World of Weird Al Yankovic

Posted: **Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:00 am**

I loved Amish Paradise. I thought the original was good as well. However, I felt the 'feud' between Coolio and Al was stupid, mostly on Coolio's part. Big deal, he made a parody. You just sampled Stevie Wonder, so you're even.

Plus, it made VH1's "40 Lamest Hip Hop Moment's." Kinda cool/funny.

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:30 am**

I first heard of this song during the 1996 ALTV special (at that time, the only songs I knew of that Al wrote and performed, besides the songs played before the music video, were Eat It, I Lost on Jeapordy, and Lasagna). The Gangstas Paradise music video played, and I speculated on what the parody would be called. I had heard of Gangstas Paradise, but I thought it was called Gangsters Paradise, and figured that "Gangsters Paradise" would be a funny parody title (not realising that "Gangster" and "Gangsta" were pretty much the same thing).

It was really only Coolio who had a problem. Al has nothing agaisnt Coolio. I once saw part of a VH1 list show on celebrity battles, and one of the first ones lsited was "Weird Al Yankovic Vs. Coolio", regarding Amish Paradise. Pretty ridiculous considering that Al never had any anger with Coolio (he even mentioned in an "Ask Al" that he has no beef with Coolio).

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:19 am**

That's what made me laugh about the 'feud.' Only Coolio bore the problem.

But, apparently all's well that end's well.

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:07 am**

THis is my threeyearold sisters favorite song... along with fat. Its realy funny she says it Emmish Peridisse. Oddly enough, she likes the live version better than the Music Vid...

Just the other day my mom was saying "Tom York can sing bakwards... Can AL sing backwards

???" So i showed her amish paridise (again)

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:27 pm**

addictedtoyankovic @ Jul 26 2007, 05:07 AM wrote:
Just the other day my mom was saying "Tom York can sing bakwards... Can AL sing backwards ???" So i showed her amish paridise (again)

You could also have played "Bob" for her.

Posted: **Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:00 am**

LOL... Yeah, I'll have to remember that!!!

Posted: **Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:36 am**

when my dog starts to bark it sounds like hes singing amish paridise

Posted: **Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:47 am**

That's funny, because when I sing Amish Paradise I kind of sound like a dog.

Posted: **Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:26 pm**

And when a dog sings Amish Paradise, it... okay, I've got nothin'.

Posted: **Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:45 pm**

you have a great sense of humor mystik