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Weird Al has been relevant longer than most artists he parodied. Its going to be sad day when somebody finally milkshakeducks him and we find out he plays like Sea of Theives and is racist against italians.
Absolute legend. He certainly didn't invent musical comedy, but he's a paragon of the genre and has brought it into the public eye like no one else.
I always thought if the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame ever pulls their head out of their collective ass and inducts him, it would be a fantastic tribute for all the living artists he's parodied to perform his version of their song.
Once in awhile, maybe you will feel the urge
To break international copyright law
By downloading MP3s from file-sharing sites
Like Morpheus, or Grokster, or LimeWire, or Kazaa
But deep in your heart, you know the guilt would drive you mad
And the shame would leave a permanent scar
'Cause you start out stealing songs, then you're robbing liquor stores
And selling crack and running over school kids with your car!
So don't download this song
The record store's where you belong
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should
Oh, don't download this song!
Oh, you don't want to mess with the R-I-double-A
They'll sue you if you burn that CD-R
It doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a seven-year-old girl
They'll treat you like the evil, hard bitten, criminal scum you are!
So don't download this song
Don't go pirating music all day long
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should
Oh, don't download this song!
Don't take away money
From artists just like me
How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee?
And diamond-studded swimming pools
These things don't grow on trees
So all I ask is everybody please…
Don't download this song (don't do it, no, no)
Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong (you can just ask him)
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should (you really should)
Oh, don't download this song!
Don't download this song (oh, please don't you do it or you)
Might wind up in jail like Tommy Chong (remember Tommy)
Go and buy the CD (right now)
Like you know that you should (go out and buy it)
Oh, don't download this song
Don't download this song (no, no, no, no, no, no)
Or you'll burn in hell before too long (and you deserve it)
Go and buy the CD (just buy it)
Like you know that you should (you cheap bastard)!
Back in the days before streaming I had a large folder of Weird Al stuff including stuff that was mistagged because it was a funny song that sounded like it could be him.
No it was the bonus content to the poodle hat enhanced CD, the one where he shows home videos of him being gifted reams of notebook paper at birthdays and holidays.
It's been literal decades since I saw it, but it's stuck in my memory. I guess there's a chance that it was satire, but it didn't seem like it to middle school me.
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ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com · 149 pts · 245d
Weird Al is just a cool dude.
Here's him joining in a cover of Killing In The Name Of from a month ago, if anyone hasn't seen it: https://youtu.be/COZcKrUx1Ts
SpaceRanger13@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 244d
One of those rare cases where meeting a hero might not be so bad
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 244d
Al screaming fuck you I won't do what you tell me is pretty righteous.
JohnnyRico@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d
He's cool and, probably, also very smart
X@piefed.world · 98 pts · 245d
Based af weird al
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 44 pts · 245d
He knows it's always been all about the Pentiums baby.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works MOD · 85 pts · 245d
Please provide an archive link to this tweet. Anyone can help out and do this. You all have an hour. Archive.is is a good one.
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de · 81 pts · 245d
Original, Archive
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world · 43 pts · 245d
Thank you.
TWeaK@lemmy.today · 24 pts · 244d
https://xcancel.com/alyankovic/status/1588719949748776961 - a live link to a twitter mirror, which includes replies, instead of an archive.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world · 48 pts · 245d
Sorry, forgot about the public figure rule.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 245d
No worries, it looks like you have a lot of people willing to help out.
Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 40 pts · 244d
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 243d
lol, it took everyone like 20 minutes. I also had to leave.
big_slap@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 245d
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AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com · 52 pts · 245d
The hero we need and the hero we deserve.
Klear@quokk.au · 25 pts · 245d
The good kind of Al generated content.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 244d
I also thought "AI" at very first. AI vs Al
superduperenigma@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
Or "A1" if you're the fucking Secretary of Education for the most embarrassing administration in US history.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 245d
This means Weird Al cannot complain about the ways i aquired his albums as a teenager.
corvi@piefed.social · 105 pts · 245d
He made a song that named several popular music sharing sites while mocking industry greed eons ago. He 100% supports your actions.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 245d
Weird Al is just happy if people are listening.
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub · 62 pts · 245d
It seems to be working. He’s been relevant since long before I was born and I’m old as fuck
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 245d
Weird Al has been relevant longer than most artists he parodied. Its going to be sad day when somebody finally milkshakeducks him and we find out he plays like Sea of Theives and is racist against italians.
grue@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 244d
Weird Al is right up there with folks like Mr. Rogers and Levar Burton.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 244d
and dolly parton.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 242d
TIL that word is so popular that it even has its own Wikipedia page, yet I haven't even heard of the term.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 245d
Right? It's weird to think he gained popularity in the 70s.
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 244d
Absolute legend. He certainly didn't invent musical comedy, but he's a paragon of the genre and has brought it into the public eye like no one else.
I always thought if the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame ever pulls their head out of their collective ass and inducts him, it would be a fantastic tribute for all the living artists he's parodied to perform his version of their song.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 32 pts · 244d
Don’t Download This Song
Once in awhile, maybe you will feel the urge
To break international copyright law
By downloading MP3s from file-sharing sites
Like Morpheus, or Grokster, or LimeWire, or Kazaa
But deep in your heart, you know the guilt would drive you mad
And the shame would leave a permanent scar
'Cause you start out stealing songs, then you're robbing liquor stores
And selling crack and running over school kids with your car!
So don't download this song
The record store's where you belong
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should
Oh, don't download this song!
Oh, you don't want to mess with the R-I-double-A
They'll sue you if you burn that CD-R
It doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a seven-year-old girl
They'll treat you like the evil, hard bitten, criminal scum you are!
So don't download this song
Don't go pirating music all day long
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should
Oh, don't download this song!
Don't take away money
From artists just like me
How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee?
And diamond-studded swimming pools
These things don't grow on trees
So all I ask is everybody please…
Don't download this song (don't do it, no, no)
Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong (you can just ask him)
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should (you really should)
Oh, don't download this song!
Don't download this song (oh, please don't you do it or you)
Might wind up in jail like Tommy Chong (remember Tommy)
Go and buy the CD (right now)
Like you know that you should (go out and buy it)
Oh, don't download this song
Don't download this song (no, no, no, no, no, no)
Or you'll burn in hell before too long (and you deserve it)
Go and buy the CD (just buy it)
Like you know that you should (you cheap bastard)!
stsquad@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 245d
Back in the days before streaming I had a large folder of Weird Al stuff including stuff that was mistagged because it was a funny song that sounded like it could be him.
FryHyde@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 244d
Schfifty-five
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 245d
Weird was never in it for the money.
nomy@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 244d
I feel like he got "fuck you" money a long time ago if he ever was in it for that.
zerofk@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 244d
That’s weird.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 244d
you recorded them to cassette whenever you heard them on the radio so you could make a mix tape for your friends right?
right?
please don't make me depressed by saying anything else T_T
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 244d
Pressed play and record baby. I gotcha.
ibelieveinthehousehippo@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 244d
Damn that mother fuckin' DJ talking over the end of the track
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 244d
Weird Al is the biggest fucking Chad I swear. He's gotta have a 64 inch dick.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 243d
With 100TBs of RAM too
Bumblpie@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 244d
discocactus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d
Both names of songs of his actually.
Bumblpie@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 244d
ibelieveinthehousehippo@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 244d
His power obviously comes from his majestic hair
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 33 pts · 245d
Shiver me timbers, I buy that ther lad a pint of the finest rum the high seas has to offer.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 244d
In if my favorites from him is “don’t download this song”
“You’ll burn in hell before too long “
“And you deserve it!”
“go and buy the cd-“
“Go out and buy it, you cheap bastard!”
“-and don’t download this song”
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 244d
Which was only available as a download XD
otacon239@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 243d
Also was on the Straight Outta Lynwood album.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 244d
You might wind up in jail like Tommy Chong
Aeao@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 244d
Remember Tommy!
SpaceRanger13@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 245d
ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 244d
if there is good in the world it would bless us with spaceballs 3: the search for spaceballs 2 and uhf 2 in the same year.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 8 pts · 244d
That's really good. He should be a comedian or something.
fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org · 6 pts · 245d
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 244d
There is something about that tweet right at the edge of understanding. Almost subliminal in nature.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · -1 pts · 244d
This is a far cry from the weird al who looked into my would and said that anyone illegally downloading his music was a Hooligan! 😐
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 2 pts · 243d
If you refer to "Don't Download This Song", I'm pretty sure that song was satire, given that it was only available as a download.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 243d
No it was the bonus content to the poodle hat enhanced CD, the one where he shows home videos of him being gifted reams of notebook paper at birthdays and holidays.
It's been literal decades since I saw it, but it's stuck in my memory. I guess there's a chance that it was satire, but it didn't seem like it to middle school me.
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 2 pts · 243d
I don't know that one, but even if it was serious back then, I'd say he has changed by now
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 242d
Most definitely!