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with new music by "Weird Al" Yankovic "Amish Paradise" Bad Hair Day (1996) The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic (2009) Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) (rerecorded version) Parody of "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio feat. LV (which is a reworking of the Stevie Wonder song "Pastime Paradise").
"Fat" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of "Bad" by Michael Jackson and is Yankovic's second parody of a Jackson song, the first being "Eat It", a parody of Jackson's "Beat It". "Fat" is the first song on Yankovic's Even Worse album. The video won a Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video in 1988. [1]
Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (/ ˈ j æ ŋ k ə v ɪ k / ⓘ YANG-kə-vik; [2] born October 23, 1959) is an American comedy musician, writer, and actor. He is best known for writing and performing comedy songs that often parody specific songs by contemporary musicians.
"Dare to Be Stupid" is an original song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a musical pastiche of the band Devo . [ 1 ] Released as the flipside to " The Touch ", the song was included in the soundtrack for The Transformers: The Movie and is his most popular original song.
"Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D followed in February 1984. It peaked at number 17 on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum by the RIAA, [ 5 ] [ 7 ] while also charting in Australia and Canada. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The album's lead single " Eat It " was a commercial success, topping the Australian singles chart and also reaching the top 15 in Canada ...
The song was written by Alfred "Weird Al" Yankovic in 1979, when he was a student at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo, California.. In the late 1970s, Alfred "Weird Al" Yankovic, was a student at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo, California, and in his spare time, he was a DJ for the university's radio station, KCPR.
Is it time for "Weird Al" Yankovic to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Since the 65-year-old parody musician's career began in the 1970s, he's earned legitimate hits, won five Grammy ...
During its first week of release, "Whatever You Like" reached #4 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Chart. [5] The song has also garnered over 13 million listens on YouTube [ 6 ] as of April 2012, and over 2.6 million listens on MySpace.