Boston Globe - The king of pop parodies, "Weird Al" Yankovic, posted his new song today. It's a parody of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way." You won't hear it on his forthcoming album, however. Apparently Ms. Gaga said "no way" to "Perform This Way."
I don't get what's in this for Mr. Yankovic here anyway? I mean Gaga's lyrics are already out there and much crazier than Al could ever come up with. Riding disco sticks and poking her in the face? Good luck parodying that. I guess the goal would be Gaga songs and tunes set to wholesome, family friendly lyrics? Would that be funny?
And why must everything Gaga make the news? How many artists a year do you think turn down Weird Al? Like all of them, right?
Weird Al is the number one person in the world that benefited by coming out before the YouTube era. If Weird Al broke out these days, he'd do so to the tune of like 2 million views, a lot of death threats and jokes at his expense on the message boards and in the comments sections, and then obscurity in 6 months. Basically he'd be a more popular version of that lip syncing midget kid.
Point is, he's just some dude sitting at home messing around with keyboards and webcams, it shouldn't be news that a major pop star denied him licensing rights to her songs.
