Friday, October 17, 2014

"Weird" Al Yankovic New Album Mandatory Fun

-David Correa-Schmick

         Hey everybody I'm back again and today I will talk about my favorite singer  "Weird" Al Yankovic. He makes parodies of well-known songs to his very recent album Mandatory Fun. Some recent examples on his album  are Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke, T.I., and Pharrel Willliams renamed Word Crimes, Happy by Pharrel Williams renamed Tacky, Royals by Lorde renamed Foil, Fancy by Iggy Azeala and Charli XCX renamed Handy, and Radioactive by Imagine Dragons renamed Inactive. He also made some songs by himself like First World Problems and Lame Claim to Fame. Mandatory Fun reached #1 in the Unites States.

        My favorite song is called Now That's What I Call Polka. It's a mashup of old songs into one song. It's kind of like the DJ Earworm remix but it's not too similar. The mashup includes popular songs like, Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus, Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People, Best Song Ever by One Direction, Gangnam Style by Psy, Call Me Maybe by Carla Rae Jepson, Scream And Shout by will.i.am and Britney Spears, Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye and Kimbra, Timber by Ke$ha and Pitbull, Sexy And I Know It by LMFAO, Thrift Shop by Mackelmore and Ryan lewis with Wanz, and Get Lucky by Daft Punk and Pharrel Williams.

What did you think of the song? Do you like "Weird" Al Yankovic? Did you watch some of his other song parodies before? What favorite song from the mashup do you like the most?

21 comments:

  1. The beat of the song simply irritated me. Also, the guy's voice reflected a thought that said "this guy is annoying." I am confused to how people find this amusing... That's just my opinion though...

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  2. I actually thought that this was really cool. I am one of those people that find this very amusing. I thought it was weird and funny. I love how his voice sounded with the song and the person singing. I would want to watch another video of him. They look like they would be very amusing.

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  3. Oh my gosh!! I love Weird Al soooo much! He was like my child hood. My brother would always listen to it and I would listen to it with him! I have always loved his parodies. I think they are really funny. I personally loved his singing and I loved when it looked like the actual singer of the song was sininh with his voice. Idk, this video made me happy.

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  4. It must be so hard making one sone out of so many other songs. It was also really long! Some of the bits were cool, but I hated what he did to songs I love. I wonder why he picked a polka...

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  5. i cant believe i just listened to this. that was so annoying and incredibly irritating!

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  6. It actually wasn't that funny to me. I just think the guy was only singing the songs and putting the music videos, it's not that much. I guess it would've sounded cool except I kinda found the man's voice annoying. Yeah, sorry I actually didn't enjoy it much.

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  7. It is pretty funny how some sad songs turns really funny. It really sounds like circus. I enjoyed a lot. I really don't know what makes me laughing but it is really funny to me.

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  8. I got to say that this is pretty awesome. The skill to mash songs like these with a polka rhythm is impressive! Some people might not acknowledge it, but this guy is awesome. I did find the guys voice annoying sometimes, but it's really funny to see other versions of the same songs EVERYONE always listens to.

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  9. I said previously that I didn't quite like mashups, but one thing that I have to admit is that this guy has a great voice so the remakes are enjoyable.

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  10. I thought this video was cool but weird at the same time. I liked how the video matched with the song so it actually looked like he was singing. Also it was different than the other mashups so I personally liked it :)

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  11. Dat "I'm sexy and I know it" song though. Slow-motion. Mmmmm

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  12. i like this video and how this guy mixes all this songs and sing them its awesome

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  13. The first 5 sec. of this video irritated me. It was very annoying to hear the Polka and a squishy voice at the same time. Later on it got a lot better. Later I actually laugh for some, but I think it was a great video taking in consideration that it was very long and had different types of songs.

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  14. I appreciate anything Weird Al does because he's a righteous dude, this song included. As an artist, Weird Al is in fact, quite talented.

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  15. I've enjoyed Weird Al ever since my brother introduced him to me at the tender age of 8. I always assumed he just stopped making music. It's a bit of a wake up call to see he's made a new album. I should check out his stuff more.

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  16. This song is kind of weird and the voice makes me laugh, but its still pretty cool. It's definitely different. The beginning really scared me though, the song started so fast.

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  17. hahaha this video is so funny!!

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  18. This was VERY weird but also very funny omg

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  19. I thought this video was very funny but i wouldn't listen to this music if it wasn't in a video though because the music was really annoying.

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  20. I liked the music and the videos thought

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  21. hahaha this video is hilarious. The voice of that guy kind of creeps me out.

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