Skip to main content

Fangirl Friday: Weird Al Yankovic

Happy Fryday! Another week conquered. Congratulations for making it this far! This week's spotlight is on Weird Al Yankovic! The purpose of this post besides needing a subject for "Fangirl Friday" is to get all the Weird Al out of my system because he's mostly all I've been listening to since November. So I just felt the need to scream about this man who has brought me so much joy since I was 10.

My story with Weird Al goes back to sometime around 2007. I was still in elementary school, and I was walking home with two of my neighbors. The whole walk home they sang "White & Nerdy". Some context: both of these kids were black. I'm a white-passing Puerto Rican and was one of the whitest kids in a school of minorities. I got bullied for "being white" a lot in elementary school. It was dumb. I thought they made the song up just to tease me and when I snapped once we got to my house, they got defensive and told me it was a song. I went upstairs and found the video on Yahoo Video, and I've been a Weird Al fan ever since.

"White & Nerdy" is one of the first, if not the first song I ever looked up the lyrics for online. Then I stumbled into more Weird Al music videos. And I'll say that Weird Al's music videos are some of my favorites of all time.

It started as a casual love of his music videos. Then after Michael Jackson's death in 2009, I was introduced to "Eat It" and "Fat". I was obsessed with the fact that the music videos were so similar to the originals. And this is when I surpassed being a casual fan of Weird Al.

Besides the fact that his music is absolutely ridiculous in the best ways, he makes nothing but bops. The number of times his songs get stuck in my head is incredible. He is one of the people I can credit with helping my mental health when all else fails. Because how can anyone be in a bad mood when his music is playing.

Since I began writing this post, I've been trying to figure out which of his music videos is my favorite. Might have to make a whole post about it. My favorite songs and my favorite music videos of his are two separate lists.

Weird Al and Daniel Radcliffe

NOW in early 2022, they announced that a biopic would be made about his life. I didn't know absolutely anything about it other than it was a biopic about him, Daniel Radcliffe would be playing him and that I was excited. If you haven't gathered from my blog as a whole, I'm a history nerd and LOVE biopics.

When I got the change to watch it, I was pleasantly surprised by how hilarious and out of pocket it was. Obviously, it wasn't the most accurate biopic, but it was crafted in such a way, that I think it did the man justice. Also all the celebrities who were casted and cameoed. All the celebrities who were portrayed. It was so enjoyable. If you're a Weird Al fan in any capacity, I highly recommend giving Weird: The Al Yankovic Story a watch. It is the dictionary definition of wacky. And Weird Al played a role in it, himself!

Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al

Daniel Radcliffe gave a great performance, and I can finally stop seeing him as Harry Potter. I'll be honest while the movie wasn't the best thing in cinematic history, it was hilarious and wacky as hell. I would like to see Evan Rachel Wood play Madonna again. She was great.

Honestly, watching the movie might have been what triggered me listening to him almost non-stop since November. BUT THIS POST ISN'T ABOUT THE MOVIE! Though if you'd like me to write a "Kinda Review" of the movie, let me know and I'll gladly do so! I'll use any excuse to watch it again.

80s Weird Al for posterity's sake

I've got a huge platonic crush on Weird Al because I think we'd vibe, but I also admire that man so much that if I ever met him I think I'd just cry. He's definitely up there in my brain next to Paul McCartney and Joaquin Phoenix, which if you know me is a big thing for me to say. He's one of the first people in my life who said it's okay to be weird.

To quote his last lines from Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, "Live the live you wanna live. Be as weird as you wanna be. Believe me you will never find true happiness until you can truly accept who you are."

So thank you Weird Al for all the music. I hope you never stop!

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Zac Efron and Garrett Clayton are Basically the Same Person

I, a 21-year-old adult, is still a HUGE fan of the High School Musical franchise. In high school, had I been a better planner, I would have asked Lucas Grabeel to be my prom date. And even though I was older than most viewers, I did love Teen Beach Movie when it came out. In this post, I am going to explain how Zac Efron and Garrett Clayton are basically the same person. Let's start at the beginning. You may know Zac Efron as Troy Bolton in the Disney Channel Original Movie (or DCOM), High School Musical and it's franchise. He is the attractive blue-eyed, protagonist of all three HSM movies. And I will admit that I was a huge fangirl for him in my youth. Honestly, now I can't stand him. But that's for another post. Zac portrayed Troy in all three HSM films, but he only sang in the last two. That's right. Zac Efron did not sing in the first HSM movie. That was the amazingly talented Drew Seeley whom I will love till the day I die. Similarly, Garrett Clayton pl
1 comment
Read more

Is Marvin from Falsettos Abusive? And Why is He Such an Easy Character to Hate?

Is Marvin abusive? Short answer: yes. Long answer: You've come to the right place. "I love my tight-knit family. I love the way they cook linguine." Let's get this out of the way, this blog, as all of my blog posts are, is 100% my opinion. Unless stated directly that it is fact, this is all what's going on in my mind. Thoughts from a fangirl, if you will. Also I have to use Spotify to link the songs, because the entire 2016 revival cast album is not on YouTube and I know the revival album better than the original albums. Also this post is going to be long because I'm actually going through actual lines from the musical. I am going to try to sprinkle some photos into this post. "Lovers come and lovers go." Listen to "Marvin Hits Trina" on Spotify. Let's start with the most obvious: Marvin hits Trina after learning that she's going to marry Mendel. Where can you find this scene? In "Marvin Hits Trina". It'
6 comments
Read more

That Time A President Conducted Meetings from the Toilet

Happy Monday! Another week ahead. This week's weird moment from history is how President Lyndon B. Johnson conducted meetings and interviews while on the toilet. I learned way too much about LBJ while doing research for this post and it is going to be a LONG time before I write another weird history post about him. But there will be at least another one in the future. Man was weird. Quick history lesson for my non-Americans who may not know who LBJ is. Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the United States. He assumed the position following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was president from 1963 til 1969. NOW if you're like me and you grew up with the rewatching the movie Forrest Gump over and over again your first introduction to LBJ might be when Forrest was being honored with the Medal of Honor and showed the president where he was "shot in the buttocks" during the Vietnam War.  I haven't watched Forrest Gump in years, but if you haven't
Post a Comment
Read more