Weird Al's first new standalone single in 6 years (Hamilton Polka): "Polkamania!" has just dropped!

Audio is out now on streaming, and an official video should be out later today too! I'll switch the post link to the video as soon as I have it

E: Video added

Updates and information to be posted here as they arrive!

Original Bluesky post: https://bsky.app/profile/alyankovic.bsky.social/post/3kxdbf3563n2a

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/7371425

The full list of nominations: https://www.emmys.com/shows/weird-al-yankovic-story

• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Television Movie (Daniel Radcliffe)
• Outstanding Television Movie
• Outstanding Picture Editing
• Outstanding Casting
• Outstanding Music Composition
• Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics (Now You Know)
• Outstanding Sound Mixing
• Outstanding Writing

According to Al on Facebook: > Congratulations to promising young newcomer Daniel Radcliffe, who just got his very first Emmy nomination! > > Hey, I just got MY very first nominations too! In fact, I'm thrilled to say that WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story received a total of 8 EMMY NOMINATIONS this morning!!! We're up for Outstanding Television Movie, Lead Actor, Script, Song ("Now You Know"), Score, Casting, Editing, and Sound Mixing. > > Winners will supposedly be announced in September (depending on the strike situation). Very, very excited about this - thanks, Television Academy!

Meanwhile, Al on Twitter: > Sorry for screaming at the top of my lungs, but WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY JUST GOT EIGHT EMMY NOMINATIONS!!!!

Alternative link: YouTube

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This is the definitive performance of this song, if you ask me. Do we know who the backup singers are? I think of of them might be Lisa Popeil.

Was anyone able to snag it when it was available on Apple music briefly? I'm not asking for direct links here, but I'm curious as to whether it exists in the wild.

It's a version of the song which has never been released that had the "Coo loo coo coo, coo coo coo coo" that the concert version has, but which was unable to he licensed for Straight Outta Lynwood.

Has everyone listened to it? What do you think?

Wendy Carlos is considered to be a synth pioneer, having come onto the scene in the '60s with her Moog-based albums. She later composed the scores for A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron. Her collaboration with Al is her dive into MIDI.

This album's been out of print for a long time, but it's available to stream at the Internet Archive.

In "Mulligan," a new Netflix animated series, Al and Questlove are the only two surviving celebrities in a post-apocalyptic world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulligan_(TV_series)

A quote from a page of Kurt Cobain's handwritten journal.