The ‘Alpocalypse’ Is At Hand
Jun 19, 2011 at 06:00 am by Jenn

Weird Al at The Forum on December 6, 2010 in London, England.

I stopped listening to “Weird Al” Yankovic when I was about 15, and lately I’m beginning to really regret it. I’m not sure when Weird Al suddenly turned into a grown-up, but his irreverently relevant satire seems way more intelligent and in-touch now than it did in the 1990s.

Why my change of heart, you ask? Last month I saw Weird Al on his Alpocalypse Tour, live in concert—he does a lot of costume changes, just like Cher!—where he sang his Lady Gaga parody “Perform This Way” dressed as a giant peacock.

No live performance, however bizarre, could have prepared me for the music video, in which Al’s head is digitally, disturbingly composited onto the body of a half-naked hot chick. The entire video is destined to hit the Internet on Monday, but the HuffPo has this sneak peek:

“Perform This Way” isn’t the only send-up of Lady Gaga on Weird Al’s next studio release; she also gets skewered in the most recent iteration of his polka medley, “Polka Face“:

Weird Al’s album, Alpocalypse, is out Tuesday. Until then, here’s 25 Things You Don’t Know About Weird Al.

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One Response to “The ‘Alpocalypse’ Is At Hand”

  1. casey says:
    June 19, 2011 at 1:38 pm

    Weird Al was, hands down, one of the best acts / concerts / shows I had ever seen. I wasn’t really a fan and only went because I was given a free ticket, but by the end of the first song I was sold. That guy is awesome.

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