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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.
Off the Deep End is the seventh studio album by the American parody musician "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1992.This album was the first album self-produced by Yankovic, after six albums with Rick Derringer.
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.
"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 ".
Over the years “Weird Al” had great success covering Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” as 1984’s “Eat It,” Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” as 1985’s “Like A Surgeon,” and ...
[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 ...
In 1984, his second album, “Weird Al” Yankovic in 3-D was released, with the first single being a parody of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” entitled “Eat It.” The single and its music ...
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 ...