Atlantic records, you’re pitiful!
Well, well, well. We finally have our answer to the mystery. The mystery of why there’s a free song on weirdal.com. Why there’s now only 10 songs mentioned instead of 11 on the upcoming album. Most importantly, we now know what Al meant by ’silly record company politics’ as being the major monkey wrench in the album’s release. It’s all explained in this article from NPR which in part reads
“The legality in this case is somewhat moot,” Yankovic writes when contacted via e-mail. “James Blunt could still let me put it on my album if he really wanted to…
You’ll have to read the article to find out the rest of the story. The entire online “Weird Al” community (hey, that’s you!) thanks Al for giving us this song despite what the ’suits’ want. As always, he’s proven that he’s as dedicated to us, as we are to him.
Credit for finding the article goes to Happy Steve, whose Internet connection was taken over by aliens using all the bandwidth uploading their pictures to Myspace.com and downloading illegal copies of War of the Worlds while he was getting his oil changed thus preventing him from posting this himself.
June 13th, 2006 at 04:24 pm
Wow. This makes it a lot easier to understand what is going on.
Thanks for letting us know.
So the song WAS going to be on the album? WOW. James Blunt gave Al the permission but his record label said no…
Al released the song online ONLY because he was originally given permission by James Blunt. If Blunt had not let him make the song, it wouldn’t be released.
Al had no restraint to release the song online because it was only the label stopping him on his album.
Really weird and confusing stuff… But AL RULES!!! Thanks Al for ’sticking it to the man’ or ’suits’ or whatever…
This album is going to be his best yet!!
June 13th, 2006 at 04:39 pm
I said it before I knew what Al had to say, but I agree with Stephen. Releasing this song online was Al’s way of sticking it to the man. I like how Al specified that he wouldn’t have released the song if James Blunt had objected. Just proves that he’s the class act, when the suits are clearly not.
June 13th, 2006 at 08:27 pm
Another publicity stunt using Al, like Eminem and Coolio did with the \”incidents\”
June 13th, 2006 at 09:11 pm
“Yankovic’s now-finished but as-yet-unreleased new album”!?!?
Does this mean he’s recorded all the songs? WeirdAl.com still says he’s waiting to return to the studio. What’s up here?
June 14th, 2006 at 12:23 am
Rock on.
June 14th, 2006 at 07:05 am
I”m sure there will be at least 2 more songs. 10 songs is kind of short these days for an CD.
June 14th, 2006 at 09:19 am
LOL awesome. now i can’t wait for the cd. all props go out to weird al, the true king of parody!
June 14th, 2006 at 08:13 pm
Be funny if Al uses You’re Pitiful as a hidden track 10 minutes in or easter egg.
What can they do? James Blunt gave him permission and I don’t see how the f*ck the record company and say no after that. Ultimately the artist has the say.
By rights Al should use the song, it’s only political matter, not LEGAL.
June 15th, 2006 at 11:33 am
This sucks.
June 15th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
i cant wait