'My nickname 'Weird Al' has been empowering for a lot of people,' he says. Reluctantly, Yankovic acknowledges there's something, in fact, very real about Weird Al. And in the minute-long trailer, Radcliffe holds nothing back screaming on stage.
On the last day of shooting, Radcliffe says, the whole cast and crew dressed up as Yankovic. The teaser trailer for 'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,' a new biopic about the comedy singer, dropped on Tuesday. We’ve split the post up into eight pages to prevent your browser from melting from 45 embedded videos, but if you’re feeling ballsy, you can see it as one page right here. At the 'Weird' premiere in Toronto, Hawaiian shirts and curly wigs were out in force. So without further ado, I proudly present all 45 official “Weird Al” music videos.
Nowadays seeing a music video on MTV is a rarity but thanks to Youtube (and Al!), all his videos are available online. His most recent album “Alpocalypse” was the first to have a music video for every single track, almost all of which were animated. As a kid who didn’t fit in, I couldn’t relate to the cool and popular version, but I could relate to Al’s.Īl started directing most of his videos in the 90s, but more recently he’s switched over to using animation to make his videos. Speaking of Weird Al, sad news from the Demento dimension: After 40 years. But Al’s more than a musical chameleon, he takes what’s popular and makes it accessible to the people who aren’t. (Although, I did make Xtina a few gifs.). By becoming Kurt Cobain or Lady Gaga, he tears down the artifice of celebrity and the superficiality of mainstream music. Part of the appeal of Al’s videos is seeing him slip into the roles of the artists he’s parodying.
And as music videos became more sophisticated, so did Al’s. When MTV was just starting out, Al became one of the first people to inject humor into the relatively new art form.
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Note from Tyler: This isnt working right now - sorry Its a conflict with my charting software and the latest. He’s also created a venerable roster of hilarious and memorable music videos. Discover a correlation: find new correlations. With over 150 songs in his repertoire, he’s taken on nearly every musical genre and pop culture reference imaginable. Get daily news from local news reporters and world news updates with live audio & video from our team. For nearly three decades “Weird Al” Yankovic has been the unparalleled master of song parody. MSNBC breaking news and the latest news for today.
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