Thursday, January 31, 2013

Satire from Weird Al himself

Weird Al Yankovich may just be the most satirical music writer out there today. He has dedicated his entire career to mocking and sarcastically deriding all controversial issues. In the above video Weird Al takes on the infamous Lady Gaga, and derides her for giving off mixed signals to her audience. In his parody he is satirizing Lady Gaga's song "Born this Way". Where Lady Gaga sings to be yourself, and to embrace the way God made you, and that its not bad to be different, as long as its your true self. On the other side, Weird Al Yankovich argues that she wasn't genuinely born an outlandish individual, with odd taste and an eye for abnormalities, but rather she solely that's just the way she preforms. These conflicting messages are ironic because she sings about being yourself but not doing what she preaches. Weird Al satirizes Lady Gaga's strange behaviors that she claims have been genetically determined.

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