Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
June 22, 2011 09:05 pm

Weird Al Says "Twitter Saved My Album"

nudnik72 writes "Weird Al's latest album, Alpocalypse, was released today, but might not have if his fans hadn't taken his cause to twitter Al says. Yankovic had a well publicized disagreement with Lady Gaga's management over his parody of her song Born This Way. Withing 24 hours of his fans spreading the word on the internet, Gaga's people reversed course and approved the parody saying the whole thing was just a mix-up. The King of Pop Parodies explains that this wasn't the first time a music label and the parodied artist didn't see eye-to-eye."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2vVPHjbnZII/Weird-Al-Says-Twitter-Saved-My-Album

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Slashdot

Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it is owned by Geeknet, Inc..

More About this Source Visit Slashdot