with single frame shots of Al covered in blood. The video for "It's All About The Pentiums" spends plenty of time parodying the original video and "Mo Money Mo Problems", but even the unrelated scenes mimic the fisheye-heavy visual style of Hype Williams. His first non-concert appearance in Weird Al's works was the video for "Headline News", in which he portrayed Crash Test Dummies pianist Ellen Reid. A lyrical parody of "Party In The USA" by, Proper grammar would make it a "Bachelor of Writing. In de jaren 70 was Yankovic groot fan van Elton John. A lady wearing a hat with a train on it is also in one of the vintage stock video clips in "Dare to Be Stupid". The popularity of his work eventually created the "Weird Al" Effect (where a parody remains popular long after the original), and his habit of using pop culture metaphors (AKA "Pulling a Weird Al") led to his being the former trope namer for that. Take your heart medication first — wouldn't want to Die Laughing. ", He once said "I think my chances of getting into the. Al has since disowned "It's Still Billy Joel to Me" although Joel himself admitted to loving the parody, and he even performed it a few times. Dit was lange tijd de hoogste positie die een van Yankovic’ nummers ooit wist te bereiken, tot in oktober 2006 zijn lied White & Nerdy de negende plaats wist te halen. In "A Complicated Song", he describes being beheaded as a "major inconvenience". Those Siskel and Ebert bums oughta go home and sit on their thumbs! Another possible example in "I Remember Larry," after he talks about tying the titular pranker's mouth with a rag and leaving him for dead: Most of "Party at the Leper Colony", but especially: From "Perform This Way," regarding Gaga's meat dress, which the woman in the video also wears: "I'll Sue Ya", since it's a style parody of. Ook artiesten als Tom Lehrer, Stan Freberg, Spike Jones, Allan Sherman, Shel Silverstein en Frank Zappa zouden volgens Yankovic hebben bijgedragen aan zijn keuze om musicus te worden. ", "Brady Bunch" and "Achy Breaky Song" are thematically similar, in that Al would rather do literally, "I'll Sue Ya" is about Al's string of frivolous lawsuits. I JUST DON'T WANT ANY LIVER! "Let Me Be Your Hog", coming in at 16 seconds. In "Headline News" John Wayne Bobbitt is physically perfectly fine and merely surprised, annoyed and puzzled over his severed penis. His uncharacteristically nasty mock interview with Kevin Federline qualifies in its entirety, but the most directly insulting piece would be: And new verses (from the 2007 tour) about Paris Hilton's DUI and, "Midnight Star" contains several headlines from actual supermarket tabloids including one about "The Incredible Frog-Boy! His parody "Foil" sounds like a return to Al's old food-themed parodies. The video for "Foil" has Al hosting a cooking show which is directed by, Al has directed several of Ben Folds' videos, and appears as himself in his role as the director in the video for. Doubles as a, From "Bob": "'Naomi', I moan, 'a Toyota's a Toyota'. In het laatste jaar van zijn studie aan de universiteit was hij diskjockey van het campusradiostation KCPR. One of the images in the Mandatory Fun booklet has Al triumphantly holding a wrench in the style of old Chinese Communist posters. I got 99 problems but a switch ain't one! [5] In 2018 kreeg hij een ster op de Hollywood Walk of Fame. Al himself has relayed a story of a television appearance he had soon after the surgery and shaving off his moustache (. Also in the middle of "Your Horoscope for Today," also all in one breath: I present to you the tale of his trip to Albuquerque. "Word Crimes" has "'Weird Al' Yankovic has a. With the release of Mandatory Fun, Al fulfilled his record contract, and he now plans to go with completely digital releases in the future, which gives him the opportunity to release new songs as they're completed instead of waiting until he has enough material for a full album. In Complicated Song, he says this about being headless: In the Video for "I'll Sue Ya," Weird Al plays a litigation-happy person who sues anyone and everyone for, The douchebag Al plays in the "First World Problems" video. Sure, he initially screams, but there's no blood, his pajamas aren't disturbed and he merely starts searching the house like he's trying to find lost car keys. The only song for which he didn't have permission was "Amish Paradise", but there was nothing malicious about it; a miscommunication led Al to believe he actually did have permission, and by the time it was cleared up, it was too late. Initially, his singing style was strictly his crazy, shrill-sounding voice; he'd largely. Al said he picked getting fast food as the topic of the song because it was the most banal thing he could think of. "The Night Santa Went Crazy". http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/WeirdAlYankovic. Also "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long": "One More Minute" was written to get over an ex, and he rips her picture in the video. Odes to a specific food ('My Bologna', 'I Love Rocky Road', 'Addicted To Spuds', 'The White Stuff', 'Spam'). ", We’re gonna kick your collective posterior, "My barista didn't even bother to make a design in the foam on the top of my vanilla latte! He never acts meshugga and he's hardly a schlemiel; but if you wanna haggle, oy, he'll make you such a deal! Literature Movie Trivia Music Trivia People Religion Science Trivia Sports Trivia Television Video Games World. His voice has appeared both before and since the latter in a number of cartoons, with his roles ranging from one-off gag characters to the title characters of the Animal Man Animated Adaptation and the Disney XD cartoon Milo Murphy's Law. Unlike other parody-centric artists, Al and his band (who have been together since the 80s) from the second album on — the first album used accordion on every track, in keeping with Al's trademark talent — stay extremely close to the original melodies and instrumentation of the song they parody. Rather than thinking it depraved. In 1989, Weird Al starred in the film UHF, and he had a short-lived CBS "kids' show" in the 1990s, The Weird Al Show. RV crew merging forms and spitting Smile Juice on him. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. In the most extreme example of this attention to detail, "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" (based on R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet") sounds exactly like the original. At the beginning of "Word Crimes", a dictionary's pages are turning through the A's. "Spam" is a parody of "Stand" about the meat. In the early days of filesharing (LimeWire especially), a lot of comedy/parody songs were falsely attributed to Al. During the "Perform This Way" video, after the line, "I'll poke your eye out with a dress like this." ", She's like "Why would I want to eat liver? The suggestive butter-churning in the "Amish Paradise" video. ... "Weird Al" meets The Beatles 10 ... can you guess which Beatles songs "Weird Al" Yankovic is hypothetically parodying? Albuquerque follows a man who gradually loses his mind after escaping a, Everything You Know is Wrong can be seen as one of these too (if you consider that all the things that happen to be inside his head, maybe after being horrifically injured in the car crash at the beginning). In 1992 besloot hij veganist te worden naar aanleiding van het boek Diet for a New America. Although maybe subverted during the bridge and end, as air raid sirens are mixed in with the festive music. Inverted with “White and Nerdy.” Chamillionaire credited Weird Al’s hit with making his song, “Ridin’ Dirty,” an even bigger hit and ultimately winning him the Grammy for “Rap Song of the Year.”, Some people believed that "Don't Download This Song" was actually trying to spread the message that. The best way to tell if Al performed a given song is to look for music videos of them on YouTube. Most of Al's albums during the '80s and '90s went platinum; Al shrewdly used Viral Marketing to saturate social media with publicity for his 2014 album Mandatory Fun, and he was rewarded with that album debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 (his first number one album ever). Every time he plays a fictionalized version of himself, the character is a, In 2018, Al went on tour in smaller, more intimate theaters, with limited production (no costumes, props, or video screens), and a set list comprised almost entirely of original non-parody songs. In 1998 besloot hij zijn uiterlijk te veranderen om zo een nieuw imago voor zichzelf te creëren. He shops at discount stores, not just any will suffice; He has to find a bargain 'cause he won't pay retail price. "to not drool" is a split infinitive; the proper phrasing would be "Try your best not to drool". His self-titled first album. "Since You've Been Gone" seems to be an a capella describing (with typical "Weird Al" wackiness and exaggeration) how a man has suffered since a breakup, until the last line: "Good Old Days" is a wistful song about the singer's youth and how life was simpler then before it takes a dark turn: "Why Does This Always Happen To Me?" "The Biggest Ball of Twine In Minnesota". "Since You've Been Gone" is a bunch of Weird Als singing a cappella (except for the bass line, which is Steve Jay). You don't even get a lousy copy of our home game. Apparently having a babymama on the side was forgivable, but eating the last of the Rice Krispies was the last straw! The meme even spawned its own form of digital currency, dogecoin . "Foil" sounds like Al's usual food parody song until the second verse, when Al reveals it is a. "That snorkel's been just like a snorkel to me!" and they ran out of Dr.Pepper and salted peanuts, IGNORANT, NO-TALENT, WHITE TRASH, FORTUNE-SQUANDERING VANILLA ICE-WANNABE, Reports Of My Retirement Were Greatly Exaggerated, list of everything the store has in the back, shoots a disgusted look at the camera as if to say, "what are you looking at? Yankovic is het enige kind van Louis Yankovic en Mary Elizabeth. David Bowe was in. ", Dad would whoop us every night till a quarter after twelve, "What a crazy fluke/we're gonna get nuked/on this jolly holiday! [6] Voor hij zijn muziekcarrière begon, studeerde Yankovic architectuur aan de California Polytechnic State University. You can't have that! Trashy talk shows ('Talk Soup', 'Jerry Springer'). The name of one of his albums: Weird Al Yankovic Even Worse. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Doge became a YouTube Easter egg, a cameo in a Weird Al Yankovic video, and appeared on the car of Nascar driver Josh Wise. In the animated video for "Skipper Dan", the female tour guide who mimes shooting herself in tandem with Dan is the same redhead with whom he'd appeared in "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" during one of Dan's acting flashbacks. He played a rather annoying yoga practitioner in "Enlightening Strikes", the tenth episode of the 2015, He played the conformist, normal control panel Pal.0 in the eponymous episode of, The predictions in "Your Horoscope for Today" that don't fall under. "Sports Song" can basically be summed up by saying we're great, you suck, you really suck, and in case you missed it, Al also has a habit of leaking one or more songs from his upcoming albums early, usually by posting it to, In "I Remember Larry" he apparently responds to Larry's constant pranks by murdering him. picture. "Addicted to Spuds" is a parody of "Addicted to Love" about potatoes. ", The video for "You Don't Love Me Anymore"—which is a sad, acoustic ballad—ends with Al (who is not holding an instrument) being suddenly overcome by the dejection expressed in the song, at which point he violently wrests the acoustic guitar from his guitarist's grasp, demolishes it. Zijn interesse in muziek ontstond toen hij op zijn zesde accordeon leerde spelen via een aanbod van de lokale muziekschool. The popularity of the term doge peaked around the end of 2013 and into early 2014. Almost every franchise has at least some internal conflict among its fanbase, but a truly broken base is characterized by a sustained and exceptionally vicious conflict between two or more large, vocal, and entrenched factions with little or no middle ground to be found between them. He was awarded his star on the 27th of August 2018. My Little Pony: Vriendschap is betoverend, Weird Al's Imitation: A Funky Form of Flattery, Weird Al Yankovic's latest send-ups on The Catch-up, "Weird Al" Yankovic: Frequently Asked Questions, "Weird Al" Yankovic Interview by Michael Small of Hotwired.com, Nederlandse Thesaurus van Auteursnamen Persoon ID, https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic&oldid=58394046, Wikipedia:Lokale afbeelding gelijk aan Wikidata, Wikipedia:Commonscat met lokaal zelfde link als op Wikidata, Creative Commons Naamsvermelding/Gelijk delen, zanger, producer, songwriter, acteur, regisseur. Op 9 april 2004 werden zijn ouders dood aangetroffen in hun huis, mogelijk als gevolg van een koolmonoxidevergiftiging. When Al asked Kurt Cobain for permission to parody one of his songs, Kurt asked what it would be about. "That goat doesn't love you! I gotta be delighted; The gossips love him, even non-Jewish women think he's swell! The Not Al List was created to catalog these songs and give them the proper attribution. In 1985 schreef Yankovic mee aan een mockumentary over zijn eigen leven getiteld The Compleat Al. At the point of the song for "literacy's your mission", there's a visual reference to, The song "Tacky" includes the line "If I'm bit by a zombie, prob'ly not telling you." A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far Far Away... Just blow out the candles and have a piece of cake. There's a portion of "Jurassic Park" that involves a lot of screaming, mainly stock screams. Al scored another minor hit in 1980 with "Another One Rides the Bus" (a parody of Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust") and decided to pursue a career in music, feeling architecture wasn't really his calling. The reigning king of Song Parody, Alfred Matthew Yankovic (born October 23, 1959), is an American musical humorist with a career spanning 40 years. NOW THAT'S what got the gal's goat the most! When Kurt finally watched the music video, his former bandmate confirmed that he was on the floor laughing so hard from the video. Played straight in "Trapped in the Drive-Thru": "Party in the CIA" readily comes to mind, as the protagonist is captured and is about to be executed. He's doin' well, I gotta kvell; The yentas love him, even shiksas think he's swell! There's also visual references to Doge and the "Use your brains, morans!" Yankovic is bij het grote publiek het meest bekend van zijn parodieën. On a shot of a piece of homework paper, the homeroom teacher is listed as ". Coolio (the original artist) got over it and, Al has said that "Achy Breaky Song" is pretty harsh, apologized to, "You're Pitiful", a parody of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful", received Blunt's approval and was all ready to be included on. Taco Belle, Starbux, Toysaurus and Homey Depot among others in the music video for "I'll Sue Ya". The original "Dare to Be Stupid" averts this trope. "Trapped In The Drive-Thru". They think I'm turning into some kind of freak. ", Don't forget "Woofie" the dog: "WOOFIE YOU. (one of whom, Lisa Popeil, is the daughter of the "Mr. Popeil" the song's named after), Also homages to "Stars on 45", as referenced by the first's title, "Polkas on 45", The joke being that the town is so boring that a, "Weird Al Yankovic" and "Even Worse" are the odd ones out here, The exceptions being "The Hot Rocks Polka", which is a medley of Rolling Stones' songs from a wider span of time, and "Bohemian Polka" is a double-speed full cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody", While he did have roles in some well known films such as, A reference to birthday of Al's mother, February 7, or 2/7, Al once recieved a telegram from Prince's lawyers before the American Music Awards, demanding that he did not make eye contact with Prince, Probably a rip on the parodied song rhyming the word "it" with ..."it.". Depending on which version you listen to, it ends with Santa Claus either in jail for several hundred years, or dead. De muziek is vrijwel hetzelfde (of in een polkajasje gestoken), maar de teksten zijn satirisch. The big super-long, really epic song ('Nature Trail To Hell', 'The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota', 'Albuquerque', 'Genius In France'). In "Everything You Know Is Wrong", he doesn't react at all to having his internal organs sucked out by aliens from another dimension. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. (Despite this, Al would be the first to admit he was never seriously in the running due to behind-the-scenes politics; the gig eventually went to Katy Perry.) When Al said it was making fun of the fact that people had difficulty understanding Kurt's singing, he said “Oh, sure, of course, that’s funny.” He also hinted that a food-based parody of the song would be boring, especially considering that Al had done a lot of them in the past (and, coincidentally enough, an earlier food-based parody had been nixed for reasons relating to the message of the original). Though more of a stretch, singer and voice coach Lisa Popeil has done female backup vocals for Al since 1983. Songs where the guy's a TV addict who's watching shows he hates ('Can't Watch This', 'Couch Potato'). Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole. "One of Those Days" is about this. ", "You know, I'd never been on a real airplane before ... And the, I guess you know the Earth is gonna crash into the sun, You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, I was watching my TV one night when they broke in with a special report, About some devastating earthquake in Peru, There were thirty thousand crushed to death, even more were buried alive. Most of your favorite celebrities either studied acting in college or went straight from high school into a life of the arts. At the end of "Polka Power" Weird Al segues from the song "Closing Time" to a line, "bring us home!" "I Remember Larry" recounts how the singer was bullied (sometimes quite viciously and dangerously) and how he killed the bully. and "SN: What is the melting point of a gorilla's head?" The success of Mandatory Fun launched an online petition asking for Al to play the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show, which eventually gathered over 125,000 signatures. Bernie the hitchhiker in "Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota". Went meta with "White & Nerdy". The subject of "You're Pitiful" is a 42-year old example. "I Lost On Jeopardy": The music video takes place on a reproduced version of the 1964-75 set and features both Art Fleming and Don Pardo reprising their roles plus cameo appearances by band members, family members, Demento, and even the guy who sang the song Yankovic was parodying (Greg Kihn). the criminal who Frank opens the door on. "Mission Statement" is a very close style parody of. He has been involved with the Transformers franchise twice: his song "Dare To Be Stupid" was played in the 1986 movie, and he provided the voice of Wreck-Gar in Transformers Animated. At least one faction of gun nuts takes "Trigger Happy" literally. As a teenager, he became a fan of Los Angeles-based radio host Dr. Demento, known for playing wacky novelty songs. S/he. In "Jurassic Park", he only admits to being "kinda mad" about getting his guts torn out. Vanwege zijn bekendheid als artiest heeft hij ook al meerdere gastrollen gehad in films en televisieseries. “Good Old Days” is a sentimental reminiscence. "I Remember Larry" which has Larry being murdered by the target of many of his malicious gags, with the target making it sound like it was only another malicious gag. The entirety of "Nature Trail To Hell" is about a psychopath who murders a bunch of Cub Scouts (Boy Scouts between 5-12 years old) at a summer camp. However, this particular childhood involved torturing rats with hacksaws, burning down a corner store and brutally beating the shop owner, and taking a girl from highschool to a dance, and shaving her bald and abandoning her in the desert. "Jerry Springer", aside from the talking interlude in the bridge, is a, Following Prince's untimely death in 2016, Al took the high road, simply saying in a tweet that "the music world will miss his prolific genius. "Truck Drivin' Song" is, naturally, in the style of 70's country trucker songs, with Al's low voice sounding a bit like C.W. lyrics that directly insult the opposing team. TV-Themed List Songs ('The Brady Bunch' starts this way, 'Can't Watch This', 'Couch Potato', 'Syndicated Inc.', etc.). Can you match up the plays of Shakespeare with a hit single, which reflects one aspect of their plots? Ben Folds played piano on "Why Does This Always Happen To Me"... which is a parody of Ben Folds songs. Al agreed and plays the song only at his live shows. Biblioteca Nacional de España: XX4857300Gemeinsame Normdatei: 13456233XInternational Standard Name Identifier: 0000 0000 7826 6328Library of Congress Control Number: n85192173MusicBrainz: 7746d775-9550-4360-b8d5-c37bd448ce01Nationale Bibliotheek van Tsjechië: xx0083122Nederlandse Thesaurus van Auteursnamen Persoon ID: 07219989XTrove: 1572251Virtual International Authority File: 27145970052132250731 WorldCat Identities (via VIAF): 27145970052132250731, UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff, "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ultimate Collection, "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection. Al ordering onions on his cheeseburger in "Trapped in the Drive Thru". He wears a "homemade. Yankovic verkreeg zijn eerste lokale bekendheid als artiest via een radioprogramma genaamd “Dr. Similarly, "Albuquerque" - he saves it for the encore, as it wrecks his throat and makes it difficult for him to sing anything else afterward. 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