“Felipe always had the most amazing illustrations, so I wanted to make sure that he was included in this collection. I picked Felipe because he illustrated for Nathan Rabin, who has done several books about me,” Yankovic says. “That piece is one of my absolute favorites in the book. While trying to pick a favorite chapter from the book represented a “Sophie’s Choice”-type conundrum for Yankovic, he did make sure to to compliment Felipe Sobriero’s interpretation of “Jackson Park Express,” his 2014 Yacht Rock-ish opus about a weirdo on a crosstown bus. We'd send him the artist or the portfolio and Al matched every song to every artist to…bring out the best in every ,” he says.
“I wanted to make sure that that was right, at least.”īernstein credits Yankovic for having a deft touch in selecting which artists would be the best fit with his songs. “I mean, the only notes I ever gave I think were if they got the lyrics wrong,” he says with a laugh. The singer preferred to take a hands-off approach and let the artists do their thing, with one notable exception. “I think the artists all made very good choices and I think my catalog is pretty well-represented.” “We wanted them to really vibe with whatever they're doing and really have ownership in their work,” he says. Yankovic also gave the artists a list of his songs to choose from for the graphic novel. “I got to see examples of their work and I would say, oh, this is a person that I think would kind of get what I'm doing.” “Many of were people I knew and had worked with in the past and others were supplied by Z2,” Yankovic says. Yankovic helped select the artists for the project, but aside from viewing the pages as they were finished, he says he took a hands-off approach. Any book we do where the artist has their fingerprints on it, it's infinitely better.'”
“Al’s camp came back to me with a better idea, which was, what if we interpret all these lyrics and this is what Al thinks? And I was like, 'Oh my God, yes. “When we started, we dreamed about working with a couple different artists and Al was one of the first people we emailed,” recalls Bernstein, who served as project editor for the book. It tackles some of the best-known Yankovic parodies, including “Like A Surgeon,” “Amish Paradise,” but focuses more on original Weird Al songs like “Dare to be Stupid.” The idea came about after Z2 Comics approached the singer about collaborating on a project. The Illustrated Al is a ‘Greatest Hits’ album in graphic novel form.
Later in the tour, he changed it to reference Paris Hilton’s DUI and imprisonment, and her subsequent interview on Larry King Live.7 Images The Origins of The Illustrated Al Yankovic’s Straight Outta Lynwood concert tour contained new lyrics as part of a parody medley, referencing Britney Spears, dealing with her 2007 head-shaving shock and underpants-less limousine trip in late 2006. The band then hid the instruments until the end of the song, when they took them out and played them this “came as a big surprise to” Yankovic. Reportedly, during one of the performances, Ellen Reid, backing vocalist and keyboardist for the Crash Test Dummies, went out and purchased kazoos. Roberts and the band also performed the song with Yankvoic twice once on Canada’s MuchMusic channel and another time at the House of Blues in Los Angeles.
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Plus he gets half the earnings and that helps me make money. He later noted that, “People assume that I was annoyed but when does a parody of you, you know you’ve made it.” He later praised the way Yankovic interacted with the artists that he parodies, noting that “Weird Al goes the whole route and cultivates a relationship with the artist. In this 1994 parody, Yankovic takes on the Crash Test Dummies’s 1993 hit “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” with a song that references 3 different huge stories that broke the news during the recording of this song.īrad Roberts, the original songwriter for “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” was extremely pleased with the parody, and found it humorous.
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