Classic or Dud: Weird Al Yankovic

*Curiously looks up what was #20 ten years ago*

Hmm, I think I've been exposed to Fancy more than I have to Christina Milian's Dip It Low, but I understand your point.

I hope that Weird Al at least had the class to include a shoutout to Charli XCX

i've heard 'happy' and 'radioactive' like a dozen+ times out in the wild (and 'royals' several dozen) but never heard 'fancy' or 'blurred lines' without youtubing them, its weird how arbitrary a cross section of chart music you get without seeking it out.

i think i knew all of the songs in the polka though

it's weird ppl wouldn't want to pull up some song on youtube that pretty much nobody has anything positive to say about

― balls, Thursday, July 17, 2014 1:41 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The number one song that nobody had anything positive to say about.

I have heard parodies of Fancy (the Weird Al one and a couple of really shitty ones on Facebook) more than I have heard Fancy

Moodles otm: Link to the bizarre piece shout-out piece being referenced:

http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2014/05/29/3443070/why-doesnt-iggy-azalea-give-charli-xcx-a-shout-out-in-fancy/

fancy is used in a bunch of ads now, so that makes it more inescapable.

dip it low is amazing and everyone should listen to it more.

also weird al's dancing in the handy video really puts it over the top

"word crimes" is going to get a sudden numbers boost the first week of september.

i am literally an unfrozen caveman so whiney otm

I'm not saying it's weird they haven't heard the song, I'm saying it's stupid that they would rather post about it on a message board than take the 2 seconds to pull it up on YouTube before listening to a parody of it

― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:39 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not everyone gets paid-not-paid to keep up with this shi

Where did hit songs get more exposure 10 years ago? On Myspace?

I hope that Weird Al at least had the class to include a shoutout to Charli XCX

― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Thursday, July 17, 2014 12:48 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thumbs up!

I'm not saying it's weird they haven't heard the song, I'm saying it's stupid that they would rather post about it on a message board than take the 2 seconds to pull it up on YouTube before listening to a parody of it.

lol when I saw "last updated by Whiney" in Site New Answers I figured he literally took a shit on the thread

the first two seconds of fancy are killer tho

I've said this multiple times elsewhere; just about everything about "Fancy" should be repellent to me but somehow it coheres into something... kind of great.

I hate it if only because it finally managed to made Charli XCX annoying to me.

I think I'd heard Fancy before without realizing what it was...? Maybe I thought it was a Nicki song. At any rate, I have already totally forgotten the hook, so apart from everything else wrong with it, it's a shitty song

that "fancy" thinkpiece is so bizarre. of all the things to write, and after going to the trouble of getting an actual university professor to answer your questions, repeatedly asking "but what about charli xcx??? but what about charli xcx????" is dumb

i agree with djp re: "fancy", it's a banger. i'm half-disappointed that iggy's album is shit (would've loved trying to rep for her, she's nowhere near as awful as she's made out to be), half-relieved (bc she's so #problematic), but i'm fine with the song. i think the best thing about it is the sheer chutzpah of opening it with "first things first, i'm the realest". irl lol every time. not even just "real" which is an actual arguable case but REALEST. amazing.

i didn't know you were talking about more interesting things than this comedian in here, only came in to register disapproval of that dickish grammar nazi song where he calls people spastics and mouthbreathers. exhibit 9390228022 of comedians being a wretched fuckwit who gets off on kicking down and mocking others.

btw Paris Hilton has a new single out

so you know, rather than lecture us you could go fawn over your pretty blonde rich no-talent racist

that must be the first time anyone has ever criticized Weird Al for being mean to people

lol Dan

xp

lol i can't even remember the last time i typed paris hilton's name? and what is it with this dude that makes everyone get snippy in his defence

most humans enjoy laughter

He's got a 30+ year history of being one of the most delightful people on the planet.

what is it with this dude who's been around 30 years that makes someone comedysplain his "terribleness" having heard A song

calling people spastics and mouthbreathers is highly delightful, yes

i appreciate it when you tell me about comedy

guys guys we all know lex and whiney are remarkably stupid, proudly ignorant, and generally morally bankrupt manchildren, i think we can move on. let's not make another thread about the 'let's talk about me' guys.

I think we've established in some other discussion here that spastic has different connotations in the UK than it does in the US, and mouthbreathers is fairly innocuous as an insult.

I'm sorry I was unaware that mouthbreathers were an oppressed minority

xp

He should call them stupid hos instead.

I told y'all they'd show up.

let's all be friends

how about we play

WHEEL

OF

FISH

this was news to me, thank you for teaching me something, music comedy man!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spastic

For those of you just joining us, today we're teaching poodles how to fly.

]In his song 'Goodnight Saigon', Billy Joel tells the story of young American soldiers going to Vietnam, naive on arrival and some going back home in body bags in the end. He sings, "We came in spastic like tameless horses, we left in plastic as numbered corpses." The lyrics are in no way offensive in this American context. - beg to differ

"we came in spastic like tameless horses" is one of the dumbest things I've ever read, so I enjoyed that article (xpost)

Billy Joel's general existence is offensive

man even at the 9/11 memorial concert? for shame shakey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6T2B3Vhtzk

i have no beef with weird al but goodnight saigon is pretty great tbh

xpost lol

I love goodnight saigon and most of Billy Joel from storm front & before

AS SHARP AS KNIVESKNIVESKNIVESKNIVES

still keep hoping someone will take the reins and do the billy joel track by track thread. have heard/loved 'goodnight saigon' a million times but apparently have been too...moved by it's story to catch 'spastic like tameless horses' before.

can a mod get the offensive reference three posts ago

we CAN'T have refs to the piano man on this board

didn't know billy joel was on $t0rmfr0nt

plus the cadence of that line is cool,
weeee came in spas tic...like tameless hor ses

i know i know take it to the billy joel thread I'll stop