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Off the Deep End and its lead single "Smells Like Nirvana" helped to revitalize Yankovic's career after a lull following his last hit single, "Fat", in 1988. The musical styles on Off the Deep End are built around parodies and pastiches of pop and rock music of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the newly arisen grunge movement.
Yankovic requested his record label Scotti Brothers to release the song as the second single from Off the Deep End. As the label would only release the single if its music video was a parody, Yankovic modeled the video for "You Don't Love Me Anymore" after the video for the song "More Than Words" by American rock band Extreme.
Off the Deep End (1992) The "noise" song appears as a hidden track on most CD releases. It starts playing after ten minutes of silence at the end of the "You Don't Love Me Anymore" track. Inspired by Nirvana's hidden track on Nevermind. "Bob" Poodle Hat (2003) The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic (2009)
Alapalooza is the eighth studio album by the American parody musician "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1993.By the completion of his previous album, Off the Deep End, Yankovic had already written all of the original songs that he planned to use on his next release.
It was released as the lead-off single for the compilation box set Permanent Record: Al in the Box on September 27, 1994. The song was written after Yankovic's label insisted he craft a new song to promote the album; Yankovic in turn combined the music of the Crash Test Dummies' song with three news stories that were popular in late 1993 and ...
An accompanying music video was released showing Gaga and Cooper singing "Shallow" onstage, interspersed with scenes from A Star Is Born. [7] The song was released as a digital download to the iTunes Store, YouTube and Spotify. [8] [9] BBC Radio 2 playlisted the track on October 13, 2018. [10]
The song was later released as a promotional single in Germany, where Yankovic's recording label felt a polka song might have more success. [21] This was the second time that one of Yankovic's polka medleys was released as a single; in 1985, Scotti Brothers Records released " Hooked on Polkas ", from the album Dare to Be Stupid , in Japan.
Lunders noted that the album "endures artistically as a transitional album between his '80s heyday and the imminent artistic makeover revealed on 1992's Off the Deep End". [9] He ultimately concluded that the album is something that only "moderate [to] genuine" fans may want, but that it is "nearly as accessible" as many of his compilation ...