Will "Weird Al" Yankovic Apologize for These Songs?

Hollywood In Toto ^ | April 29, 2019 | Christian Toto

[EEGator]

I’m going to drive to Lancaster tomorrow and tell the Stoltzfus clan...

[Ciaphas Cain]

Al released “Craigslist” in the summer of 2009 as an iTunes download. It appeared two years later on his Alpocalypse album.

[Kommodor]

I actually went to see UHF in the theater when it first came out.

It was glorious.

The theater was mostly empty.

(sigh)

It was still fun, though.

“Don’t you know the Dewey Decimal System?!”

[a fool in paradise]

>>Freedom of thought is the lifeblood of comedy; it has always - for centuries or even millennia - been the enemy of “communist” leaders.

The Left cries that Bill Gaines, publisher of MAD, was red-baiting and playing on hysteria when he published his response to censorship calls from presidential hopeful Estes Kefauver and Dr. Frederic Wertham...

It ran on the inside cover of all of Gaines' EC Comics that month, not just MAD.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Thanks for the link, I just binged on Weird Al videos and haven’t laughed that hard in ages.

[a fool in paradise]

>>But, I don’t want to hear Katy Perry’s trash even with funny lyrics.

Same as it’s always been.

Homer and Jethro ran up against this in the 60s as well

Winchester Cathedral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a__tjdjrErU

Winchester cathedral
you’re drivin’ me mad
I don’t know who sings it
but it’s mighty sad

I’ll really be glad when
this song disappears
it set music back now
at least fifty years

Now everyone knows
just how much we needed a hit
and now that it’s done all i say
i hope that the world is ready for it

winchester cathedral
you’re doin’ me dirt
they finally wrote one
that we couldn’t hurt...

[Fledermaus]

Missed that one. Hilarious. I can’t even remember the song hes spoofing.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

This one article is more offensive than all of Weird Al’s music combined.

[dfwgator]

I like this Weird Al Original

Sports Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGbqGkS1c2w

[Category Four]

Two of his more recent ones I like:

Word Crimes Yeah, it's a parody of Blurred Lines, but it's a wonderful grammar tutorial.

Mission Statement His take on business jargon, set to a pitch-perfect tune of Crosby, Stills, and Nash's "Carry On" and "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes."

[OrangeHoof]

This all started when gays got the Dire Straits’ song “Money For Nothing” banned from Canadian airwaves.

The mega-hit song contained the verse:

“You see that little faggot with the earring and the make-up?
Yeah buddy, that’s his own hair.
That little faggot’s got his own jet airplane.
That little faggot, he’s a millionaire...”

Surprisingly, the original words are available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tTmpzfyChw
The song was meant as a mockery of people who do grunt jobs and don’t understand the lifestyles of musicians. In the video, the appliance mover is critical of the fame and fortune of musicians. It has nothing to do with homosexuals other than the stereotyping of skinny strung-out rock musicians like the Rolling Stones and what they must do in their spare time.

“Money For Nothing” was a hit in 1985. The outrage over the lyrics didn’t begin until the late 1990s. Now, if the song is aired in any public setting, that verse will be edited out. Surprisingly, the original

[OddLane]

I like his original work.

Don't Download This Song

[dfwgator]

Trapped In the Drive-Thru, which is a parody of R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet” is a classic.

[Category Four]

Hey thanks to you both, that’s some good stuff.

[OddLane]

I love his music, even though I'm more of a Rucka Rucka fan now.

Still, he's an incredibly talented musician, and a staple of my childhood.

Skipper Dan

[Califreak]

And most of the artists love it.

If your song is big enough for the Weird Al treatment you’re making good coin.

[caww]

Cute story..... I was at a club when Al walked up next to us and my friend just erupted it was him. When she saw I wasn't impressed in the least, and while he was still standing there, she said excitedly "Don't you know who this is!"...I said "Well No I don't"....She followed with ....."this is Weird Al Yankovic"..I said "Ok but I still don't know who he is"......Needless to say at that point ol Al walked away with his buddies. He wasn't exactly an impressive individual to meet as I saw it.....and still isn't.

[Califreak]

This one is fun for Dylan fans:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQDzj6R3p4

[dfwgator]

Classic AL TV “Interview” with Eminem (who refused to let Al parody his song)

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

[Yaelle]

Weird Al has nothing to apologize for! And White and Nerdy is like the funniest song / video ever made by humans.