World of Weird Al Yankovic

Confirmed: "Word Crimes" is a skewering of Matt Walsh.

Skippy wrote:Confirmed: "Word Crimes" is a skewering of Matt Walsh.

Why would Al write a parody about some guy that nobody's heard of?

Bruce the Duck wrote:

Skippy wrote:Confirmed: "Word Crimes" is a skewering of Matt Walsh.

Why would Al write a parody about some guy that nobody's heard of?

To skewer him, of course.

LovelySortsOfDeath wrote: I just really really really want this song to make fun of Robin Thicke to the fullest Al could do.

Maybe one of those Al-TV interviews could do it better.

That is less impossible - Al actually skewered Kevin Federline in his interview (the only documented case of Al being really really mean). But since he's doing Thicke parody, he wouldn't be that harsh on him.

I think he was pretty rough on Eminem in the fake interview.

mellow weasel wrote:It may tease a little the length of "Trapped in the Closet", that's all.

Strongly disagree on this! Trapped In The Drive-Thru is definitely making fun of a lot more about the original than just the length. It also makes fun of the tedious way the story is told, the absurdity of the original lyrics, the way the original song went out on tangents unrelated to the plot. For example, the whole part where the employee thinks the narrator is her friend Paul, and then the narrator explains to his wife who Paul is - that has nothing to do with Trapped in The Drive Thru and is really just a direct ""skewering"" of Trapped In The Closet.

I watched the Kevin Federline interview yesterday with some buddies and it's definitely a ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssdjwdrgjk rkl;gjklerjgkerjgkl;jerklgjkjekrg sorry my keyboard sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Bruce the Duck wrote:I think he was pretty rough on Eminem in the fake interview.

Well he didn't call Eminem untallented failure, biggest smurf in the world, cause of psychological damage etc.

TMBJon wrote: Strongly disagree on this! Trapped In The Drive-Thru is definitely making fun of a lot more about the original than just the length. It also makes fun of the tedious way the story is told, the absurdity of the original lyrics, the way the original song went out on tangents unrelated to the plot.

I'm not too familiar with "Trapped in the Closet" (I only checked what Wikipedia had to say about it ), so sorry for uninformed statement...

mellow weasel wrote: I'm not too familiar with "Trapped in the Closet" (I only checked what Wikipedia had to say about it ), so sorry for uninformed statement...

But I don't think your statement was wrong, actually. You should check out the entire "Trapped in the Closet" on YouTube. It's basically already a comedy. It's intentionally over-the-top dramatic and ridiculous. Especially the further you get into the story. Al played on that by replacing the ridiculous story with a completely mundane story while imitating the over-dramatic delivery of the lines.

But it's not in the same ballpark as "Perform This Way," which mocks Lady Gaga's entire image (even though it can also be seen as complimentary in a way), "Smells Like Nirvana," which makes fun Kurt Cobain's loud and nonsensical singing, or the most ruthless - "Achy Breaky Song," which tears down that song as "stupid," "irritating," and "the most annoying song I know." To put it in the same category, Al would need to directly make fun of something about R Kelly, such as his underage sex scandal. Just imitating the song's ridiculousness is NOT the same thing.

But I think we've derailed this thread long enough, so let's get back on topic.

Are you not counting "This Song's Just (Six Words Long)"?

Derailing continued...