I really want to believe he is simply a funnyman, a brilliant musician parodying popular music inadvertantly promoting an agenda to which he is oblivious. Better yet, he is outright mocking it. I want to believe that! I love this man so much that at one point in time I was saving my virginity for him! It's true. However, I can't deny the plausability of his involvement in something darker; so I'm exploring the matter.
I won't get too much into the details of Al's debut album as this site here gives the play-by-play complete with YouTube clips of the song. It includes Ricky, a tribute to I Love Lucy. Lucille Ball has been linked to pretty much attributing her success to a visit from the dead. You could say Lucy is a pet name for Lucifer.
Toni Basil's career is now teaching performing, choreography, production, acting, and directing for theater, film, video, and concerts according to her website. Perhaps she is deliberately grooming the next generation of puppets. According to rumours, in her video and promos for Mickey she wears her actual Las Vegas High uniform, for whom she was Head Cheerleader. According to Pop-up Video she was never Head Cheerleader.
If I'm not mistaken, Weird Al's first actual music video was Ricky. His first "music video" was My Bologna and was more a live performance. Ricky is the only video that doesn't resemble the original, probably due to the Lucy theme and possibly becase Al didn't want to be in drag for his debut. Here are some pictures (stolen from his website) of him getting into Ricky's character:
No moustache
Notice the difference in his eyes? Good actor, lack of glasses/blindness, or something more?
His next big video was I Love Rocky Road. They used dyed mashed potatoes because ice cream would melt too fast on set.
In 1985 Al released one of his original songs (in the style of Devo) as a single, entitled Dare to be Stupid
He refers to "time" a lot:
"It's time for us to join in the fight"
"You better sell some wine before it's/its time"
"It's time to make a mountain out of a molehill"
"There's no more time for crying over spilled milk
Now it's time for crying in your beer"
Now it's time for crying in your beer"
I find these particular messages interesting:
"Settle down, raise a family, join the PTA
Buy some sensible shoes and a Chevyrolet
And party 'till you're broke and they drive you away
It's OK, you can dare to be stupid"
Buy some sensible shoes and a Chevyrolet
And party 'till you're broke and they drive you away
It's OK, you can dare to be stupid"
"The future's up to you
So what you gonna do
So what you gonna do
Dare to be stupid"
Whaddya know? As the years (and Al's career) progressed, Western society became more stupid. No, I'm not crediting Al with turning us into morons. Merely stating that his lyrics were prophetic.
Weird Al's career picked up momentum with the release of his Michael Jackson parodies.
Beat It was an homage to masturbation.
His "sexy" Madonna dance near the end is both memorable and awesome
In 1996 Al's career was at a high with the release of Bad Hair Day. His single Amish Paradise was wildly popular, and surrounded by contreversy. The story is Al was told he had the green light from Coolio to parody Gangsta's Paradise and do a music video. By the time he found out a video wasn't okay, it was too late.
Amish Paradise became one of Al's biggest hits, making Bad Hair Day a best-seller.
Scared he's going to run into Coolio?
One song that didn't recieve any attention (it was sadly never a single) was yet another original, entitled Everything You Know is Wrong.
"And as I'm laying bleeding there on the asphalt
Finally I recognize the face of my hibachi dealer
Who takes off his prosthetic lips and tells me
Everything you know is wrong
Black is white, up is down and short is long
And everything you thought was just so
Important doesn't matter"
Finally I recognize the face of my hibachi dealer
Who takes off his prosthetic lips and tells me
Everything you know is wrong
Black is white, up is down and short is long
And everything you thought was just so
Important doesn't matter"
Near-death experience resulting in a revelation by someone in a mask (of sorts). Al is being quite blunt in the bolded lines.
He mentions a Hibachi dealer. I assumed this was a car model. Turns out its a Japanese grill.
Scary prosthetic lips (and face) on Halle Berry (another product of MK)
"..I accidentally stepped into an alternate dimension
And soon I was abducted by some aliens from space
Who kinda looked like Jamie Farr
They sucked out my internal organs
And they took some polaroids
And said I was a darn good sport
And as a way of saying thank you
They offered.."
And soon I was abducted by some aliens from space
Who kinda looked like Jamie Farr
They sucked out my internal organs
And they took some polaroids
And said I was a darn good sport
And as a way of saying thank you
They offered.."
Another world that exists within our world unseen to the majority. Alien abduction is popular among MK victims. It is often believed that Jamie Farr played an alien named Stobo in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964), however that was Al Nesor, who looks a lot like Jamie Farr. The internal organ suctioning would be a metaphor for a feeling/state of emptiness. Handlers have also been known to take pictures of their work (mementoes, if you will). In 1996 the internet was still catching on, and mostly dial-up. Digital cameras weren't really heard of. If you were a Handler in '96 capturing your "glories" on camera, Polaroids would likely be your choice unless you had trusted connections who developed film (or better yet, had your own darkroom). MK victims usually receive rewards after ritualistic abuse.
"Just then the floating disembodied head of
Colonel Sanders started yelling"
Colonel Sanders started yelling"
I'm not 100% on any Coloner Sanders symbolism. In 1935 he was granted the title of Colonel and started dressing as a Southern gent, calling himself the Colonel in a manner of self-promotion. It could have been purely innocent on his part. But this seems scary to me:
It feels like he's watching us
"Everything you know is wrong
Just forget the words and sing along
All you need to understand is
Everything you know is wrong"
Just forget the words and sing along
All you need to understand is
Everything you know is wrong"
Very telling, yet on the surface, strange, lyrics. What he's really saying is bolded. But of course nobody is listening: He's Weird Al! He sings ridiculous nonsense all the time! Nobody drives down a freeway with rabid wolverines in their underwear!
"I was just about to mail a letter to my evil twin
When I got a nasty papercut
And, well, to make a long story short
It got infected and I died"
When I got a nasty papercut
And, well, to make a long story short
It got infected and I died"
Duality, DID/MPD. Another death experience.
"So now I'm up in heaven with St. Peter
By the pearly gates
And it's obvious he doesn't like
The Nehru jacket that I'm wearing
He tells me that they've got a dress code"
By the pearly gates
And it's obvious he doesn't like
The Nehru jacket that I'm wearing
He tells me that they've got a dress code"
Simon-Peter is most famous for his upside-down crucifixtion. He chose to be hung that way, stating he was unworthy of dying in the same manner as Jesus Christ. He'd never forgiven himself for his denial of Jesus the day of his Saviours death. Followers of the dark one have twisted the meaning of the upside-down cross to represent their lord. I find it particularly odd that he insinuates Heaven would find a Nehru jacket distasteful.
Jesus did say that the devil wanted Peter. I guess this artist decided to help the dark one. Allegedly Gene Simmons claims that as a boy he saw his mother do this hand gesture. When he asked her what it was, she told him it was to ward off evil. I don't believe it for a minute!
The Nehru jacket; this site did an article on said jacket, unaware it was full of symbolism. (Sammy Davis Jr. was a Satanist, and the Beatles have also been linked to the Illuminati. Dr.Evil is standing in front of a black and white stripes. Perhaps this is why St.Peter dislikes the jacket, despite its dressy appearance.) The Nehru jacket is originally an Indian design.
1996 was also the year The Weird Al Show came out. It only lasted a season, as the network that ran it changed their Saturday morning line-up. Remember how awesome Saturday morning tv used to be?
Dr.Demento and Al at the "Dr's" 20th Anniversary bash , I believe at Disneyland. Dr Demento gave Al the leg up early on in Al's career.
At the Team America:World Police premiere
White and Nerdy
Straight Outta Lynwood
Does that say "Empty" behind him?
Have you noticed the strange look in his eyes yet? Its prevalent in many of his pictures
Ritual of sorts? The blond guy has intense eyes:
Why is he pointing to his junk at a kids book signing?
Checkerboard tie on a suspicious looking Teller (the other guy has a reptilian stare going on)
Monarch purple robe
Chris Robinson of the Black Crows, also Kate Hudson's ex
New album coming out
This was entitled "Holy Trinity of Pop Culture" on his website
At the Red premiere
Inverted red pyramid behind, she has a vacant stare
Living up to his "Weird" persona?
The Weird Al wiki has some notable facts about his use of the number 27.
Ure talking rubbish, been reading too much David Ike!
ReplyDeleteI remember videos of him in the 80s. He doesnt look the same anymore. I feel repulsed when I see photos of him in the 2000s. His eyes bother me and his head seems thinner and longer. Cloned?
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