World of Weird Al Yankovic

CharlesNelson wrote: I think a Vampire Weekend style parody would match perfectly with this subject matter. Based on title alone, I'm the least excited for this track out of the 12. But if it's a great pastiche of a band like VW, I'm sure I'll end up loving it all the same.

The lead singer of Vampire Weekend went to my high school. And my high school is one of the whitest, blandest, most sheltered institutions in the US.

So a VW pastiche would be perfect for this song.

I still swear this is ariana grande problem parody.

If it was (which I am doubting it is)(no offense) that means Iggy would be on the album twice! I think that we have all the parody targets figured out, unless Inactive really isn't Radioactive...

Well nirvana was on the same album twice as well as Eminem so I don't see how that means anything.

It has less to do with an artist being on the album twice and more to do with the reasonably well-established pattern for parodies and originals on Al's album. (And don't bring up SOL - that was a special case due to the unusual length of TitDT.) It's a safe bet that both "Tacky" and "Inactive" are parodies, so having this be a parody would mean three parodies in a row, and it would also mean that either "Word Crimes" or "Foil" are originals.

So in other words...no.

Who's to say weird al didn't do anything different this album?

It's not impossible. Just extremely unlikely based on what we know.

Sorry if this sounds stupid but how many parodies does al usually have on an album?

5 parodies 6 originals and a polka.

bryce87 wrote:Well nirvana was on the same album twice as well as Eminem so I don't see how that means anything.

Nirvana wasn't on an album twice.