If you have never heard of Tom Lehrer before, it is more than likely because you are too young to know about him, myself included. However, my parents, and their parents grew up listening to this musical genius, who was also a tenured profession at a well known Ivy League school, and who happened to be a leading scientist during the late 1940s, and the early 1950s, before he started touring the world to offer up his brand of comedy.
A comedic, and in your face performance, especially considering the day and age where nobody talked about anything that was socially unacceptable—but Mr. Lehrer begged to differ, and did it quite well too! Rather, the comedic musical fathoming of Tom Lehrer broke many social taboos of the day, equally offending the masses. But in turn, also made even more people laugh out loud. So like Elvis Presley was to Rock and Roll, Tom Lehrer was equally to comedic music. Read more
If you have ever heard the hit single by James Blunt, “Your Beautiful,” where he sings in a very high voice with a romantic guitar riff in the background, than you already know of the song that I am talking about. Now to the point: Weird Al Yankovic made a song to parody this hit single called “Your Pitiful.” But the song never really and never truly will, see the light of the day for Al, or James. You see both artists were in agreement here that they did indeed want to have a funny parody of the tune floating around for people to enjoy, but other forces that were greater than they prevented their endeavors from ever truly becoming a reality.
Calling all Weird Al fanatics, and those who may have never fancied this odd cat in the past: his newest video—‘White and Nerdy’—is amongst his best to-date, and is complimented by a larger production budget, great editing and some really funny and catchy lyrics that will most certainly make you laugh out loud more than once. Spawned by his newer album, “Straight Outta Lynwood,” which hit store shelves about a year and a half ago, where Al takes on a new satire: making fun of rap songs and rapping. Yes, I know, he already did something similar to this in his funny music video hit, parodying the Coolio Song, entitled “Amish Paradise”; (A satire from Coolio’s ‘Gansta Paradise.)
