Comments on: Doesn't matter if you're a grandma, or a 7-year-old girl ...

Doesn't matter if you're a grandma, or a 7-year-old girl ...

WCityMike — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:59:18 -0800

"Don't Download This Song." A free, and rather hilarious, download from "Weird Al" Yankovic done in the 'charity gospel' "We are the World" style, including a few gems in the lyrics like "even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong." Direct MP3 link. Music video evidently coming shortly.

By: null terminated

null terminated — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:05:02 -0800

I know that I only started robbing liquor stores after I realized how easy breaking international copyright law could be.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:08:59 -0800

Yankovic made better music when he was on heroin. Or maybe that was Steve Tyler, I'll have to check my MP3 stash.

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:09:12 -0800

Music video link, evidently. Not on Macs (crap).

By: null terminated

null terminated — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:14:48 -0800

Not on Windows either, apparently.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:17:28 -0800

From the video link: "We regret that Yahoo! Music videos are not currently supported for Macintosh." That would be reasonable, only I'm using Linux. I'll leave Yahoo to the yahoos, I guess.

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:19:05 -0800

Derail: I snuck in under the IE6 user-agent string; looks like it requires the ActiveX plugin in order to play it.

By: sdrawkcab

sdrawkcab — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:21:56 -0800

"How else can I afford another solid gold humvee?" Can't wait to see the video...

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:27:43 -0800

Hmmm. Mac users may be able to use LyFox.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:04:00 -0800

RIAA propaganda movie for students in desperate need of remix

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:17:30 -0800

Awesome video. I wonder if Bill Plympton did the animation for it.

By: MrLint

MrLint — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:18:21 -0800

if someone with more time and skill and intrest wants to decode this file http://a1568.g.akamai.net/7/1568/1600/20060712195611/music.yahoo.com/common/includes/js/common_launchapplication.js It contains the javascript that should eventually lead to the raw video file, which I think is some form of flash. the function call you are looking for is playvideos, which is replaced by playvideo and the video ID number is 35255383

By: Item

Item — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:22:03 -0800

Wow. So Weird Al's only 5 years behind in his pop culture. Biting jab at Tommy Chong there, Al. Keep up the hard work.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:26:29 -0800

Next up: Weird Al takes on the Janet Jackson boob kerfluffle!

By: chudmonkey

chudmonkey — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:28:22 -0800

Can't say I liked the video... could have been a lot funnier if it had parodied the 'charity gospel' genre in the same way the song does.

By: Guy Smiley

Guy Smiley — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:34:23 -0800

Afrob - I thought the same thing. Wikipedia sez it is Plympton.

By: fungible

fungible — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:42:23 -0800

good song. I'll wait for the video when I can download it.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:55:03 -0800

Wow, only six years behind the times.

By: joe lisboa

joe lisboa — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:57:18 -0800

Don't get me started on wikipedia, Guy.

By: -t

-t — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:57:54 -0800

YouTube Link. Be warned, the quality doesn't do Bill Plympton's work justice.

By: Satapher

Satapher — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:03:05 -0800

awful

By: porpoise

porpoise — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:51:11 -0800

... selling crack and running over schoolkids with your car... so don't download this song...

By: sparkletone

sparkletone — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:05:00 -0800

The inestimable MC Frontalot did this song first, and he did it a lot better.

By: Sparx

Sparx — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:02:36 -0800

Is every filesharing program he mentioned spyware or just most of them? A gigantic pile of meh on the song - I accidentally smiled twice. Video was pretty neat, but would have have been anyway. And sparkletone is entirely correct. Thanks - I hadn't heard that one.

By: First Post

First Post — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 01:16:30 -0800

His other recent single was a sanctioned free download too (the James Blunt parody). I'm just holding out for a new polka medley of semi-current popular hits. Those are my favorite of his.

By: unreason

unreason — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:55:06 -0800

That video is awesome. Did anyone notice the White Heat parody towards the end? Top of the World, Ma! Heh.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 04:00:38 -0800

I was denied the rhyme I wanted for "liquor stores".

By: cavalier

cavalier — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:49:14 -0800

Man, Bill Plympton never ceases to entertain. (YouTube's bandwidth).

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:02:20 -0800

Very Good. WAY may not be a stellar lyricist or possess a golden voice, but he has a consistent track record and this sort of parody is sorely needed.

By: tspae

tspae — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:16:17 -0800

Ahh, crunchy recursive paradoxical goodness -- how can I resist? *Downloads* Does this mean Gore's president now?

By: Megafly

Megafly — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:05:38 -0800

I'm just glad he has a new album coming out

By: reklaw

reklaw — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:18:00 -0800

Would have a great parody back in the days of Napster and all that. Now? Not so much.

By: edverb

edverb — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:25:22 -0800

I am soooo tempted to post the tablature. seriously, I already tabbed it (well, chord charted it anyway)... I just don't want to get Matt C&D'd by posting it here -- those bastards

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:38:51 -0800

The direct stream, according to the aforementioned LyFOX, is apparently: mms://a2swmod008.bcst.a2s.yahoo.com/p09r18/141/__S__/LAUvpwm9/10/27861512.wmv?StreamID=27861512&pl_auth=3fc89ce476a125a94646c84bfe3447a1&ht=3630&xdata=Eyn8J0.fyfuV36ip45Kw3A-43149535-1453478966&b=9e0q77l1c33ef&s=396500550 Link.

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:54:32 -0800

By the way — to all those who think the song sucks ... Posit #1: The message espoused by the song and those of the aforementioned artists — namely, that it's ridiculous for the RIAA to be so fucking nutball about this stuff and that they've gone beyond all bounds of common human decency — needs dissemination. Posit #2: MC InternetStream-A-Lot's dissemination of his song through Internet media is a value represented by the variable x. Posit #3: Weird Al Yankovic's dissemination of his song through sales of his album on iTMS, record stores, is represented by the variable y.¹ Posit #4: y can be expected to be an order of magnitude greater than x. ¹I can't get my hands on sales figures for Poodle Hat, but three years after its release, it's still at #5,116 for Music. Not bad.

By: Sparx

Sparx — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:22:24 -0800

Point taken, WCityMike - and well ennumerated for those of us drinking beer. That said - it's potential impact would possibly have been greater had it actually been funny - if it had been I would have sent the link along to none metafilter friends (all 2 of them). Weird Al didn't used to be Captain Obvious, and as I recall, could occaisionally have some genuinely clever wordplay in his songs. It seems no longer - he's just writing topical doggerel. Admittedly this is just IMHO and YMMV.