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You should know by now that if Al doesn't personally bludgeon every single writer and critic over the head with an oar each time he releases a new album, he's supposedly a has-been.Kevbo1987 @ Jun 29 2005, 08:34 PM wrote: I guess having an album debut at #17 and winning a Grammy isn't good enough for that writer.
Tara Lyn
From article wrote: Launching Weird Al Yankovic's Career
Much like Grandpa asking you to pull his finger, Weird Al Yankovic was amusing for about a minute -- 15 years ago. Granted, we can't deny the artistry of a song like "Eat It" -- "Have some more yogurt/Have some more Spam/It doesn't matter if it's fresh or canned." And "Fat," Yankovic's parody of Jackson's "Bad," was at least as funny as Meatballs 2.
But the ability to elicit a few chuckles in the '80s doesn't warrant a decades-long career that's bottomed out in recent years with dreck like "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" and "Party at the Leper Colony." Inadvertently self-parodying acts like the Offspring and Coolio are far better at making themselves look like dumbasses than Yankovic ever was.
CatraDhtem @ Jun 30 2005, 02:07 AM wrote: You should know by now that if Al doesn't personally bludgeon every single writer and critic over the head with an oar each time he releases a new album, he's supposedly a has-been.
Silly me. How could I have forgotten?
Inadvertently self-parodying acts like the Offspring and Coolio are far better at making themselves look like dumbasses than Yankovic ever was.
Seems to me like he's insulting him. He was saying that he feels that The Offspring and Coolio don't need to be parodied. They're self-parodying, and they're better at it than Al ever was, according to this writer.minnick27 @ Jun 30 2005, 06:15 PM wrote:
Is he insulting Al or praising him? I can't tell, he totally reversed his opinion in the last line