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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.
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.
The music featured on the album span Yankovic's release in the 1980s, with the earliest songs being recorded in 1983, and the most recent song being recorded in 1988. [1] Yankovic's 1983 debut album is represented solely by "Ricky". [1] [2] Both "Eat It" and "I Lost on Jeopardy" were taken from Yankovic's 1984 release "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D.
“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 ...
Best Concept Music Video [31] Grammy Awards nominations 1994 "Jurassic Park" Best Music Video, Short Form: 2011 "Perform This Way" Best Music Video, Short Form: Australian gold long form videos The Ultimate Video Collection [32] U.S. gold long form videos The "Weird Al" Yankovic Video Library [32] [33] Alapalooza: The Videos "Weird Al" Yankovic ...
"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]
In 2022, the soundtrack album to the film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story included Yankovic performing the "Clarinet Polka" and a polka rendition of the Ramones' "Beat on the Brat". 2024 saw Al contribute to "New Year's Eve Polka (5-4-3-2-1)" on Jimmy Fallon 's album Holiday Seasoning with The Roots .
On the heels of his 2022 faux Hulu biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, the artist this year released the single “Polkamania!,” which gave an accordion-heavy spin to songs such as Olivia ...