WEIRD AL PARODIES

I love Weird Al. Some of these I've known for a long time and some are new.

LIKE A SURGEON
Parody of LIKE A VIRGIN
I feel like I'm a surgeon
Cuttin' for the very first time..

A lion walks through a hospital while Weird Al writhes on the floor of a surgical suite. Just as meaningless as the lion in LIKE A VIRGIN.


AMERICAN PIE MUSIC WITH EPISODE 1 OF STAR WARS
"Long long time ago Naboo was under attack...
We all wound up on Tatooine,
That's where we found this boy...
My my this here Anakin guy may be Vader later but now he's just a small fry"


I THINK I'M A CLONE NOW--
Wonderful parody of  I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW, by Tiffany

I think I'm a clone now,
There's always two of me just a-hangin' around
I think I'm a clone now
Cause every chromosome is a hand-me-down

YODA
Parody of LOLA
 I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah,

Where it bubbles all the time like a carbonated soda,
S O D A soda..

At times I can't appreciate the parody because I don't know the original.  "SMELLS LIKE NIRVANA" is a take-off on SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT, a song whose title I have always wondered about. Now that I'm informed there was a deodorant called Teen Spirit, more is revealed.

MY BOLOGANA
MY SHARONA
First Weird Al music video in 1979
(stage performance)

AMISH PARADISE
GANGSTER PARADISE
One of many Weird Al's where I had to listen to the original, then chortled to the parody.

EAT IT
BEAT IT
Honestly, I could never see what the big deal was with Michael Jackson, but I was completely of the wrong generation for him.  Looking at the music video and watching his youthful dancing, I am very sad that he could not stay this golden boy.  How did he get so wrong and strange?

One of my very favorite Weird Al songs is an original, "ALBUQUERQUE."
Weird  Al flees from his sauerkraut cooking mother to a magical, faraway place where the sun is always shining and the air smells like root beer by winning a one way plane ticket to ALBUQUERQUE. The plane crashes and everybody dies but Al because
"I had my tray table up and
My seat back up in the full upright position..."

12 Weasels on his face and two children named Nathaniel and Superfly are only part of Al's saga.

 Al is the very best remedy I know for the stress of daily living--in two days we'll have the Presidential election. But there's always Al riffing in AMISH PARADISE:


 I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline
Got a bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
But if I finish all of my chores, and you finish thine
Then tonight we're going to party like it's 1699

Let's party.