r/weirdal • u/Dense-Diamond-7926 • 20h ago

Picture My favorite song is cut between every song on the album

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Besides Here’s Johnny, I don’t like that one

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r/weirdal • u/Adventurous_Author56 • 10h ago

Video If You Know These Songs…

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r/weirdal • u/Abject_Put5246 • 15h ago

Picture Just recently picked this record up!

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r/weirdal • u/GoldenAgeLeather • 4h ago

Picture Close Personal Friends of Al - Merchandise Order Form c1999

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Here is the Running with Scissors-era CPFOA merch form. This is the last merch form I have to share and it may have been the last one sent out, as by the time Al put out another album (2003), eCommerce was more of a viable thing. Please check me on that. Furthermore, if anyone has a CPFOA letter or order from pre-1992 or post-1999, please post it here. We could have the entire set collected for posterity. Thanks and I hope you all enjoyed seeing these.

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r/weirdal • u/GoldenAgeLeather • 19h ago

Picture Close Personal Friends of Al - Merchandise Order Form c1996

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Dig that Star Trek font! I recall all three shirts available on the Bad Hair Tour. I got the AL TV shirt and it was eventually ruined by some mystery stains. I think it was rust. Did anyone buy the baseball hats? It seems like a hat that has “bad hair day” printed on it is a no-brainer. Bring these back, Al!

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r/weirdal • u/narrow_octopus • 23h ago

Picture Wierd Al Shrine

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Just wanted to show it off! Hope everyone's having a great weekend

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2022 Tour

The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent Ill-Advised Vanity Tour has officially been announced! APRIL 26 - OCTOBER 29, 2022 Opening act by Emo Philips

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To be pedantic...

Technically, most of Al's work doesn't actually count as parody. By legal definition, to be a parody, a song (or other work) but directly mock the source. That means songs like "Smells Like Nirvana" and "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long" are parodies, but "White and Nerdy", "Fat", "Can't Watch This", and so on don't count. Instead, most "parodies" actually fall under the categories of pastiche or satire.

A pastiche is similar in concept to a parody but celebrates, rather than mocks, the source, like an homage. It is included with parody as fair use in UK copyright law,^[1] but I could not find specific details for the US.

In satire, a work is used to mock something else, unrelated to the original. For example, Al using "American Pie" to mock Star Wars in "The Saga Begins" is satire because the subject of mockery isn't related to the original song. Satire isn't covered under the US fair use doctrine.^[2]

References

[1]: Parody & Pastiche - Copyright User

[2]: Fair use or not? Parody vs. satire in copyright law - David Lizerbram & Associates