TOO WHITE AND NERDY - WEIRD AL JARACZ..straight out of Brooklyn!

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  • What-A-Coincidence
    What-A-Coincidence

    THIS HAD ME ROTFLOL ... even JARACZ... CAUSE HE IS WHITE AND NERDY!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWs1FF-BS7c

    ..HE DOES THE STAR WARS KID in da clip.

    HAD TO INCLUDE THE CLASSIC: FAT ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc1fJ3HO_6E&mode=related&search=

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Now this is weird. "Weird Al" Yankovic's new album, "Straight Outta Lynwood," has scored the enduring song parodist his biggest chart successes in a career that spans nearly three decades.

    "Lynwood," Yankovic's 12th album, debuted this month at No. 10 on the Billboard 200, his first top 10 album ever. Meanwhile, the Chamillionaire parody "White and Nerdy," reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, besting his previous high of No. 12 with "Eat It" in 1984.

    "I literally danced a little jig (when I found out)," Yankovic says. "It's just a number, but I've been obsessing over it for a long part of my career. Even with, you know, millions of records sold, I've never been in the top 10, and it's always been a goal of mine."

    More distinctions: "Nerdy" made the biggest second-week jump of the year on the October 21 Hot 100, rising 28-9. And there may be more to come: "Canadian Idiot," a parody of Green Day's "American Idiot," debuted at No. 82 on the Hot 100 the same week.

    So what's going on here? It could be the widespread appeal of comedy or that Yankovic's legacy and fame have expanded throughout his career (his first single, "My Bologna," was released in 1979). It could even be providential numerology associated with this being his 27th year of recording (Yankovic has a running joke with the number 27; witness the license plate on the cover of "Lynwood").

    For his part, Yankovic tends to credit the Internet. "The ("Nerdy") video has gotten a lot of attention, and the proliferation of places like YouTube (has) been a big help," he says. Yankovic also has accumulated 155,000 MySpace friends since he joined the site in July -- all of which he says he personally added. "I used to be a little pickier. Now I just kind of click as fast as I can."

  • BlackPearl
    BlackPearl

    WAC, you're a WACO, LOL!!

    Jack Sparrow

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    I've been a fan every since March 1984 when late one Friday I saw the video "Eat It" premiere on Superstation WTBS' "Night Tracks". The next Monday, everybody was talking about it at school. Oh how I loved his nerdy genius. I still have tapes of his Al TV show from 1985 and 1987 somewhere around...

  • SirNose586
    SirNose586

    Weird Al spits better than K-Fed...and Yankovic isn't even trying to rap.

  • gaiagirl
    gaiagirl

    Its about time more people recognized the musical genius of Weird Al. Much more than someone who simply changes the words to popular songs, roughly half of each album is completely original material, and as funny (if not more so) than his famous parodies. Songs such as: "Nature Trail To Hell" "Slime Creatures From Outer Space" "One More Minute" "Franks 2000" TV" "Melanie" "Everything You Know Is Wrong" "Stuck In A Closet With Vanna White" "Young Dumb and Ugly" "Trigger Happy" "Albeqerque" "Generic Blues" and many other original tunes prove that Al is the most talented musician of the late 20th/early 21st century!

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