World of Weird Al Yankovic

Interesting.

A Toyota's a Toyota!

Actually, the first few times I heard the song, I had no idea they were palindromes. I was listening one day and realized that one of the lines began with "Ah Satan" and ended with "Natasha". I knew those were palindromes so I started listening to the lyrics closer. Funny stuff.

I think I got it about the second or third time, when I was trying to remember where I had heard "No X in Nixon" before. I was proud of myself for catching on. :^)

I didn't catch on to the palindrome thing at first, either. The first few times I listened to the song, I was like, "This song makes no sense". Of course, when I finally realized the lyrics were palindromes, I laughed hysterically.

As a big fan of Bob Dylan, I was laughing when I first heard it anyway. Some of Dylans songs make about as much sense as the lyrics to "Bob". Then it was like a double funny when I figured out the palindrome thing.

For the longest time I couldn't stand the song, his voice was so nasal and it just sounded like gibbrish, then I saw the music video and it blew...my...mind. I was just so astounded that there were so many palindromes, the only ones I knew were "a man, a plan, a canal, panama" and "race car" but they weren't even in it.

There is a reason why Al sang the song the way he did. It's a Bob Dylan style parody, so he wanted to sound like Bob. I like the song.

Yeah, I totally get it now. Before I didn't even really know Bob Dylan music, but I can attest to Al being an educator, like he said in his NPR interview, because now I can identify Bob Dylan songs when I hear 'em.

I went to a Bob Dylan concert for the first time after Poodle Hat came out (that was my summer to go to concerts by People Al Admires-- I hit Dylan and Devo both!) and have now (only 40-some years behind the times) become something of a Dylan fan. Of course, I can only understand about 60-70% of his lyrics when sung in concert, but the situation's much better on the CDs.

There's no doubt that becoming an Al fan can result in broadening one's musical tastes in all sorts of interesting directions.