Lady Gaga approves Weird Al parody

[meegbear]

Wow I did not know how many Weird Al fans there still were out there. But as a friend pointed out recently, I'm not exactly Yankovic's prime fan base. For instance, I didn't know that his last album ("Straight Outta Lynwood") was also his most popular, making it on the Top 10 Billboard. I also didn't know that his single from that 2006s single "White and Nerdy" also made it on the top 10. So there you go. Weird Al: still very, very popular.

Even Lady Gaga apparently thinks so: after I wrote a piece yesterday on Weird Al being denied permission to do a parody of "Born This Way," I received several emails regarding the incident. Lady Gaga has changed her mind! Or wait, she never changed it because she had never heard the song in the first place, and it was all her evil manager's fault for denying Weird Al his "Perform This Way" single. As Al updates on his blog (good grief, I now have Weird Al's blog bookmarked on my computer):

Gaga’s manager has now admitted that he never forwarded my parody to Gaga – she had no idea at all. Even though we assumed that Gaga herself was the one making the decision (because, well, that’s what we were TOLD), he apparently made the decision completely on his own.

He’s sorry.

And Gaga loves the song.

Yay! All proceeds from Al's song will go to the Human Rights Campaign, because when your as rich as Weird Al, you don't even need the money anymore. You're still living high on the hog from "Gump" and you're just putting out albums for fun.

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. Apart from Coolio...

...I don't know anyone who hasn't considered getting parodied by Weird Al the final indication that you Have Finally Made It.

[Drale]

5. What are you talking about your not cool

until Weird Al parodies one of your songs.

[Initech]

7. Dave Grohl's said that in several interviews I've seen.

[blondeatlast]

9. Well, it kinna destroyed Michael Jackson's career,

;)

[MineralMan]

2. Weird Al attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo at the same time as

I did. I didn't hear of him until several years later. I could have met him and not known it.

[pscot]

3. Meta

[ejpoeta]

4. i don't know much about her, but i would imagine lady gaga would have a good

sense of humor and such a thing as a parody would probably be good for her publicity wise. i love weird al and have 'white and nerdy' as a ringtone for one of my BILs. I haven't heard much of yankovitch's stuff recently, but have always enjoyed most of his offerings.

[RockaFowler]

6. I saw him in concert once

He was great. He sang Addicted to Spuds with 2 Mr Potato Heads. It was rather funny. And well I was 16 at the time and I guess he was my kind of humor.

[progressoid]

8. here's the song...

http://youtu.be/fUxXKfQkswE

[blondeatlast]

10. Please, please let him make a video out of the song! nt