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As far as I’m aware, Al is mostly on good terms with the artists he’s parodied off of.

Well, except Prince ofc lol (cuz he refused to be parodied by Al, so Al has poked fun at Prince in a couple of his songs). Plus Coolio for a while but then Coolio later warmed up to the parody “Amish Paradise” a few years later, which is nice at least :)).

Other than those 2, does Al have any musical arch-rivals (aka people who refused to be parodied by him and/or didn’t like Al’s parodies of their original songs)?

Personally, I’d have loved a music video of “Ode to a Superhero“ cuz the image of Al in Billy Joel’s 70s haircut whilst playing the piano would be kinda funny ngl lol 😂

weird ask I know lol, but I ask this cuz I‘m gonna make a comparison post soon(ish) in which I compare the young irl 1980s versions of Steve, Kimo & Bermuda with their respective actors in “Weird : The Al Yankovic Story” (2022), so was wondering if there any available pics of (at least early-mid(ish) ‘80s) Steve, Kimo & Bermuda?

cheers!

idk what the exact trope is called, but I just gotta talk about it.

that trope in historical/period dramas/comedies/comedy-dramas where, if the characters are and the setting is *explicitly* supposed to take place outside of America and/or Britain and the characters themselves are *explicitly* supposed to have an accent that isn’t an American/British English accent (like for example, the setting takes place in France or Germany or whatever, and the characters are supposed to speak with French or German accents or whatever), except they’re played by actors and actresses who just…speak in their regular American/British English accents.

like, idk that trope is kinda weird to me. Not that I hate it or anything, but smth about that trope just kinda makes me *aware* of the fact that it’s a period piece and the characters are played by actors. Like, obvs that’s what it is happening lol, but I feel like with period pieces you have to *believe* the characters are authentic and stuff, ykwim? Idk how to phrase it properly but what I’m tryna get at here is that, you have to at least (on some level) believe that the characters (even tho they are just fictional, or in some cases, fictionalised versions of real people) are real people and stuff.

I do *kinda* get why this is a thing (I suppose the characters (played by an actor(s)) speaking with the accent of the country that the period piece is set in would probs get annoying after a while lol, as well as other factors such as if an actor(s) can’t do at least a decent Non-American/British accent), but still i’m allowed to complain about it lol.

some period pieces that use this trope (that come to my mind at least) include:

-“The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” (2008)

-“The Sound of Music” (1965)

-“The Death of Stalin” (2017) (ok in TDoS’s case that trope was used intentionally for comedic purposes, but I’m still including that film lol)

-“Hitler : The Rise of Evil“ (2003) (the miniseries starring Robert Carlyle as Adolf Hitler)

there’s probs more examples that use this trope, but these are the examples that came to my head. If there are more examples that use this trope, do let me know!

anyways, let me know y’all’s thoughts on this trope! I’m interested to hear about them fr!

what were/are some moments where Weird Al is being very wholesome?

silly question i know, but i have always wondered about why Al's bandmate and guitarist Jim West is nicknamed "Kimo"?

I know the story behind Al's other bandmate and drummer Jon Schwartz being nicknamed "Bermuda" (cuz "Bermuda Shorts" is an actual brand of, well, shorts, and since Jon's surname is "Schwartz" (which sounds very similar to "Shorts"), there's some clever and funny wordplay going on with "Bermuda Schwartz").

So i was wondering if Jim's nickname "Kimo" also has a similar nickname backstory, or is it maybe cuz idk ig he thought "Kimo" sounded a bit funny as a word or smth?

please let me know!!

For joke reasons, this movie is 100% ABSOLUTELY ACCURATE AND TRUE TO LIFE ‼️‼️‼️

For non-joke reasons, apparently the only 2 things from the film that were actually true were :

(1) Al really did record his debut song “My Bologna“ in a public bathroom

(2) Al apparently really did get his first accordion from a (quite literal) travelling door-to-door salesman

Imo, I feel like “It’s All About the Pentiums” and “Trapped in the Drive-Thru” are very good musically and lyrically (TitDT especially cuz the fact it dramatically describes an otherwise very normal situation really makes it funny lol), and dare I say, even better than the originals (tho I may be a *tad* biased cuz, uhm, Diddy and R. Kelly can simply fuck off cuz they’re very terrible people)

anyways, let me know (in your opinion) which of Weird Al‘s parody songs are better than the OGs + why in the comment!