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May 6, 2022 9:41 PM

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Jurashiku Park ('Jurassic Park' - Japanese Version) (separately, live! - belting & musical interlude both not to be missed).
posted by MollyRealized (5 comments total)

Lyrics are in this Reddit thread.

Also, unironically, MacArthur Park is a good song.
posted by kurumi at 11:08 PM on May 6, 2022 [1 favorite]

I didn't even know that Weird Al had a Jurassic Park song until this post. If you haven't already seen it, the music video has some great claymation! Weird Al Jurassic Park Music Video
posted by Green Winnebago at 2:05 AM on May 7, 2022 [1 favorite]

Cf Parco MacArthur (La Torta In La Pioggia) (plus lyrics)
posted by BWA at 6:08 AM on May 7, 2022 [1 favorite]

Nice job, Weird Al! I appreciate the one second (visual) shout-out to Cubism at 2:24 in the English version.

"MacArthur Park" is a hilariously awful (unironic) song, despite or because of the fact that it was based on actually true events.
posted by kozad at 6:39 AM on May 7, 2022

This is fabulous. Thanks! He just fucking went for it.

(I can't really defend the claim that these are similar. But, in other smart, weird, language-shifted media, this makes me think of Caballero Reynaldo's two albums that are covers of Frank Zappa.)

[edit: Parco MacArthur is also great.]
posted by eotvos at 9:12 PM on May 7, 2022