Although Yankovic is not required to obtain permission to perform parody work under United States copyright law, he sought to gain Lady Gaga's permission for his parody in early , as he has done with all his parody songs in the past. It was finally released in late September on Comedy Central 's Jokes. Alpocalypse followed a five-year gap that succeeded the release of Straight Outta Lynwood. The song is about all of the extremely unromantic and sometimes misguided things that the singer does to show his love for his significant other, such as "let you warm your freezing hands inside my buttcrack. Retrieved August 7, Yankovic, after spending all this extra effort he had to work on this while performing an Australian tour, as well as put a family vacation on hold to meet the demands of Gaga's manager did not want the song to go to waste, and instead posted it to YouTube and other music sites, indicating that he had wished all sales proceeds to go to the Human Rights Campaign charity. A low-budget video of Yankovic dressed as Jim Morrison with art-house and stock footage effects was produced by Liam Lynch. 
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Archived from the original on August 7, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved May 19, It was the seventh studio album self-produced by Yankovic. Most of these videos were animated, but a live action video for "Perform this Way" was produced.
Retrieved June 21, Archived from the original on July 4, Retrieved April 20, October 8, " Craigslist " Released: Retrieved April 29, The album peaked at number 9 on the Billboardmaking it, at the time, Yankovic's highest-charting album.
Yankovic produced a music video for every song on the record.
Retrieved April 25, The third track qlpocalypse the album, alpocalyse, which is a parody of " You Belong with Me " by Taylor Swift[4] [10] is about celebrities whose failings, no matter how minor, appear on the celebrity gossip site TMZ. Archived from the original on May 8, These five songs were later packaged as an EP called Internet Leakswith indications that they would also eventually appear on Yankovic's next published album.
The album's final single, " Perform This Way ", was released digitally on April 25,but failed to chart.
Alpocalypse
A deluxe edition of the CD was later released that included all of these music videos, sans the ones for "Perform this Way" and "Polka Face". Scott Shetler, of music news website PopCrush, rated it four out of five stars.
Retrieved June 16, Retrieved from " https: Views Read Edit View history. Style parody of Jim Steinman [4].
Alpocalypse by "Weird Al" Yankovic on Apple Music
Archived from the original on September 27, Yankovic recorded the parody, but due to a communication error, was very nearly forced to leave it off the album. Prior to the release of AlpocalypseYankovic released the EP Internet Leaks ; the EP was an experiment in using the Internet as a way to release music in an efficient and timely manner.
The album's first single, " Whatever You Like ", was released almost two and a half years prior to the release of the album, and the single peaked at number on the Billboard Hot Archived from the original Flash video on August 16, Retrieved July 14, Retrieved July 18, Alpocalypse has received moderately favorable reviews from critics. Adapted from the Alpocalypse liner notes and the official "Weird Al" Yankovic website.
Archived from the original on June 29, Keyboard work was performed by former Doors' member Ray Manzarek. Retrieved June 29, Taylor SwiftLiz RoseYankovic.
A polka medley including:.
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