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"White & Nerdy" is the second single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood, which was released in 2006. It parodies the song " Ridin' " by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone . The song both satirizes and celebrates nerd culture, as recited by the subject, who cannot "roll with the gangstas " because he is "just too white and nerdy ".
Al Shipley of Stylus gave the album a "B−" and felt that, while "White & Nerdy" was a solid parody, the other spoofs on the album were not quite up to par. He praised "Pancreas" and "Virus Alert" as the album's best style parodies, comparing the latter to the 1985 single " Dare to Be Stupid ", while criticizing "I'll Sue Ya", "Close but No ...
"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.
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 ...
Yankovic's following album was Straight Outta Lynwood in 2006, which featured the single "White & Nerdy", a parody of "Ridin '" by Chamillionaire. "White & Nerdy" became Yankovic's first Billboard Top Ten single, debuting at No. 29 and peaking at No. 9. "Canadian Idiot", a parody of "American Idiot" by Green Day, also charted in the Hot 100.
Internet Leaks is the second EP released by the American parody musician "Weird Al" Yankovic. Released digitally on August 25, 2009, its lead single is a parody of "Whatever You Like" by artist T.I. For Yankovic, the EP was an experiment in using the Internet as a way to release music in an efficient and timely manner.
"First World Problems" is a song by the American parody artist and satirist "Weird Al" Yankovic from his 2014 studio album Mandatory Fun. The song is a pastiche of the music of the Pixies , particularly the songs " Debaser " and "No. 13 Baby".
Mandatory Fun is the fourteenth and final [1] [2] studio album by the American parody musician "Weird Al" Yankovic. The self-produced album was released by RCA Records in the United States on July 15, 2014. Yankovic had previously released Alpocalypse in 2011 and was touring in support of it when he first spoke of his next record.