Weird Al – Icons of the 80’s
“This year marks the 25th anniversary of Yankovic’s first music video, “Ricky,” in which he parodied Toni Basil’s “Mickey” as an ode to I Love Lucy. The clip introduced the world to an accordion-playing spaz with a coif like Rick James and a voice like an urgent goose. Though many people at the time considered Yankovic to be thoroughly disposable—just another Reagan- era fad, like parachute pants or the Contras—he never went away. In fact, Yankovic had his biggest hit just two years ago, when he reworked Chamillionaire’s rap hit “Ridin’” as the geek-pride anthem “White & Nerdy” (”X-Men comics, you know I collect ‘em / The pens in my pocket, I must protect ‘em”). The song was Yankovic’s first track to break the Billboard Top 10.”
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