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Digital Delivery Could Help Weird Al Get Topical
As a parodist, Weird Al Yankovic notes "timing is off the essence." So the accordion-playing artist, who in the past has lampooned "Star Wars," Michael Jackson, Chamillionaire and Queen, is hoping to use viral tools in the near future to keep things even fresher.
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"Weird Al" Yankovic Excited By Breakthroughs In Viral Technology [In Rainbow Suspenders]
Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip — ... with his label, the Zomba Music Group subsidiary Volcano, about ways to achieve that. "I don't have a deal in place with my record label right now where that would make sense," Yankovic acknowledges, "but the technology is obviously there, and that's a direction I could certainly see my career going if we could figure out how to make that particular paradigm work." Yes, he uses the word "paradigm." Digital Delivery Could Help Weird Al Get Topical [Billboard] My Bologna [YouTube] ...

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Digital delivery could help Weird Al get topical (Reuters)Yahoo! News: Music News 6/18/2008
Reuters - As a parodist, "Weird Al" Yankovic notes that "timing is off the essence." So the accordion-playing artist, who in the past has lampooned "Star Wars," Michael Jackson, Chamillionaire and Queen, is hoping to use viral tools to keep ...
'Weird' Al hoping to catch a viral waveHollywood Reporter 6/18/2008
"Weird" Al Yankovic said he hopes to use viral tools in the near future to keep his song parodies even more topical.
'Weird' Al hoping to catch a viral waveHollywood Reporter 6/18/2008
"Weird" Al Yankovic said he hopes to use viral tools in the near future to keep his song parodies even more topical.