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Weezer released a music video of their "Africa" cover in September 2018, styled as a parody of the video for their earlier single "Undone – The Sweater Song." Stand-ins for the band members perform the song on a soundstage, with "Weird Al" Yankovic replacing singer/guitarist Rivers Cuomo, with his band members replacing Weezer. Yankovic had ...
Weezer's "Africa" arrived in 2018 after a 14-year-old fan wrote on social media, "@RiversCuomo it's about time you bless the rains down in Africa," prompting the band to record a version of the ...
"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.
The Fray, who toured with Weezer in 2005, played a cover version of this song live during 2007 touring. [35] Bloodhound Gang covered it with a mix of Wu-Tang Clan 's "Ain't Nuttin To F Wit". Punk rock band Titus Andronicus have covered the song multiple times on various tours; the band included one of these live covers on their mixtape , Titus ...
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 musician, writer, and actor. He is best known for writing and performing comedy songs that often parody specific songs by contemporary musicians.
“Weird Al” Yankovic: I wanted to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of my last album by doing a medley of what I thought were a dozen of the biggest songs of the last 10 years. I just kind of ...
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 Yankovic [1] Original song. 1988 "Fat" Jay Levey [1] Parody of "Bad" by Michael Jackson: 1989 "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" Parody of "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits "UHF" Original song, lead single on the soundtrack for "Weird Al"'s feature film UHF: 1992 "Smells Like Nirvana" Parody of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana