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"Weird Al" Yankovic in 2003 "Weird Al" Yankovic is a multiple Grammy Award -winning American musician, satirist , parodist , accordionist , director , television producer, and author. He is known in particular for humorous songs which make fun of popular culture or parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts, or both.
In 1989, Yankovic starred in a full-length feature film, co-written by himself and manager Jay Levey, and filmed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called UHF.A satire of the television and film industries, also starring Michael Richards, Fran Drescher, and Victoria Jackson, it brought floundering studio Orion their highest test scores since the movie RoboCop. [3]
"White & Nerdy" is the second single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood, which was released in 2006. It parodies the song " Ridin' " by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone . The song both satirizes and celebrates nerd culture, as recited by the subject, who cannot "roll with the gangstas " because he is "just too white and nerdy ".
Songs written by "Weird Al" Yankovic (46 P) Pages in category "Songs with lyrics by "Weird Al" Yankovic" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
Squeeze Box collects all of Yankovic's 14 studio albums, ranging from his 1983 debut "Weird Al" Yankovic, to his 2014 studio release Mandatory Fun.Six of these records (viz. "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D, Dare to Be Stupid, Polka Party!, Even Worse, UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff) were produced by Rick Derringer. [5]
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Al Shipley of Stylus gave the album a "B−" and felt that, while "White & Nerdy" was a solid parody, the other spoofs on the album were not quite up to par. He praised "Pancreas" and "Virus Alert" as the album's best style parodies, comparing the latter to the 1985 single " Dare to Be Stupid ", while criticizing "I'll Sue Ya", "Close but No ...
[1] [6] The final two songs—"The White Stuff" and "Taco Grande"—were taken from the 1992 album Off the Deep End. [1] [7] Notable for its absence is "Girls Just Want to Have Lunch", from Dare to Be Stupid (1985). According to Yankovic, this is due to the fact there is a "royalty ceiling" on the albums and he needed to pick one song to cut ...