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Weird Al's advice to a fan (media.piefed.world)
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[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 84 points 3 months ago

Please provide an archive link to this tweet. Anyone can help out and do this. You all have an hour. Archive.is is a good one.

[-] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 80 points 3 months ago
[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 42 points 3 months ago
[-] TWeaK@lemmy.today 24 points 3 months ago

https://xcancel.com/alyankovic/status/1588719949748776961 - a live link to a twitter mirror, which includes replies, instead of an archive.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 47 points 3 months ago

Sorry, forgot about the public figure rule.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 months ago

No worries, it looks like you have a lot of people willing to help out.

[-] Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 3 months ago
[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

lol, it took everyone like 20 minutes. I also had to leave.

[-] big_slap@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

spin up an instance of your favorite fediverse social media frontend and boom: instant archival of everything public people share (when configured correctly)

Weird Al is just a cool dude.

Here's him joining in a cover of Killing In The Name Of from a month ago, if anyone hasn't seen it: https://youtu.be/COZcKrUx1Ts

[-] SpaceRanger13@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 months ago

One of those rare cases where meeting a hero might not be so bad

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

Al screaming fuck you I won't do what you tell me is pretty righteous.

[-] JohnnyRico@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

He's cool and, probably, also very smart

[-] X@piefed.world 97 points 3 months ago
[-] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 43 points 3 months ago

He knows it's always been all about the Pentiums baby.

[-] AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com 52 points 3 months ago

The hero we need and the hero we deserve.

[-] Klear@quokk.au 24 points 3 months ago

The good kind of Al generated content.

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 5 points 3 months ago

I also thought "AI" at very first. AI vs Al

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Or "A1" if you're the fucking Secretary of Education for the most embarrassing administration in US history.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

This means Weird Al cannot complain about the ways i aquired his albums as a teenager.

[-] corvi@piefed.social 104 points 3 months ago

He made a song that named several popular music sharing sites while mocking industry greed eons ago. He 100% supports your actions.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 65 points 3 months ago

Weird Al is just happy if people are listening.

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 61 points 3 months ago

It seems to be working. He’s been relevant since long before I was born and I’m old as fuck

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

Weird Al has been relevant longer than most artists he parodied. Its going to be sad day when somebody finally milkshakeducks him and we find out he plays like Sea of Theives and is racist against italians.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

Weird Al is right up there with folks like Mr. Rogers and Levar Burton.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 3 months ago

and dolly parton.

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[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Right? It's weird to think he gained popularity in the 70s.

[-] Apeman42@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Absolute legend. He certainly didn't invent musical comedy, but he's a paragon of the genre and has brought it into the public eye like no one else.

I always thought if the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame ever pulls their head out of their collective ass and inducts him, it would be a fantastic tribute for all the living artists he's parodied to perform his version of their song.

[-] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Don’t Download This Song

Once in awhile, maybe you will feel the urge 
To break international copyright law 
By downloading MP3s from file-sharing sites 
Like Morpheus, or Grokster, or LimeWire, or Kazaa 
But deep in your heart, you know the guilt would drive you mad 
And the shame would leave a permanent scar 
'Cause you start out stealing songs, then you're robbing liquor stores 
And selling crack and running over school kids with your car!

So don't download this song 
The record store's where you belong 
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should 
Oh, don't download this song!

Oh, you don't want to mess with the R-I-double-A 
They'll sue you if you burn that CD-R 
It doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a seven-year-old girl 
They'll treat you like the evil, hard bitten, criminal scum you are!

So don't download this song 
Don't go pirating music all day long 
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should 
Oh, don't download this song!

Don't take away money 
From artists just like me 
How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee? 
And diamond-studded swimming pools 
These things don't grow on trees 
So all I ask is everybody please…

Don't download this song (don't do it, no, no) 
Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong (you can just ask him) 
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should (you really should) 
Oh, don't download this song!

Don't download this song (oh, please don't you do it or you) 
Might wind up in jail like Tommy Chong (remember Tommy) 
Go and buy the CD (right now) 
Like you know that you should (go out and buy it) 
Oh, don't download this song 
Don't download this song (no, no, no, no, no, no) 
Or you'll burn in hell before too long (and you deserve it) 
Go and buy the CD (just buy it) 
Like you know that you should (you cheap bastard)!

[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

Back in the days before streaming I had a large folder of Weird Al stuff including stuff that was mistagged because it was a funny song that sounded like it could be him.

[-] FryHyde@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Schfifty-five

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 9 points 3 months ago

Weird was never in it for the money.

[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

I feel like he got "fuck you" money a long time ago if he ever was in it for that.

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[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

you recorded them to cassette whenever you heard them on the radio so you could make a mix tape for your friends right?

right?

please don't make me depressed by saying anything else T_T

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[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 months ago

Weird Al is the biggest fucking Chad I swear. He's gotta have a 64 inch dick.

[-] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago

With 100TBs of RAM too

[-] ibelieveinthehousehippo@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

His power obviously comes from his majestic hair

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 33 points 3 months ago

Shiver me timbers, I buy that ther lad a pint of the finest rum the high seas has to offer.

[-] Aeao@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

In if my favorites from him is “don’t download this song”

“You’ll burn in hell before too long “

“And you deserve it!”

“go and buy the cd-“

“Go out and buy it, you cheap bastard!”

“-and don’t download this song”

[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago

Which was only available as a download XD

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Also was on the Straight Outta Lynwood album.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

You might wind up in jail like Tommy Chong

[-] Aeao@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Remember Tommy!

[-] SpaceRanger13@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 months ago

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago

if there is good in the world it would bless us with spaceballs 3: the search for spaceballs 2 and uhf 2 in the same year.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 8 points 3 months ago

That's really good. He should be a comedian or something.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

There is something about that tweet right at the edge of understanding. Almost subliminal in nature.

[-] fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 3 months ago
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