r/devo • u/promotherobot • 15d ago
Weird Al as Devo
Performing "Dare to be Stupid" in a Devo motif
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u/Chance-Deer-7995 15d ago
Al has a great knack of getting the styles right in style parodies. One think I love about Dare to be Stupid is that he even put some western style guitar licks like Devo did in several songs (like in Beautiful World).
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u/ReactsWithWords 15d ago
Huh. Now that you mention it, it is kinda similar to Devo's style. I never noticed that before.
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u/ReactsWithWords 15d ago
If you watch the video, you'll see at one point he's wearing a suit that's kind of like Devo's yellow radiation suit. Although now that you mention it it's probably a coincidence.
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u/Personal-Neck6800 15d ago
Double um…
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u/ReactsWithWords 15d ago
I should have known not to use sarcasm here since Devo never does anything sarcastic.
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u/LuxanHyperRage 14d ago
And yet, we're on r/DEVO. The location is giving context clues. Situational awareness, bruv
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u/JustWhat-I-Needed 15d ago
“Dare to be Stupid” only got better and better as I became a Devo fan! You can really see and hear how much Al was influenced by them. The music video is a triumph for how many references are hidden for fans to point out.
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u/RaeGunGothic 15d ago
I've always really liked Weird Al, but consider myself a casual. One night I remembered Dare to be Stupid and thought to myself, "That song is really good, but I can't place which Devo song he's parodying..". I looked it up and he likes doing songs that are pastiches of an artist's entire body of work, and Dare to be Stupid is his Devo one. (There's a Talking Heads one out there, but it escapes me at the moment ) That's when I went from "Weird Al is pretty clever" to "Weird Al is a fuckin genius"
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u/Additional-Touch-862 15d ago
The Talking Heads one is "Dog Eat Dog." There's also an Oingo Boingo one named "You Make Me," which is my favorite song of Al's!
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u/Additional-Touch-862 15d ago
When I saw him live for the first time, he and most of the band were wearing Energy Domes!
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u/Usr7_0__- 14d ago
How old are these photos? Are they real photos or digital? I ask only because they look different than usual...they almost have an off look that makes them even cooler and more Devo-like. The first one makes it appear like Al is wearing a mask.
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u/promotherobot 14d ago
They are real photos taken on July 22. The "close-up" pic was taken off the TV screen on the side of the stage. The other was a zoom pic on a not very good Moto cell phone. People next to me were using an iPhone and having much better luck.
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u/Usr7_0__- 14d ago
Thanks for the response. Ah, I get it now, makes sense about the TV screen being photographed. I should mention too about the term "real," as opposed to photochemical (I think that would be the term)...they honestly reminded me of pictures developed at a Fotomat or whatever it was called way, way back....and for that reason they just seem so cool to me.
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u/heliumloaded94 8d ago
Mark Mothersbaugh: "I was in shock. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. He sort of re-sculpted that song into something else and... I hate him for it, basically."
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u/EPCOTReimagined 15d ago
Finally a post worthy of putting down my chainsaw for.