AOL.com Article - Weird Al Yankovic: New album mocks Iggy Azalea, Lorde & more sounds like it could be fun. He also may retire after this one. Plus he is 54! God I feel old now.
He stated that he isn't retiring, just might not release another album. He is looking into releasing songs here and there online instead of album format. Chuck
He's 54? Further proof that you don't age when you have fun. Heard the parody of Happy and Blurred Lines. Not bad.
Yeah, he's releasing a new single each day for 8 days. Tacky on Monday, and Word Crimes yesterday. I read he has a parody of Daft Punk's Get Lucky coming. So far, so good! Word Crimes was a lot of fun.
I find his parodies to be better than the real songs. I'll never listen to Daft Punk or Pharrell (I'm so bloody sick of Happy), or anybody else he parodies on the new album, but I will listen to Weird Al!
The whole album is a lot of fun. Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' is not parodied, but is included in the traditional polka medley, wherein Al takes bits of a bunch of (in this case, 11) popular song, and sets them to polka music. "Word Crimes" is certainly my favorite parody, and the Foo Fighters-ish "My Own Eyes" is my favorite of his original. The video for 'Tacky' was a nice one-take video. This just in: The video for Foil is up. While not my favorite song on the album (I think he should have done the bridge and another chorus), Patton Oswalt's presence and the second verse make this video a winner.
Dave Grohl totally needs to do a performance with Weird Al on that song. That guitar riff is totally Slither from Velvet Revolver, isn't it?
I love it when Al introduces me to a new band. After listening to this song and finding out about SCOTS, I appreciate it even more, and have been listening to more of SCOTS as well.
Can't wait to get this. Al is my favorite musical artist ever, and yes, it's fairly common for his parodies to be better than the originals. Only issue is I am so out of touch with current music (maybe it's the cynical old man in me, but 99% of current music sounds like complete garbage) that on his last 2-3 albums I have been completely unfamiliar with whoever he's parodying. I have never heard any of the songs he's parodying on Mandatory Fun, which takes away a bit of the humor, but his clever songwriting typically makes up for it. I'm not kidding, I've never heard of Happy or Blurred Lines in my life.
I've only heard the polka and Word Crimes, but I'm probably going to pick up the album from FYE or somewhere similar tomorrow when I'm at the mall because it's Weird freakin' Al and memorable things always happen whenever I get my hands on one of his albums (which the first one I got - Bad Hair Day - is a story in of itself )
