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Note that, despite the title, this is not an article about Weird Al and his parody lyric writing process.
by fooblat 6y ago
Note that, despite the title, this is not an article about Weird Al and his parody lyric writing process.
- senectus1 6y agohow disappointing.
- necrotic_comp 6y agoI read this as "Weird EY AYE Yankovich", which I thought was super duper clever.
- jihadjihad 6y agoIf you are looking for an excellent piece of journalism on that topic, I would recommend this article [0] from earlier this year. His approach to writing parody lyrics is quite interesting. [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/magazine/weird-al-yankovic.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/magazine/weird-al-yankovi...
- throwaway287391 6y agoYou could be forgiven for missing that the title is "Weird AI" instead of "Weird Al" :D For the disappointed, there was a nice NYT piece on Weird Al the human a few months ago, which had some details on his songwriting process: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22861977 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22861977
- geocrasher 6y ago"Weird Al the human" I wonder how long it'll be before that distinction needs to be made on a more regular basis. "Barbara Walters the human not the Markov Chain base AI"