I wonder if anyone notices.
Music royalties are weird. Somebody that understood it way better than me explained it probably better than I will. From what I remember there is basically a performance, lyrics, and music portion. So when an artist covers a song they only get the performance part. The original artist gets the other two parts(assuming the music/lyrics weren’t written by somebody else). Since Al is redoing the lyrics he gets the performance and lyrics part but he’s still sticking money in the original artists pockets for the music portion. Most artists are plenty happy to have Al use one of their songs.
I haven’t exactly been to a large number of big concerts in my life, but still I have to say that Weird Al’s was the best. It was late 90s. He played every one of his hits in costume and nailed it every time. For the finale, he buried the front rows (I was in row 2) in fake bubble snow while playing Christmas at Ground Zero. It was gloriously ridiculous. 10/10 experience. Hardest working man in showbiz. UHF was a documentary. (I still haven’t seen the new movie. I really should get on that.)
The biopic? It’s good. Not as funny as it could have been, but Radcliffe is amazing and you learn many interesting facts about Al (like the steamy relationship with Madonna).
It was a goddamned masterpiece!
Agreed. I have no idea how someone says “not as funny as it could have been”. I rolled in laughter for the entire thing. Hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.
10/10 title
Al has used that joke himself on Xittter.
Oh. Someone did notice. How? You use your own font?
Apparently nobody noticed Michael Jackson is with a bunch of children either
No, I use context
Weird Al actually licenses the songs for parodying because free use is thin ice.
Most of Al’s music isn’t parody. Smells like Nirvana is one of very few that is, as the song Al writes is about the original work/artist
Amish paradise is another and probs my favourite of Al’s
Amish paradise is not a parody. Coolio actually had a case if he had sued.
AI didn’t steal nothing. SHITTY companies “think” they can replace people work with AI and Robots. And i hope them to fall miserably.
BTW. If a Parody is stealing, then all the art even created is stealing from what there was before.
Are those angel or children Jackson molested? I mean if it’s his heaven.
It may just be their hell.
Whew boy people ate the hell out of this onion.
I never really get the point they’re trying to make in these comic parodies (if there is any), which makes it less meaningful to me if people eat the onion.
They’re usually a parody of shitty Ben Garrison political cartoons, but artists are expected to crank out more and more content and this guy has found his niche. So you eventually start getting some that aren’t really a parody of anything; except maybe his own work. Although this one is specifically about parodies… I’m just gonna step away before this gets too meta.
It’s not the onions we eat that matters, but the onions grown along the way
If Al is so great why did he lose on Jeopardy?
He absolutely killed it on wheel of fortune* though.
*On game grumps
I believe ‘types of sauerkraut’ was one of the categories.
I have it on good authority Weird Al hates sauerkraut.
I know. He just couldn’t get the questions right.
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The video for Fat was awesome.
*LATEST FAD
Hang on. This ain’t a real Kelly, there’s no crying Statue of Liberty.
From the art, this looks like a verrrry early one. Must not have added it to the repertoire yet.
Its a day old.
Where are you seeing that? Not seeing this in the Onion recent queue.
Wild, thanks!
I can’t tell what the moral is without lady liberty crying.
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It’s the law that you can make fun of famous works of art for comedy, social commentary, parody, and just to make fun of them… Which is very interesting. It’s interesting that that was decided and made a law.
Jesters must have the freedom to mock the King.
If you think that creating entirely new lyrics to a song that are both coherent and also funny isn’t a talent, I’d like to hear your parody song. Oh not to mention actually playing an instrument and being able to sing well.
I write parody lyrics all the time, they are childish and incredibly vulgar.
Like the time I off the top of my head changed the lyrics to “I want to break free” to “I want to fuck Steve” and serenaded my buddy Steven. I made it through most of the song with it being pretty close.
I said “I need to write that down” and Steve was like “Nah, spontaneously that shit was funny. Writing it down would just make it weird” I was inclined to agree.
If you think this comic is true…
I hope Al sees this, because I think he’d think it’s hilarious.
On ther other hand, I hope that AI sees this.
Weird Al shared it on his birthday: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBenaUQS8U-/
Beautiful.
