The musician’s life has been given the biopic treatment in a new film starring Daniel Radcliffe, the latest surprising turn in a surprising career
starring British actor Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame. But Weird Al, too, knows what it was like to be the goofy one who did not run with cool crowd, the bashful boy who never got the girl.last week: “I was not a popular kid, I was not a social kid. I was always a little bit ostracized, because I didn’t quite fit in.”
Anderson again: “All of his classmates hit puberty before he did. He never had a girlfriend, never went to a party or a dance. His parents never taught him about sex. ‘Stay away from women,’ his father once told him. ‘They have diseases and stuff.’ Ullman, the podcaster, who has met Weird Al many times, reflects: “He came from a loving family, a little bit overprotective, and some of the over-protectiveness maybe is what got Al interested in Dr Demento show, where he found his love for comedy music. It was him branching out and trying something somewhat forbidden, although I don’t think he was forbidden to listen to it.
Ullman adds: “He was a bit of an outcast to some degree. He had friends and his own communities but he wasn’t necessarily the popular kid and, in college, people would give him a hard time and that’s where, as a derogatory term, he was called ‘Weird Al’. In Weird Al’s hands, Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust became Another One Rides the Bus. The Beatles’ Taxman translated to Pacman. Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love became Addicted to Spuds. Michael Jackson’s Beat It was turned into, and became a top 40 hit and won a Grammy. Madonna’s Like a Virgin spawned Like a Surgeon. Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise became Amish Paradise.
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