![]() It's meant to sound similar to the music that he did for Smile and Pet Sounds, and it's basically a love song to my pancreas, because it came to my attention that not a lot of songs have been written about the pancreas. "That's a style parody of Brian Wilson, an homage as it were. ![]() We got Donny Osmond to do the Krayzie Bone role, because obviously if you can't get Krayzie Bone, you get Donny Osmond." It's also my first big-budget, live-action video in seven years, and it was a lot of fun to do. I've been doing research on this song my entire life, so it's basically the culmination of a lifetime of work. "This, of course, is the Chamillionaire parody, and this is the song that I was born to write, basically. "I decided that since the artist himself was OK with it and since it was basically just a bunch of suits that were doing something that wasn't even in their artist's best interest I really had no problem releasing the song on the Internet," he said.įortunately, there's plenty of other material on Straight Outta Lynwood, which Al discussed for MTV News, track by track: So, per his own rules (he is allowed to parody by law), Weird Al pulled the song from the LP - but all was not lost. So I agreed to wait and hopefully they would let me put out the song, and a few months went by and finally we got the official word that the right time was never." felt it was too early in his career and that they didn't want to focus any more attention on 'You're Beautiful.'. ![]() "We had gotten James Blunt's permission for the parody, but Atlantic Records. "The original lead single was supposed to be my parody of 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt called 'You're Pitiful,' " Al recalled. In fact, Al's 12th studio album, due Tuesday (September 26), was supposed to be released in June, but just like when Coolio came out against "Amish Paradise" and Eminem kept Al from spoofing "Lose Yourself," he had an issue with one of his parodies. "It would have been nice to be able to do something on 'SexyBack,' but I just missed the deadline on that," the parody pro said. If only "Weird Al" Yankovic had a few more weeks to work on Straight Outta Lynwood.
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