The tragedy of the greatest music video the world will never see

Weird Al Yankovic has been making parody songs since 1976, some of his finest work being 1999's Amish Paradise and 2006's White & Nerdy. He is currently working on his new album and thought he had the perfect song to be the lead single and music video for it, a parody of Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' called 'I Perform This Way'.

Sadly, Lady Gaga doesn't feel the same way. Al refers to it as the 'Gaga Saga' on his blog with the short version being:

I wrote and recorded what I thought was going to be the first single off of my new album: a parody of “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga called “Perform This Way.” But after hearing it, Lady Gaga decided not to give me permission to release the song, so… it won’t be coming out commercially anytime in the near future. Sorry.

So we have the song that he has stuck on YouTube, and the knowledge that the video that would have accompanied the persona portrayed in the lyrics would have been epic. I think this will turn out to be a major PR misstep for Gaga as the internet spreads the story.



Via: Mashable