Five Facts You May Not Know About "Weird Al" Yankovic

Published Jun 30, 2011

When Lady Gaga's management originally denied "Weird Al" Yankovic their blessing to go ahead with "Perform This Way," his parody of her song "Born This Way," it was looking as if the world would be deprived of a new album from the beloved satirist. Fortunately, it was all a misunderstanding; Lady Gaga loved the song and we now have, which is out now on Jive To give the record some context, we interviewed Weird Al for our massively in-depth Timeline piece. The whole thing can be read here , but if you just want a few interesting nuggets we've arranged them for you in an easy-to-digest list.MADUHFAlpocalypse