World of Weird Al Yankovic

Muldernscully wrote:

Yeah, but those songs weren't necessarily personal attacks about a specific person. I would equate this more to It's Still Billy Joel to Me than the other 2 songs, which were more about poking fun at the original songs themselves than the person singing them.

'Smells Like Nirvana' was a direct personal attack about a specific person, Kurt Cobain.

It was? I must have missed that somewhere along the way, I could swear it was a song about how you can't understand the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit.

TMBJon wrote:A great way to vent your frustrations about this situation would be to donate to the Human Rights Campaign, a charity that is near and dear to Al and his family.

Ditto.

wow! i didnt really know what the human rights campaign was until i just read about it and Lady Gaga is really letting a casue she has talked and fought for on many occasions down.

crazygurl14 wrote:wow! i didnt really know what the human rights campaign was until i just read about it and Lady Gaga is really letting a casue she has talked and fought for on many occasions down.

Yeah, I hope HRC sees a spike in their donations today and tells Lady Gaga "WTF?!? When you said you were 'born this way', we didn't think you meant 'STUPID'!!"

spmahn wrote:It was? I must have missed that somewhere along the way, I could swear it was a song about how you can't understand the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit.

And why do you think that is?

Hint: It's Kurt Cobain's singing, which he was in effect making fun of.

Here's a theory:

Maybe Lady gaga didn't want it to be heard because she was already planning on going to the MTV Movie Awards covered in bees. Can't have that Yankovic character tipping her hand

JCM wrote:

spmahn wrote:It was? I must have missed that somewhere along the way, I could swear it was a song about how you can't understand the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit.

And why do you think that is?

Hint: It's Kurt Cobain's singing, which he was in effect making fun of.

I thought that the unintelligble lyrics were intentional? It's not like Come As You Are or Lithium or Heart Shaped Box are quite as hard to understand....

Rob Sheffield (of Rolling Stone) tweets:
"Perform This Way" isn't exactly his A-game. I mean, it's not even "Like a Surgeon."

I thought it was good. It's gonna take off, for sure. Remember, people love parodies that directly make fun of the original artist (see: Smells Like Nirvana).

Even though this song won't be on the new album, this is a great kickstart to get people interested in it.