'Weird Al' Yankovic Nonetheless Making an attempt To Wrap Head Round No. 1 Album

'Weird Al' Yankovic Nonetheless Making an attempt To Wrap Head Round No. 1 Album

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'Bizarre Al' Yankovic nonetheless making an attempt to wrap head round No. 1 album
Weird Al Yankovic arrives on the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 12, 2012. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/Information
LOS ANGELES The previous week for "Bizarre Al" Yankovic has been a little bizarre by the requirements of the curly-haired, accordion-enjoying, oddball grasp of pop music parody.
The 54-year-previous singer of such songs as "Eat It," a culinary spoof on Michael Jackson's 1983 hit "Beat It" and "Amish Paradise," the ship-up of rapper Coolio's 1995 sensation "Gangsta's Paradise," scored his first No. 1 album on the U.S. Billboard chart with "Obligatory Fun", following every week-lengthy rollout of music videos. id:nL2N0PY28A
"It is nonetheless exhausting for me to wrap my head round that," Yankovic stated in an interview. "It means quite a bit to me."
Seemingly eclipsed at his personal sport by the rise of parody and fan-generated music videos online over the past decade and shut out from MTV when the community largely gave up music movies for original programming, Yankovic has survived by tapping into social media.
"I spotted that the Web was pretty much the place my bread was buttered," mentioned the three-time Grammy winner, whose three-decade career has been due largely partly to the success of his humorous music videos.
"I wished to do one thing that may attraction to the net group and issues on the Internet go viral quick," he added.
Yankovic launched eight new songs each day beginning on July 14 with "Cheesy," a celebrity-filled video of Pharrell's worldwide hit "Pleased," which itself has spawned countless fan movies.
"There was all the time the danger people would get bored with it, by the third day I was wondering if individuals can be going, 'Oh no, more Al,'" stated Yankovic of the eight videos which have thus far racked up greater than 40 million views.
"Obligatory Enjoyable" bought 104,000 copies in its first week, in accordance with figures compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. It also became the first comedy album to succeed in No. 1 since 1963's "My Son, the Nut" by Allan Sherman.
"It kind of had a snowball effect," the three-time Grammy winner mentioned of the videos. "By the end of the eight days there was a little bit little bit of a Pavlovian impact as well, as a result of when it ended, people were like, 'Where's the "Bizarre Al" video?'"
The singer, whose new fare about aluminum foil parodies poor grammar to the tune of Robin Thicke's "Blurred Traces" and Lorde's "Royals", stated it took about two years to complete the album and movies.
Yankovic was able to discipline cameos by actors Jack Black, Eric Stonestreet and Margaret Cho amongst others and partnered with websites comparable to and Will Ferrell's as a way to assist with its launch.
"I wish I had YouTube when I was starting out," he mentioned. "All it does actually for me is, it means I must step up my game, be sure that I can rise above the crowd and I will not always go for the most obvious thought. I am going to should make myself a bit of bit more unique."
(Modifying by Clarence Fernandez)
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