How Did Weird Al Write This Star Wars Song?

How did Weird Al write this Star Wars song? #shorts #umactually #nerd #trivia #comedy

[MichaelMoore]

And I remember that after he saw the movie, he said he only had to change 1 line.

[OptimusPhillip]

I will note that Weird Al was also denied access to various advance screenings. He ended up paying over a thousand dollars to attend a charity screening in order to get the song ready in time for its release.

[jaycielle]

BDG chiming in with bangers like this was exactly what I hoped would happen with the new host setup and I feel SO validated right now

[yoda]

See but if I knew weird al yankovic made jar jar binks, I would no longer hate jar jar binks

[planetoforts]

Weird Al would never do something as horrendous as Jar Jar

[Martykun]

Very minor, but the song was first released as a single a few days before the album.

[bd_mayhem]

I was hoping that he had to use the track listings on the soundtrack, which spoiled the movie for the rest of us.

[martian]

Um actually, Ify really should have said "Friend of the show, Weird Al Yankovich" since he has appeared before!

[notusingmyrealname]

If you had told me in the 80's many massive stars would no longer be relevant, but Weird Al would be I would have called you a liar.

[DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

I misread this as “weird AI”, and thought it was going to be about something like ChatGPT lol

[Andrewboi]

Im gonna say the sage begins is in my opinion one of the smartest songs ever written weird al is too smart to right jar jar

[attackins]

I was almost expecting Caldwell to come bursting thru the ceiling saying "Um, actually..."

[jj-son]

"Please don't diss Wierd Al like that". Yeah, like wtf? The most wholesome dude in the industry and you're throwing shade? For shame

[itsdantaylor]

He talks about the events of the movie in the song and while they are pretty general statements there are specific enough details that I don't think he could have guessed or gleaned through second hand sources would have had to have gotten a advanced screening.

[blairbird]

I had that album as a kid. Good times.

[LoganWH]

Weird Al also made a song for 1986’s The Transformers the movie. It’s called “Dare to be Stupid”, and it plays over the Autobots having a dance party with their new allies on a junkyard planet while the planet eating dark god Unicron draws ever closer to Cybertron

[altariamotives]

this was one of the rare questions where the answer really is "um, actually, none of that happened"

[OctopusOwl]

But I remember seeing the music video debut before the movie released and being so sad that it was a spoiler of the movie.

[Matan]

HOWEVER! He has stated that majority of the song minus a lyric or two were accurate to the actual film, prior to the advanced screening.

[Altmetalpunk]

Even though the album came I out after the song was released as a single before the album release