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Okay honestly it didn't hit me how funny the concept of Weird Al's Even Worse album is until I found out they'd have gone on sale side by side.

"Hmmm, do I want Bad, or Even Worse?"

I feel sorry for people named Al (A L) because I see the name and briefly feel annoyance until I'm like, oh, that doesn't say AI

I know a guy named Al who is doing his best to own it with really dry humor. Sometimes he'll talk in a computer voice style.

Had a friend who changed her name, Alexa, to Alexis, specifically because she got tired of twitching whenever strangers yelled her name into their phones.

i REGULARLY think about people named Alexa and feel for them. like wtf was amazon thinking using an actual NAME. make some shit up that humans are probably not called. call that shit Blortblast. name it some Hitchhiker's shit, not a person's NAME when you know they'll gotta deal w/that

“As you should.” alright dont get sassy with me now

spotify: hey weird al, we super appreciate you recording a video for your top listeners this year. you made us look good right?

weird al: :)

spotify: ...right?

The thing re Weird Al that I think is worth recognizing is illustrated by the Spike Jones Jr quote “One of the things that people don’t realize about Dad’s kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.“ It’s like really good parody has to do it all backwards and in heels, and Weird Al gets in there and counts the syllables and pours over the phrasing and word choices so that it all sounds precisely like the original, and then re-records the song, acknowledging the tiniest details of the recording, and also makes it a highly detailed spoof of an adjacent and absurdly unrelated piece of popular culture. I think really good parody has a love for the source materiel that’s impossible to fake. It takes real musicianship (or craft) to do and it usually gets tossed aside as “novelty” recording.

You gotta be fuckin’ good if you want to fuck it up.

Al will also try to reuse the original music video sets if they’re available, and bring back the same background actors.

I assure you, in the music industry, Weird Al is highly respected. If he makes a parody of your song it’s acknowledged that it means you have ‘made it’ as an artist. Rappers have commented on how ‘scary good’ at rapping he is. His range is right up there with Danny Elfman in terms of how incredibly huge it is. Accordion players have commented that he’s insane on the accordion, and does it while jumping around on stage, I may add. He learns from his mistakes and to top it all off he’s a really kind man (I’ve met him).

In this house we salute Weird Al.

Do we all know what week it is? Weird Al and George do. #BannedBooksWeek

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(Photo by the lovely and talented Amanda Palmer, archer supreme.)

It is that time of the year again. Weird Al and George RR Martin and some weird English bloke who used to write some comic book say READ BANNED BOOKS. READ BANNED COMICS.  And support your libraries.

I thank you.

Do we all know what week it is? Weird Al and George do. #BannedBooksWeek

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Amish Paradise - “Weird Al” Yankovic

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