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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 74 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Please provide an archive link to this tweet. Anyone can help out and do this. You all have an hour. Archive.is is a good one.

[–] Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 65 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 20 points 3 days ago

https://xcancel.com/alyankovic/status/1588719949748776961 - a live link to a twitter mirror, which includes replies, instead of an archive.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, forgot about the public figure rule.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 days ago

No worries, it looks like you have a lot of people willing to help out.

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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 131 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Weird Al is just a cool dude.

Here's him joining in a cover of Killing In The Name Of from a month ago, if anyone hasn't seen it: https://youtu.be/COZcKrUx1Ts

Al screaming fuck you I won't do what you tell me is pretty righteous.

[–] SpaceRanger13@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago

One of those rare cases where meeting a hero might not be so bad

[–] X@piefed.world 86 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 35 points 3 days ago

He knows it's always been all about the Pentiums baby.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Weird Al is the biggest fucking Chad I swear. He's gotta have a 64 inch dick.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 days ago

With 100TBs of RAM too

His power obviously comes from his majestic hair

[–] AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The hero we need and the hero we deserve.

[–] Klear@quokk.au 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The good kind of Al generated content.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I also thought "AI" at very first. AI vs Al

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Or "A1" if you're the fucking Secretary of Education for the most embarrassing administration in US history.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (4 children)

This means Weird Al cannot complain about the ways i aquired his albums as a teenager.

[–] corvi@piefed.social 88 points 3 days ago (2 children)

He made a song that named several popular music sharing sites while mocking industry greed eons ago. He 100% supports your actions.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Weird Al is just happy if people are listening.

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 52 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It seems to be working. He’s been relevant since long before I was born and I’m old as fuck

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Weird Al has been relevant longer than most artists he parodied. Its going to be sad day when somebody finally milkshakeducks him and we find out he plays like Sea of Theives and is racist against italians.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

milkshakeducks

TIL that word is so popular that it even has its own Wikipedia page, yet I haven't even heard of the term.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Weird Al is right up there with folks like Mr. Rogers and Levar Burton.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

and dolly parton.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Absolute legend. He certainly didn't invent musical comedy, but he's a paragon of the genre and has brought it into the public eye like no one else.

I always thought if the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame ever pulls their head out of their collective ass and inducts him, it would be a fantastic tribute for all the living artists he's parodied to perform his version of their song.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Right? It's weird to think he gained popularity in the 70s.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Don’t Download This Song

Once in awhile, 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 
But deep in your heart, you know the guilt would drive you mad 
And the shame would leave a permanent scar 
'Cause you start out stealing songs, then you're robbing liquor stores 
And selling crack and running over school kids with your car!

So don't download this song 
The record store's where you belong 
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should 
Oh, don't download this song!

Oh, you don't want to mess with the R-I-double-A 
They'll sue you if you burn that CD-R 
It doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a seven-year-old girl 
They'll treat you like the evil, hard bitten, criminal scum you are!

So don't download this song 
Don't go pirating music all day long 
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should 
Oh, don't download this song!

Don't take away money 
From artists just like me 
How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee? 
And diamond-studded swimming pools 
These things don't grow on trees 
So all I ask is everybody please…

Don't download this song (don't do it, no, no) 
Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong (you can just ask him) 
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should (you really should) 
Oh, don't download this song!

Don't download this song (oh, please don't you do it or you) 
Might wind up in jail like Tommy Chong (remember Tommy) 
Go and buy the CD (right now) 
Like you know that you should (go out and buy it) 
Oh, don't download this song 
Don't download this song (no, no, no, no, no, no) 
Or you'll burn in hell before too long (and you deserve it) 
Go and buy the CD (just buy it) 
Like you know that you should (you cheap bastard)!

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Weird was never in it for the money.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

I feel like he got "fuck you" money a long time ago if he ever was in it for that.

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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Back in the days before streaming I had a large folder of Weird Al stuff including stuff that was mistagged because it was a funny song that sounded like it could be him.

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

you recorded them to cassette whenever you heard them on the radio so you could make a mix tape for your friends right?

right?

please don't make me depressed by saying anything else T_T

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[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In if my favorites from him is “don’t download this song”

“You’ll burn in hell before too long “

“And you deserve it!”

“go and buy the cd-“

“Go out and buy it, you cheap bastard!”

“-and don’t download this song”

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Which was only available as a download XD

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Also was on the Straight Outta Lynwood album.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You might wind up in jail like Tommy Chong

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Remember Tommy!

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 30 points 3 days ago

Shiver me timbers, I buy that ther lad a pint of the finest rum the high seas has to offer.

[–] SpaceRanger13@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 days ago

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

if there is good in the world it would bless us with spaceballs 3: the search for spaceballs 2 and uhf 2 in the same year.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 7 points 3 days ago

That's really good. He should be a comedian or something.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

There is something about that tweet right at the edge of understanding. Almost subliminal in nature.

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