“Weird Al” Does T.I.: How It Came To Be

“Weird Al” Yankovic takes to his blog and offers up the inside scoop on his rush-recorded parody of the country’s No. 1 song that arrives at the iTunes Store tomorrow: “Actually, the name of my song is ALSO ‘Whatever You Like.’ For you history buffs, I believe this is the first time that my parody has had the exact same name as the song I was parodying. Just so you know, I’m only doing this as part of my on-going effort to confuse as many people as I possibly can. But I promise you, even though my song title is the same as T.I.’s, I DID change the lyrics. Somewhat.”

Big thanks go out to T.I and his manager for their support–not only was he nice enough to give me his permission and blessing for this parody, but he responded so quickly that I was able to make everything happen insanely fast. In less than a two week period–seriously–I was able to come up with an idea for the song, get legal permission for the song, write the song, record the song, mix the song, master the song, upload the song to my label and deliver the song to iTunes. Talk about instant gratification! One of the other cool things about putting out music this way is, there’s not really enough time for Internet leaks to happen. I try to maintain a certain amount of secrecy around my projects for obvious reasons… and this time, as far as I can tell, the only person leaking information to the Internet has been ME!”

Ah, God bless you, Al. Now if you could start a YouTube channel for those moments when you’re inspired to create new AL TV segments, maybe this here Internet experiment would seem like a little bit less of a wash.

WYL [“Weird Al” Yankovic’s MySpace Blog]