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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.
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 Live! Bad Hair Day: The Videos: U.S. platinum long form videos The Ultimate ...
"Eat It" is a 1984 song by American comedy music artist "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of Michael Jackson 's 1983 single " Beat It ", with the contents changed to be about an exasperated parent attempting to get their picky child to eat anything at all, much less to eat properly.
"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 ...
Ten years ago, “Weird Al” Yankovic made history, as he is wont to do. “Mandatory Fun,” his 14th and final studio album, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It was not only unprecedented ...
Yankovic released his second album "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D in 1984. The first single "Eat It", a parody of the Michael Jackson song "Beat It", became popular, thanks in part to the music video, a shot-for-shot parody of Jackson's "Beat It" music video, and what Yankovic sarcastically described as his "uncanny resemblance" to Jackson. [17]
While Yankovic's previous albums usually generated only one or two official music videos, Straight Outta Lynwood spawned nine, and the DualDisc release of the album included videos for all six original songs. Yankovic's record label had suggested he release a DualDisc, and he was in favor of the idea once he realized that he could hire ...
The "Weird Al" Yankovic Video Library is a VHS release of most of "Weird Al" Yankovic music videos to date. The VHS contains 12 music videos: "Fat" (from Even Worse album) "Smells Like Nirvana" (from Off the Deep End album) "Like a Surgeon" (from Dare to Be Stupid album) "Eat It" (from "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D album)