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Alfred Matthew «Weird Al» Yankovic is an American singer, musician, satirist, parodist, songwriter, accordionist, and television producer. Yankovic is known in particular for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts.
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Latest News in english
about Weird Al Yankovic
Cal Poly radio station celebrates 40th anniversary Date: 10 Nov 2008
The San Luis Obispo Tribune -
By Nick Wilson -- Trevor Boelter, 32, fondly remembers when Cal Poly graduate Weird Al Yankovic came back to the university’s radio station in the late 1990s for an interview after Yankovic had become famous for his spoofs of hit mainstream songs. Both men got their start in the music industry at KCPR—the Cal Poly-based independent radio station celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. ...
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Censorship, or What Really Weirds Out Weird Al Date: 03 Nov 2008
New York Times -
A censorship battle has reignited over a 2006 Weird Al Yankovic song about file-sharing.
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Weird Al Explains MTV's Censorship of 'Don't Download This Song' Date: 03 Nov 2008
The New York Observer -
In 2006, MTV requested that Weird Al Yankovic censor the names of the sites Morpheus, Grokster, Limewire and Kazaa from the video of "Don't Download This Song." Al was pissed about it, but he complied. All was (probably) forgotten until Techdirt noticed the video on MTV's new music video site and were perplexed by the bleeps. So The New York Times decided to do some digging . In an ...
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MTV Bleeps out File-Sharing Sites? Date: 31 Oct 2008
TechCrunch -
I can't figure this out . This video, from MTV's video site , has been bleeped by MTV in an effort to hide file sharing system names in Weird Al Yankovic "Don't Download This Song." The original lyrics: Once in a while 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 Strangley, all ...
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The End Zone: Wells a warm-up act for OSU? Date: 30 Oct 2008
The Toledo Blade -
You don’t bring a guy like Beanie Wells to Ohio State and have him run the ball just to set things up for your field goal kicker. That would be like having Pavarotti as the warm-up act for Weird Al Yankovic. But Beanie did just that against Penn State last weekend, because everywhere he went, he got swarmed. We haven’t seen that many white shirts pounce on one guy since Nurse Ratched turned the ...
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MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video Date: 30 Oct 2008
Slashdot -
An anonymous reader writes "We've all heard Weird Al Yankovic's 'Don't Download This Song,' which came out a couple years ago, but did you know that MTV is apparently so afraid that kids listening to the song will discover for the first time that file sharing offerings exist that in its video of the song, MTV bleeps out their names? There's a line in the song that lists out Morpheus, Grokster, ...
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Music Review: Weird Al Yankovic - Whatever You Like Date: 23 Oct 2008
Blogcritics.org -
Weird Al comments on the economy in his own, unique way. "Weird Al" Yankovic has released a new single on iTunes and the web called "Whatever You Like", which is a parody of T.I.'s song "Whatever You Like". He turns T.I.'s version on its head and uses lyrics to comment on the state of today's economy.The beauty of Weird Al is that occasionally he can take a...
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Billboard.com -- Weird Al Reflects On Download Experiment Date: 22 Oct 2008
Billboard.com -
Weird Al Yankovic has weighed on his first experiment to make available a new song digitally while the song it parodies was still hot on the charts.
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