Kyle Meredith with... "Weird Al" Yankovic

“Weird Al” Yankovic on Polkamania, His Original Songs, In 3-D, and Mandatory Fun
“Weird Al” Yankovic joins Kyle Meredith to talk about his latest single, Polkamania! The comedy musician walks us through the process of tying some of the biggest pops hits of the last decade fromTaylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Adele, and others into a medley of polka music, as well as talking about how his relationship with pop music has changed through the years, and how a lack of a monoculture has made it harder to gauge what songs will be a hit. Yankovic goes on to look back at Mandatory Fun for its 10th anniversary and his decision to pull back from doing traditional albums, digs into his incredible catalog of original songs like “That Boy Could Dance” and “Lame Claim To Fame” and writing them to still be funny years later, and how he and his band can seemingly mimic any genre. The UHF star also discusses his work outside of music and how the past decade has shown him to be a much bigger multimedia artist, why he was hanging with the Stranger Things gang, and his AniJam music videos.
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