Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning

Waxy ^ | October 2, 2023 | Andy Baio

[Ciaphas Cain]

AI has crossed a terrible, terrible line.

[Ciaphas Cain]

This might interest you.

[Olog-hai]

The Arrows released I Love Rock ’N’ Roll in 1975. Weird Al was 16 in 1975 . . . plausible that he composed I Love Rocky Road back then, without Dr. Demento’s encouragement, and somehow Alan Merrill and Jake Hooker, both British musicians, happened upon this remarkable event, having somehow traveled from Chelsea in London all the way to Lynwood, California?

[Big Red Badger]

Dare to be Stupid !
My Fav !

[LegendHasIt]

I can’t think of any Weird Al song that I don’t prefer to the ‘original(?)’. Even without the comedy, the guy has a great voice and is a great musician IMHO

[crusty old prospector]

Weird Al’s lyrics still roll through my head instead of Madonna, Queen, MJ, etc.

[dangus]

LOL! When my son was seven years old, he swore that Nirvanna stole from Wierd Al. He was adamant. I had to show him that the wierd Al song was called, “Smells like Nirvana.”

[drwoof]

Same here. We’re pretty lucky, no? A different, and more wonderful, time.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

To his credit, Kurt Cobain actually laughed off the parody. Other people like Coolio were livid though. Al wanted to do a parody of Lose Yourself by Eminem and was told no. A lot of the artists didn’t like Al.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Don McLean heard his kids play Weird Al’s “The Saga Begins” so many times that it was making him almost mess up whenever he performed “American Pie”.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Eminem allowed Al to parody “Lose Yourself”. Al’s version “Couch Potato” is the first song on the Poodle Hat album. What Eminem didn’t allow though was a parody video. Al regretted that, he said it could have been one of his best videos ever. But he honored Eminem’s request.

[discostu]

Al even used the same video director, word is Kurt gave him the number.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Pinging you two (and I got Laz’s name right this time :-)

[crusty old prospector]

Nothing better than a parody. Like the Bee.

[mountainlion]

I want him to do a song “look what they did to my thong, mom”

[WoofDog123]

Al said Cobain arranged for them to have the whole set from the original video, access to original actors, etc. not sure he ever got that degree of cooperation from anyone else.

[dangus]

Actually, I’ve seen and heard many times that Wierd Al is very careful to make sure people are OK with his parody. Coolio was an exception; his label said yes without checking with him.

[dfwgator]

Weird Al is one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to. He had a pretty good band backing him up.

[dfwgator]

“You know what I’m sayin’?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QOya9-lwQk

[P.O.E.]

I grew up on MAD magazine’s song parodies - starting from the early 1960s