10 Albums With Actual Hidden Messages
3. Weird Al, Less So
Believe it or not Alfred Matthew Yankovic, polka expert and parody song writer par excellence, is still going. We know, right? Just recently he released his fourteenth album of satirical take-offs on popular songs, Mandatory Fun, which features take downs of Lorde's Royals (which becomes a love letter to the uses of aluminium foil), Iggy Azalea's Fancy (instead becoming a rap boasting of DIY skills called Handy), and that one Robin Thicke song which was pretty problematic becomes a musical grammar Nazi track which...is slightly better, we suppose. Weird Al's humour tends to be fairly gentle, not exactly tearing down the subjects or original artists he's making fun of; but he does have a sharper side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNL1IYc3A7k
He may seem like a pleasant enough chap, what with his accordion and same haircut since the eighties despite all good sense but Mr Yankovic's a little sharper than people give him credit for. He's a skilled multi-instrumentalist, his songwriting ability is genuinely second to none, and he's been known to put some rather withering secret messages into his music. At the height of the Satanic backmasking scare his song Nature Trail to Hell a rare original composition from 1984's "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D featured the reversed phrase "Satan eats Cheez Whiz", and he directly admonished people for seeking out such messages on I Remember Larry a few years later, with the backwards message Wow, you must have an awful lot of free time on your hands.. That's us told. Probably too late to stop now.