Accordion genius
Yankovic is an auteur—yeah, you read that right—with a vision that extends beyond bologna jokes and fat suits, though it also includes both. If you’re lucky enough to have seen his 1989 film UHF, you know what I’m talking about.
So covers an interesting article in The Village Voice by Jonathan Zwickel. I don’t know where to begin, but Weird Al’s latest album Straight Out of Lynwood is just as brilliant as anything else he’s done, and I think it requires and understanding of a huge range of music to see how funny and accurate it is. To hear him put 50 Cent’s atrociously heinous creation, “Candy Shop” put to a barber-shop quartet with an accordian-driven polka beat is more fun than anything else I’ve heard recently.
What can I say, I’m white and nerdy.
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