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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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It's hard to force creativity and humor.
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There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most serious acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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There aren't that many superstars around anymore.
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It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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