Earlier I posted about Lady Gaga refusing to let Weird Al parody her song and thus deprive us of possibly the greatest music video of all time. A shrewd piece of PR damage control has suddenly turned it all around.
You can read about on Al's blog but the short version seems to be:
Al post song on YouTube and writes blog entry
Internet watches/reads and starts kicking up a fuss
Gaga's PR monsters release a statement saying their Mother Monster knew nothing about this
Manager takes blame saying that it was him saying no and Gaga never knew
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.
