Quote for the day.
Apr. 20th, 2011 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinThis quote comes to us from Weird "Al" "Weird" Al Yankovic. It has nothing to do with Lady Gaga, except I wouldn't have seen a link to Al's blog if not for the thing with Lady Gaga. The quote comes from a blog post discussing his process for deciding what songs to include on his "essential" 2 CD collection back in September of 2009 (but still on the front page... apparently his blog is not a happening place?)
Anyway, the quote is as follows:
This is something I feel I need to keep in mind... not so much so I can quote it at people who disagree with my choices, but so that I don't feel as much compulsion to justify them in the first place.
Defensiveness, you see, is the path to the Dark Side. Defensiveness leads to anger. Anger leads to hatred. You know the drill.
If anyone doesn't like my choices, I just need to tell myself: this isn't democracy, it's art. And if anyone questions me comparing what I do to what a multiplatinum musical genius does, I just need to tell myself: the genius was talking about which of two medleys of song covers done as polkas (out of a repertoire that includes about a dozen of the things) he was going to put on his collection of novelty songs.
With that... and on the off-chance that this blog is the only thing you've looked at on the internet all day... here's an embed of Weird Al's newest song, of which one of Lady Gaga's reps evidently told him she did not approve*.
(*My qualification there isn't an attempt to render an opinion on what actually happened; I see no reason why the internet needs me to weigh in on or wade into that.)
Anyway, the quote is as follows:
Hey, it’s not a democracy, it’s art.
This is something I feel I need to keep in mind... not so much so I can quote it at people who disagree with my choices, but so that I don't feel as much compulsion to justify them in the first place.
Defensiveness, you see, is the path to the Dark Side. Defensiveness leads to anger. Anger leads to hatred. You know the drill.
If anyone doesn't like my choices, I just need to tell myself: this isn't democracy, it's art. And if anyone questions me comparing what I do to what a multiplatinum musical genius does, I just need to tell myself: the genius was talking about which of two medleys of song covers done as polkas (out of a repertoire that includes about a dozen of the things) he was going to put on his collection of novelty songs.
With that... and on the off-chance that this blog is the only thing you've looked at on the internet all day... here's an embed of Weird Al's newest song, of which one of Lady Gaga's reps evidently told him she did not approve*.
(*My qualification there isn't an attempt to render an opinion on what actually happened; I see no reason why the internet needs me to weigh in on or wade into that.)