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Is Weird Al So Popular Because He’s Reassuring?

MUSIC Posted: August 14, 2014 12:45 pm

Sasha Frere-Jones: “With his parodic versions of hit songs, this somehow ageless fifty-four-year-old has become popular not because he is immensely clever – though he can be – but because he embodies how many people feel when confronted with pop music: slightly too old and slightly too square. That feeling never goes away, and neither has Al, who has sold more than twelve million albums since 1979.”

MUSIC Published: 08.11.14

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 08.11.14

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