/r/weirdal
This is the (unofficial) place for all fans of the lyrical genius, poetic wordsmith, and performer extraordinaire, "Weird Al" Yankovic. Please post all of your Al musings, tchotchkes, and gewgaws here.
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Post Flair Guidelines
As you know, post flairs have been added to the subreddit and will soon be mandatory. This is a guide to each of the post flairs available to use.
- Discussion: Starting a discussion about something. Can also be used for a question intended to start a discussion.
- Question: Asking a question with the intent to get an answer. Questions intending more to start a discussion than get an answer should use Discussion.
- Picture: An image related to Al, for example, a detail in a music video. Memes should use Joke/Meme; sharing something Al posted to social media should use Posted by Al.
- Video: A video related to Al. If you're posting a song, by Al or not, use Song.
- Song: A video of a song, can be a song by Al, original of a parody, third-party music/lyric video, etc.
- Suggestion: A suggestion for the subreddit.
- Joke/Meme: A joke or meme related to Al. Pictures that aren't exactly a joke or meme but still intended to have comedic effect can use this flair, but non-comedic pictures should use Picture. Anything posted originally by Al should use Posted by Al.
- Article: An article posted by or about Al.
- Posted by Al: Anything that was shared by Al on his social media. This should take precedence over other applicable flairs, such as Picture and Joke/Meme.
- Other: Any post that doesn't fit very well into any of the other categories. Note that per Rule 1, your post should still be related to Al in some way.
Al related Links
- Weirdal.com
- Personal Youtube Channel
- VEVO Youtube Channel
- Reddit AMA (#1)
- Reddit AMAA (#2)
- Reddit AMA w/ Portugal. The Man
- WOWAY (Forums)
2022 Tour
The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent Ill-Advised Vanity Tour has officially been announced! APRIL 26 - OCTOBER 29, 2022 Opening act by Emo Philips
More info can be found on the announcement post here. This section will up updated in a few days.
Tournaments
To be pedantic...
Technically, most of Al's work doesn't actually count as parody. By legal definition, to be a parody, a song (or other work) but directly mock the source. That means songs like "Smells Like Nirvana" and "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long" are parodies, but "White and Nerdy", "Fat", "Can't Watch This", and so on don't count. Instead, most "parodies" actually fall under the categories of pastiche or satire.
A pastiche is similar in concept to a parody but celebrates, rather than mocks, the source, like an homage. It is included with parody as fair use in UK copyright law,[1] but I could not find specific details for the US.
In satire, a work is used to mock something else, unrelated to the original. For example, Al using "American Pie" to mock Star Wars in "The Saga Begins" is satire because the subject of mockery isn't related to the original song. Satire isn't covered under the US fair use doctrine.[2]
References
[1]: Parody & Pastiche - Copyright User
[2]: Fair use or not? Parody vs. satire in copyright law - David Lizerbram & Associates
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Wrong song title
I could have sworn this song was called prank phone calls not phony calls ? Mandela effect ?
10:11 UTC
The Night Santa Went Crazy
How many non super fans realize that it’s a pastiche of “Mama I’m Coming Home” by Ozzy?
04:08 UTC
Smells like Teen spirit but every other beat is Smells Like Nirvana (Working on it)
So I was on youtube listening to one of those "[song] but every other beat is [weird al's parody of said song]" videos on youtube and I searched for one for Smells Like Nirvana, because I couldn't find it I decided to make one myself using Fl Studio, still in the first minute splicing the two songs together, I decided to go with the parody first then the original but which version you think would sound better? the original first or the parody first?
18:01 UTC
Al on the Tonight Show singing "One More Minute"
03:50 UTC
What a “Weird” cake
04:02 UTC
Al-bum For New Listeners Day 10: Running With Scissors
It looks like everything you know is RIGHT, because you all chose "Everything You Know Is Wrong" as the track to beat from Bad Hair Day! I'm excited to see which song is chosen from the first Al-bum to feature his 25 year old "new" look, Running With Scissors! I won't need my horoscope for today to tell me which song will be picked- you all will be deciding soon enough! Grab ahold of your lucky, lucky autographed glow-in-the-dark snorkel, put down the pizza and beer, and let this saga begin!
03:53 UTC
Can anyone find the clip of Al performing One More Minute on The Tonight Show?
There are a lot of articles saying it happened, but the video seems to have been taken down.
03:42 UTC
Thought of y'all :3
03:30 UTC
Glazed doughnuts! Yummy!!
00:57 UTC
Thingy I made for class :3
06:25 UTC
So which one was it again?
02:47 UTC
Brother and I are having a UHF movie night and are adequately prepared. (Out of frame: rhubarb pie.)
01:13 UTC
I've a question
I've been making a personal playlist for a while and I'm adding some songs from a Medium Rarities playlist and there's some I don't see Al taking part in. If anyone can clarify, I'd love that. The songs in question:
Selected Readings from Oak Mot, Pt. 4 - Crispin Glover
Time - Ben Folds
I Melt With You - Richard Cheese
My Space - Evelyn Evelyn
Long Long Dream - Caspar Babypants
16:01 UTC
Stephen Jay - Hungry Target
23:46 UTC
Picture of Al voting
11:14 UTC
A short clip of “Amish Paradise” from the Weird Pals gig this Halloween
Featuring Eric Slick! Follow us on Instagram @weirdpalsmusic. Hoping to take this gig on the road soon…
05:37 UTC
How much does fat Alfred weigh?
Here are some facts:
- Fat Alfred is of an enormous size. He says that "...all by myself I'm a crowd" and that he takes up seven rows in the cinema, which means that the size depicted in the music video is unrealistically small;
- "The pavement cracks when I fall down": I'm not into physics and I won't even try to count that but you need to be really fat to be able to do that;
- He can be measured on Richter's scale (a measure of the strength of earthquakes): Let's say he's on a light (causing "noticeable shaking of indoor objects and rattling noises", "felt by most people in the affected area; slightly felt outside") to moderate level ("can cause damage of varying severity to poorly constructed buildings");
- The line "down at the beach I'm a lucky man; I'm the only one who gets a tan" probably suggests that Al is so big he takes up an entire beach (or causes tsunami by the power of his splashes, causing people to escape, which imo would be much funnier);
- His shadow weighs 42 pounds, or 19 kg. It is technically impossible, but it might suggest that his weight is so enormously bug it breaks the laws of physics.
The answer? I don't know. What do you think?
05:38 UTC
Favorite Song
My favorite Weird Al song is "Everything You Know is Wrong" is this a bad song, or is it a good favorite?
20:06 UTC
Maybe in Albuquerque
09:53 UTC
Website that was up for a short time in late 1999 or early 2000 with photos of Al taken with a disposable camera by someone who seemed to be very close to him
Does anyone know what I’m talking about? Whose site was that?
05:31 UTC
Old hALloween decorations
Better late than never 🤷 Here’s blacklight skellie Weird Al performing in my Danse Macabre yard haunt from a few years ago.
05:07 UTC
Al-bum For New Listeners Day 9: Bad Hair Day
Since I've been gone our next track has been chosen! It looks like Frank not only has a 2000" TV; he also has a spot on our roster!
This time, let's detangle the 1996 Al-bum, Bad Hair Day! Don't call in sick; you can vote for your song of choice from the comfort of your own home! Unless, of course, you shun fancy things like electricity.
04:44 UTC
What a deluxe version of The Food Album would look like. Do you guys think that Al would not want to have Trapped In The Drive-Thru included?
22:49 UTC
that peepl mok u onliiiiiiiiiiiiiine
Give me some of the worst Word Crimes that you've seen.
22:00 UTC
9 year old requested a weird al party - pin the mustache on Al game created!
13:21 UTC
I FOUND THIS IN THE STORE FOR $10 AUD
I AM SO HAPPY !!!
08:43 UTC
Album Recommendations
Hey all,
I've just recently started exploring Weird Al's discography, and have already picked up the UK Blu-Ray for UHF (which is weirdly hard to find) and Running with Scissors.
What should I get next?
Update 1 - I've just found an MP3 rip of the Medium Rarities collection from the Squeeze Box set, so I might burn a CD for the collection.
Update 2 - I've added the Ultimate Video Collection DVD to the collection.
23:04 UTC
NEW WEIRD AL SONG!!!!!
https://open.spotify.com/track/01mekORMNWuRYdKXL14JU7?si=WzNR2eI1TYGKzCNSvyvcPw
"New Year’s Eve Polka 5-4-3-2-1,” for the album "Holiday Seasonig" made by Jimmy Fallon has been realesed and Weird Al made a song for the album
Happy new year everyone
06:16 UTC