The thing re Weird Al that I think is worth recognizing is illustrated by the Spike Jones Jr quote “One of the things that people don’t realize about Dad’s kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.“ It’s like really good parody has to do it all backwards and in heels, and Weird Al gets in there and counts the syllables and pours over the phrasing and word choices so that it all sounds precisely like the original, and then re-records the song, acknowledging the tiniest details of the recording, and also makes it a highly detailed spoof of an adjacent and absurdly unrelated piece of popular culture. I think really good parody has a love for the source materiel that’s impossible to fake. It takes real musicianship (or craft) to do and it usually gets tossed aside as “novelty” recording.
You gotta be fuckin’ good if you want to fuck it up.
Al will also try to reuse the original music video sets if they’re available, and bring back the same background actors.
I assure you, in the music industry, Weird Al is highly respected. If he makes a parody of your song it’s acknowledged that it means you have ‘made it’ as an artist. Rappers have commented on how ‘scary good’ at rapping he is. His range is right up there with Danny Elfman in terms of how incredibly huge it is. Accordion players have commented that he’s insane on the accordion, and does it while jumping around on stage, I may add. He learns from his mistakes and to top it all off he’s a really kind man (I’ve met him).
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -
I am fine with “the audience” -
downloading my fics
printing my fics
copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics
sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3
making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss
doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like ‘texts from the brodinsons,’ etc
I am not fine with “the audience”
doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity
feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever
Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.
You know that feeling when you see a sign that had to have been put up to address a Very Specific Situation…?
Seen one that was like that but it was “Don’t race the vibrators”
Now the store workers admitted they did that on very slow days, and it did help them when it came to explaining the strength of them though, so you know research with out doing “Research”
I was being cancelled because apparently it was classist to put feathers on dinosaurs.
Both dream me and irl me were very confused.
it might have been a dream, but feathered dinosaurs being linked to an ideology isn’t that uncommon. Them being viewed as “leftist”, “woke” or “gay” has occured several times.
I collect these examples.
reblog if you like dinosaurs, are gay, or just really like feathers
GaoGaiGar-The-King. A hopeless mecha addict.
They/Them | AroAce
Mostly Warframe and memes now. Sometimes I play games, and get Gamer Rage. Sometimes I art. Hey I have a YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDX-2biveY9QY4A8iId8AWA Here I upload various mecha anime. Talk to me about anything I, I don't bite.
