Funky Form of Flattery
Interview with Al at the Washington Post: Weird Al’s Imitation: A Funky Form of Flattery
The article talks about the new album, the songs, the animated video for Trapped In the Drive-Thru, Al gushes with pride about the other band members, and an interesting tidbit in the last paragraph:
…maybe now I’ll take advantage of iTunes, if I can work out some sort of arrangement with my record company. Maybe I can come up with a song, record it and have it on iTunes later that week, which would allow me to be a whole lot more timely and topical instead of waiting until I have an album’s worth of parody, hoping that at least one or two of them are still valid.
Woo hoo! That would be pretty freakin’ sweet if that happened. One day, we could get new songs pretty much as soon as Al thinks of them.
(Thanks to Orthography Enthusiast)
August 10th, 2007 at 02:01 pm
That is freaking sweet! I knew that Al should be able to release songs outside of an album. Maybe this will give Al the creative freedom he deserves.
August 10th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Yeah, that would rock. I think that there should be a way to pay for individual songs. Hell, remember “SINGLES”? Am I that old?
He could always release them online, and if sales were good, the label could do a CD-single or 4 song EP or some such. Why wait for an album? That would revolutionize the recording industry, to be sure.
August 12th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
I agree! Exspecially with the rise of Apple, and iPods. Many people have access to iTunes. Releasing current parodies would be great. You wouldn’t need to wait to release the album, and hope 1 or 2 of the 5 go huge!