The lyrics to the parodies on those albums are, according to my brain, the correct lyrics for those tunes. Through middle and high school, the era when you’re just breaking away from your parents’ taste in music and finding your own, Weird Al was a gateway drug to the cool stuff. That’s not a scientific, sociological analysis mind you I, personally, credit a large part of my love of music to those ’90s albums. While his other ’90s albums- Alapalooza, Bad Hair Day and Poodle Hat-never reached the same sales as his earlier work, the songs were still brilliant and they had a massive impact on young people of the era.
The song, and the pitch-perfect video, got his career right back to where it was in the late ’80s. Obviously from the quote in the intro, Kurt Cobain was a fan, so not only was he eager to let him use the song, but the band considered a Weird Al parody the moment it officially “made it.” Then he heard Nirvana’s seminal Nevermind and got inspired. He finished most of an album, Off the Deep End, but couldn’t find a single. “Weird Al” Yankovic - “Smells Like Nirvana”
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Even though his movie “UHF” is legitimately hilarious and a work of pure genius, it was released the same summer as Tim Burton’s “Batman,” “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” and “Ghostbusters II.” So… it did not do well, and it looked like the end of Weird Al’s popularity. Unfortunately, the decade did not end on a high note. Our illustrious editor Roman Gokhman should have asked Micky Dolenz about it. Michael Jackson loved his parodies so much that he let him use the recreation of the “Bad” music video set from his movie “Moonwalker” for “Fat,” and Madonna remains the only person to successfully pitch a song idea when she herself said he should turn “Like a Virgin” into “Like a Surgeon.”Īlso, since our readership absolutely loves The Monkees, I have to point out he opened for The Monkees on one of their reunion tours in 1987. He was so huge in the ’80s that the biggest stars were among his fans.
It ended up on Weird Al’s first album in 1983. Fieger suggested to his label, Capitol Records, that they release it as a single. It’s probably a good sign when your first parody song gets approval from the person you’re parodying, but it wasn’t a matter of him just liking it. Demento with whom he had an ongoing relationship, and it ended up getting noticed by The Knack lead singer and “My Sharona” writer Doug Fieger. He recorded the first demo in a bathroom, sent it to radio legend Dr. Weird Al (which started as a derogatory nickname in his dorm at Cal Poly but joke’s on them) wrote “My Bologna” in 1979 when “My Sharona” was popular.
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