Crisis Averted: Lady Gaga Grants Weird Al Permission For “Born This Way” Cover

Robbie Daw | April 21, 2011 7:21 am

When all was said and done, Lady Gaga put her paws down and granted “Weird Al” Yankovic permission to include “Perform This Way”—his parody of the NME nudist‘s smash hit “Born This Way”—on his upcoming album. Noting “a huge outpouring of disappointment from the Internet” regarding yesterday’s initial furor over the song, Yankovic wrote up a statement that the New York Times reprinted, which notes “Gaga loves the song” and “I GET TO PUT OUT MY ALBUM!” Read Al’s full take on what went finally went down after the jump. Says “Weird Al” Yankovic:

Well, this was a strange day.

After putting my Lady Gaga parody on YouTube this morning – and announcing that it wouldn’t be on my next album because Gaga didn’t approve it – there was a huge outpouring of disappointment from the Internet.

Apparently the fact that she didn’t approve it was news to Lady Gaga herself!

Gaga’s manager has now admitted that he never forwarded my parody to Gaga – she had no idea at all. Even though we assumed that Gaga herself was the one making the decision (because, well, that’s what we were TOLD), he apparently made the decision completely on his own, without any input from Gaga.

He’s sorry.

And Gaga loves the song.

I’m thrilled on many levels to hear this, because 1) I truly respect and admire Gaga as an artist and it pained me to think of her as having less than a great sense of humor, and 2) it means I GET TO PUT OUT MY ALBUM!

As promised, all my proceeds from the song (and the MUSIC VIDEO… I can’t wait…) will go to the Human Rights Campaign.

Thank you, Gaga. And thanks to everybody who had my back.

Whew!

Your pal, Al

What say you, Little Monsters? Are you excited that Weird Al’s send-up on “Born This Way” will see the light of day, or do you think “Perform This Way” diminishes Gaga’s original message in the song?