"Like a virgin..."

[thewayne]

I drove down to El Paso today (waste of a trip except for one good random encounter and spotting some good photography spots on the drive), The station that I was listening to had an all-request lunch hour. They started playing the aforementioned Madonna song, it is perhaps the first time that I’ve heard said song in its entirety, or maybe my memory purged it from my being.

ANYWAY, my brain started with “I finally made it through med school, somehow I made it through. I’m just an intern, I still make a mistake or two.”

Yes, WEIRD AL YANKOVIC RULES THE UNIVERSE! Not long after the Madonna song came out, he released “Like A Surgeon”.

Amusingly, less than an hour earlier, I’m hearing some unusual guitar chords starting a song and start thinking “Hmmm, that sounds like the opening chords of a Weird Al polka medley.” Sure enough, when they got to the chorus, there it was: “I’m a loser, baby, so why don’t you kill me?” No idea what the name of the song or band was, still, I was amused.

Comments

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I did not know that. I wonder how often he has been contacted by an artist wanting to be parodied.

Though I like Pentiums, I'd probably rate Bedrock Anthem and Amish Paradise higher. There's a great song off his second most recent album called Drivin' A Truck (with my high heels on) that I'm quite fond of.

[magic-rat.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, that's the only time that he's had an artist request a parody. I learned that during an interview with him, but that interview was before Running With Scissors and Poodle Hat so I don't know if there have been requests since then (especially since many artists consider it a mark of having "made it" to be parodied by Weird Al).

I forgot to mention that another favorite of mine is "Jurassic Park". Not only does it have that wonderful clay-mation for the video, I never thought that anyone would be able to do a good parody song based on "MacArthur Park". Similar kudos for "The Saga Begins ..." based on "American Pie".