The Big Alpocalypse Topic

[minnick27]

I don't think it was harsh for no reason. The man didn't like the album. And he did say parody-wise Al had very little to work with.

[TMBJon]

Even if you buy into his premise that this is Weird Al's worst album (I would say it's his best), why should "every artist releasing pop music today" be ashamed of what Weird Al is doing?

[weirdojace]

So he doesn't like the original songs being parodied, and he ignores all of the style parodies other than "yeah those are fun, but WAH WAH MILEY CYRUS TAYLOR SWIFT, MUSIC IN MY DAY WAS SO MUCH BETTER"

Honestly I wouldn't mind seeing a negative review if the review had actual reasons to be negative. But he didn't comment on the actual content of the songs at all, beyond Perform This Way (and he actually liked that one). I mean come on, there's even style parodies of Queen and The Doors on this album for you music snobs.

But Miley Cyrus sucks, so 1.5 stars.

[Kevbo1987]

I really find that review to be one tiny step above the people on Amazon who are giving the album two starts because they don't like the CD case. I'm with Jace on this one. It's unbelievable that this writer would give the album a bad review because he doesn't like today's music. I really don't see how Al could have done the album better in the reviewer's eyes, except maybe doing a bunch of parodies of songs that were written 30 years ago. That reviewer will not like any album Al puts out that parodies current songs, period.

[minnick27]

Well remember, Al songs are supposed to make things better, so maybe he feels that even though the originals were crap, Al's version didnt really improve on it

[Big Spoon]

I don't think Al's parodies are there just to make things better. Al often parodies fantastic songs that can't be improved on (American Pie, Piano Man, etc)

[weirdojace]

Well that's what got me. He didn't even talk about the actual content of the album. I could see somebody reviewing this album and giving it a poor rating because maybe they thought TMZ or Party in the CIA weren't funny or well written, but his only reason for giving it a bad rating was "I hate Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift."

[Way_Moby]

Even if you buy into his premise that this is Weird Al's worst album (I would say it's his best), why should "every artist releasing pop music today" be ashamed of what Weird Al is doing?

This part of his review, I think, was rather positive. He was saying that Al can only work with what is popular in pop music. "Every artist releasing pop music today" should be ashamed because they're giving Al material, with which he usual makes gold. The reviewer is arguing that since pop music is crap, the people making pop music should feel horrible that they're making Al make bad music.

However, I disagree on this.

[weirdojace]

Sounds like he just has "today's music sucks IN MY DAY music was SO much better" syndrome.

The older generation always says the younger generation's music sucks. It always was that way, and it always will be that way.

[PlayAWarGame]

When I was your age... When I was your age...