Tuesday Morning Yankovic

[yendi]

Here's Al's latest song and video, Skipper Dan:


ETA: For those wondering, this is not a parody, but has enough Weezer-esque elements that I think it could safely be grouped with "Germs," "Twister," "Dare to be Stupid," and other songs that ape a group's style.

ETA2: And yes, the animator missed two hyphens in the name of the Mamet play.

Comments

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

Huh. Weird Al can have a nice voice.

(I can't tell if this was animated by one of the Waking Life animators or if it's a parody of her style...)

[yendi]

The former; it's by Divya Srinivasan.

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

I discovered I actually liked WAY's voice from the Star Wars song.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

For those wondering, this is not a parody, but has enough Weezer-esque elements that I think it could safely be grouped with "Germs," "Twister," "Dare to be Stupid," and other songs that ape a group's style.

Al's does at least one pastiche song on every album (except the first, IIRC). They go all the way back to "Mr. Popeil" (the B-52s) and "Dare to Be Stupid" (Devo).

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

I love his not-quite-parody songs. D

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

Most of his songs are parodies on some level.

Parody of a specific song.
Parody of a specific group/artist's style.
Parody of an entire genre.

[jocosa]

I cannot click play till I get home but the scene I do see... is it about the Disney Jungle Cruise ride? If so.. YAY! :)

[yendi]

Indeed it is! :-)

[jocosa]

Excellent!

[wakingdreaming.livejournal.com]

The video is no longer available.

[yendi]

They've disabled embedding, but I've replaced the embed with a link.