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Straight Outta Lynwood is the 12th album from "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is set to be released on September 26, 2006 by Volcano Records (September 30, 2006 in Australia[1]). As of August 9, 2006, the album is available for preorder on Weirdal.com. The tracklisting was officially confirmed on September 4, 2006 when it was added to the pre-order page for the album on SonyMusicStore.com. [2]

The album will be released as a DualDisc, with the DVD side including the album mixed in 5.1 digital surround sound, instrumental versions of all songs (with optional on-screen lyrics for karaoke), a nine-minute documentary, and a 24-page full color booklet.[3]

The album's first single is "Don't Download This Song". Ironically, the song is currently available to download in MP3 format at Yankovic's MySpace page and, in better quality, at dontdownloadthissong.com. Another song from the album, "White and Nerdy", is currently available for streaming on Chamillionaire's MySpace page. This album was leaked onto the internet on September 7, 2006, 15 days before its official release.

Album delay and other issues

Yankovic's teaser campaign for his twelfth album started on April 6, 2006, with a large "27" on the official site's splash page, which was later revealed to signify the then-planned June 27, 2006 release. However, the album was delayed as troubles had arisen with one of the recorded parodies. "You're Pitiful", a parody of James Blunt's hit "You're Beautiful" was recorded for the album, but was removed at the request of Blunt's label, Atlantic Records. The song was then released as a free-for-download single on the Internet in June, 2006. Yankovic then went back into the studio and recorded two new songs to make up for "You're Pitiful".

When asked if the album had a different album cover when "You're Pitiful" was planned to be on it, Yankovic stated that the cover was always going to be like that. Yankovic had liked the irony of having a gangsta rap-style album cover and title with "such a toothless ballad for the lead parody." The album cover ended up being unintentionally appropriate with "White and Nerdy" being one of the lead tracks on the album.[3]

Even though "Straight Outta Lynwood" is being released on September 26 in the U.S., apparently because of a mix-up at the label it will not be released in Australia until September 30 and it will not be released in Canada until October 3. No announcement of a U.K. release date has been made.

The DualDisc version will not be available outside the U.S., but rather a separate CD and DVD which will not include the 5.1 or instrumental mixes.

Track listing

  1. "White and Nerdy" – 2:52
  2. "Pancreas" - 3:50
  3. "Canadian Idiot" - 2:25
  4. "I'll Sue Ya" - 3:53
  5. "Polkarama!" - 4:19
  6. "Virus Alert" - 3:48
  7. "Confessions Part III" - 3:54
  8. "Weasel Stomping Day" - 1:36
  9. "Close But No Cigar" - 3:57
  10. "Do I Creep You Out" - 2:48
  11. "Trapped in the Drive Thru" - 10:53
  12. "Don't Download This Song" - 3:54

Song descriptions

  • "Pancreas" - "an homage to pop music legend Brian Wilson"[4]
  • "Virus Alert" - About "viruses and the rampant disease-like tranferrence (sic) from all your idiot friends' grubby email outboxes."
  • "Close But No Cigar" - It's "kind of about this cat who's trying to hit on several girls, but he finds out that they're not really his type."[5]
  • "Don't Download This Song" - It "describes the perils of online music file-sharing."[6]

Music videos

Although Yankovic's albums usually only have one or two videos made, Straight Outta Lynwood will have videos for at least eight songs. All six of the original songs will have animated videos on the DVD side of the DualDisc, and at least two of the parodies will have their own videos.[3]

  • "White and Nerdy" - On August 15, 2006, Yankovic announced that he planned to shoot a music video for a song on the new album in the Los Angeles area on August 21, 24, 25, and 27. He posted a solicitation for volunteers to appear in the video on his MySpace blog. [7]. It was later revealed that the video was filmed for "White and Nerdy"[8]
  • "Pancreas" - Will have an animated video on the DualDisc by Jim Blashfield[9]
  • "I'll Sue Ya" - Will have an animated video on the DualDisc by Thomas Lee
  • "Virus Alert" - Is animated by David Lovelace, the creator of Retarded Animal Babies. According to Lovelace, "just about every RAB character will have cameos in the video."[10]
  • "Weasel Stomping Day" - It will be given a "Robot Chicken video treatment" with a stop-motion animation piece on the popular cartoon's 35th episode, airing on September 24, 2006.[11][3]
  • "Close But No Cigar" - John Kricfalusi, creator of Ren & Stimpy, and Katie Rice are working on the animated video. [12][13] It is also likely the following posts on Kricfalusi's blog refer to the upcoming video as well, since the images have "weirdAl" in their names. However, Kricfalusi has only referred to them as "Mystery" thus far. [14][15]
  • "Don't Download This Song" - Animated by Bill Plympton, it premiered on August 22, 2006 on Yahoo! Music.[16]
  • JibJab will put out an animated video for the Green Day parody later in 2006.[3]

Trivia

  • The title is a parody of N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton, although it is probably also a nod to the popularity of subsequent "Straight Outta _______" rap album titles, such as Straight Outta Ca$hville by Young Buck. Yankovic is from Lynwood, California, a middle-class Los Angeles suburb that borders Compton.
  • The numbers and letters on the album cover have several meanings: "NLY" are the initials of both Yankovic's daughter and his father. The number "27" is an in-joke with Yankovic's fans, but February 7 was also his mother's birthday.[3] The license plate originally read "27 4LIFE" during the photo shoot. [17]

References

  1. ^ http://www.weirdal.com
  2. ^ http://www.sonymusicstore.com/store/catalog/MerchandiseDetails.jsp?merchId=112951&skuId=112972
  3. ^ a b c d e f http://www.weirdal.com/aa.htm
  4. ^ http://www.blashfieldstudio.com/page04.html
  5. ^ Grant, Shauntay. "Local animator helps." The Halifax Daily News, April 6, 2006.
  6. ^ http://www.plymptoons.com/news/appearances.html
  7. ^ http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=90827837&blogID=156427300
  8. ^ http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=90827837&blogID=164390645&MyToken=cebc6a08-3c1d-4b87-afb4-7b09534d5fe5
  9. ^ http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/174837
  10. ^ http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=66988948&blogID=162872790&MyToken=7f163739-2ef1-4005-b13c-b37ff670e1dc
  11. ^ http://www.adultswim.com/shows/robotchicken/index.html
  12. ^ http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/02/katie-rice-draws-girls-best.html
  13. ^ http://funnycute.blogspot.com/2005/11/project-for-weird-al.html
  14. ^ http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/07/fun-and-sexy-frames-from-mystery.html
  15. ^ http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/07/more-mystery-thats-not-mystery.html
  16. ^ http://music.yahoo.com/premieres
  17. ^ http://www.michaelblackwell.com/music/Al%20Yankovic.jpg
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