But the reaction was great, so that gave me a little bit more confidence that maybe I can pull off some of these larger rock festivals and hopefully not get pelted. But I figured that's not really a pelting kind of audience.īut I played the Bamboozle festival in New Jersey a few years ago and I was on right before My Chemical Romance- I didn't know if that was gonna fly. A few years later I broke that rule and I went on tour opening for the Monkees. Weird Al and Coolio famously feuded after Al released a parody of Coolio’s 1995 hit ‘Gangsta Paradise’ called ‘Amish Paradise.’ Weird Al Yankovic paid tribute to fellow musician Coolio. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. That ranks him among the likes of Madonna and Michael Jackson, who have, of course, each received the Weird Al treatment (Like a Surgeon, Eat It). He’s one of only five music acts to have a Top 40 hit in each of the last four decades. Not only that, but one of my favourite Weird Al parodies. Yankovic long ago outlasted many of the musicians he’s parodied. WAY: I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. Headline News p 1994 CD Scotti Brothers / 72392 78011-2 Add issue 3 Reviews drakkar Once again, that guy from 'Eight Is Enough' makes an appearance in a Weird Al videoclip, only this time Al ups the ante with Pat Sajak. The other songs included are Gump, Headline News, and a parody of Dire Straights Money for Nothing that features the real Mark Knopfler on guitar and. Pitchfork: I noticed you don't do too many music festivals, but I feel like you'd go over pretty well at a lot of them. But, otherwise, I generally don't do older songs. WAY: I would probably do it if I was able to match it with a subject matter that was more timely. Pitchfork: Would you ever do a Pixies parody? I think it'd be hipper for me to do just a straight cover of a Pixies song." Then she said, "Well, would you like to sing it with the Pixies?" I'm like, "Yes!" That was such a thrill. Violet, Frank's wife, asked if I wanted to be part of his show and if I wanted to do a parody of a Pixies song. Later in the tour, he changed it to reference Paris Hilton’s DUI and imprisonment, and her subsequent interview on Larry King Live.WAY: That was definitely one of the high points of my life. Once there was this kid who Took a trip to Singapore. Yankovic’s Straight Outta Lynwood concert tour contained new lyrics as part of a parody medley, referencing Britney Spears, dealing with her 2007 head-shaving shock and underpants-less limousine trip in late 2006. You can torture me with Donnie and Marie You can play Headline News. The band then hid the instruments until the end of the song, when they took them out and played them this “came as a big surprise to” Yankovic. Reportedly, during one of the performances, Ellen Reid, backing vocalist and keyboardist for the Crash Test Dummies, went out and purchased kazoos. It is a parody of the Crash Test Dummies s alternative. Roberts and the band also performed the song with Yankvoic twice once on Canada’s MuchMusic channel and another time at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. Next single Amish Paradise (1996)Headline News is a parody song by Weird Al Yankovic. Plus he gets half the earnings and that helps me make money. He later noted that, “People assume that I was annoyed but when does a parody of you, you know you’ve made it.” He later praised the way Yankovic interacted with the artists that he parodies, noting that “Weird Al goes the whole route and cultivates a relationship with the artist. In this 1994 parody, Yankovic takes on the Crash Test Dummies’s 1993 hit “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” with a song that references 3 different huge stories that broke the news during the recording of this song.īrad Roberts, the original songwriter for “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” was extremely pleased with the parody, and found it humorous.
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