Comedian and singer, Weird Al” Yankovic, is on course for his first #1 album on the Billboard charts, with Mandatory Fun!
This comes on the heels of a hugely successful first week that saw Al release 8 videos in 8 eights that basically took over the internet!
Al took some time to call Damnit Maurie, from the Roz & Mocha Show, to chat about his process for making his parody songs, the permissions he needs and more!
For the new record, Yankovic had his heart set on parodying the #1 smash “‘Happy’, but when he didn’t hear back from Pharrell’s camp, he decided to go straight to the source.
“I somehow got Pharrell’s home email address – I won’t say how – and I emailed him and asked if I could do the parody,” recalled the 54-year-old comedian. “He couldn’t have been nicer and he said he was honored to have me do the parody.”
Other artists who got the parody treatment on Mandatory Fun include Iggy Azalea, Imagine Dragons, Robin Thicke, Miley Cyrus and Al takes on Lorde’s ‘Royals’ with this parody called ‘Foils.’
Mandatory Fun is available now on iTunes!
