Weird Al Yankovic Turned Down "Nice Pile Of Money" For AI Ad
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The prince of parody music has spoken, as Weird Al Yankovic draws a line in the sand over AI.
      • chewypoops@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        Weird Al is a creative. Embracing AI at all is the wrong way. There is no right way to offload your humanity to an algorithm.

        • cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.comBannedEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          But also his name looks the same in sans serif fonts and he is a parody guy. So there are ways he could get away with it.

          I’m saying he could either get away with selling his soul and not damage his rep too much, or go down to that crossroads, pull out his accordian, and potentially be the last man standing (on another pile of money)

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    2 months ago

    I am all for the proliferation of (Weird) Al in everything, particularly when using sans-serif fonts.

        • FluorineBalloon@programming.devEnglish
          18·
          2 months ago

          I think they’re saying people want to cancel ai, not AL - and playing on how in most fonts capital i and lowercase L look the same.

            • FluorineBalloon@programming.devEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              I’m sorry you feel dumb, and you don’t need to - we all have our “whoosh” moments. I only intended to clear the air regarding my long time hero Weird Al.

          • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            That’s why I call it ‘a.i.’ because fuck giving that shit the honour of capitalising it, and also as someone that sometimes goes by Al (lowercase L).

  • Acid_Burn@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    45·
    2 months ago

    I saw him perform two years in a row at the local fairgrounds. The second show he says “For those of you that were here last year… this show is exactly the same!” and it was still great! He’s one of the real ones.

    • variaatio@nord.pubEnglish
      26·
      2 months ago

      Well it wasn’t exactly same. I bet the previous year he didn’t say that part about it being the same show. 🙃

    • notsosure@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      38·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, but he’s been using that same line for six years now, twice is ok, but hearing the same joke about Bogart and Bacall six times in a row is totally fucked up.

      • Hozerkiller@lemmy.caEnglish
        15·
        2 months ago

        Did we just find the weird Al fan equivalent of the guy who plays an MMO to the point they run out of content?

  • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    The dumbass AI CEOs probably thought it would have been soooo clever to use Al for AI.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Al Yankovic has always been an awesome dude. I was a big fan in the 90s but have since outgrew him. I listened to his Greatest Hits Vol. 2 CD recently on streaming, and it’s cool, but it just doesn’t hit the same. I still appreciate him as an artist, though, and for how respectful he is of the original work he’s lampooning.

    I do fear AI will replace him for later generations. Parodies not done by Al were often credited to Al, even when they were dirty or profane (Al would never).

    I feel like he should parody You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon. I mean, it’s right there. “You Can Call Me Paul.” If Paul says you can call him Al (the song title is from a misunderstanding that actually happened), Al can call himself Paul, at least for a joke. I’m sure somebody has done this, but it would make more sense if their name was Al.

    • Deconceptualist@leminal.spaceEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I saw Weird Al when his tour hit my city last summer (finally! I’ve been a fan since I was a kid). Yeah I don’t actively follow his stuff anymore but he and the band are still great. Fun show even as an adult.

      He actually closed the set with a cover of You Can Call Me Al. From what I understand that’s a regular thing 🙂

  • notsosure@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    122·
    2 months ago

    On a different note, who the hell is this guy’s hairdresser? He must be literally rolling in money from all the royalties and cameo appearances in the Naked Gun, and still he looks like a sheep in the rain after eating a bowl of cold spaghetti bolognese. At least his billionaire chums Musk, Bezos, Gates and Zuckerberg have decent haircuts (top and around the private parts I may add).

    • vala@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      What makes you think Weird Al is friends with bezos and musk? With a net worth of under 20m he’s much closer to us than any of those people.

      The owner of the last startup I worked for had more money than this.