Lady Gaga, Weird Al Find 'Happy Ending' After Parody Beef

'She's totally cool and she really likes the parody,' Al tells MTV News of 'Perform This Way.'
By Jocelyn Vena


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All is well between Lady Gaga and "Weird Al" Yankovic. After some initial drama over his parody of "Born This Way," Gaga eventually gave Al her stamp of approval.

When MTV News caught up with Weird Al on Monday night at the "Bad Teacher" premiere in New York City, he told us the pop star is actually of a fan of his track, "Perform This Way."

"Where we stand is my music video 'Perform This Way' world-premiered [Monday] and is doing quite well," he said. "My album comes out [today]," he said of Alpocalypse, which was released on Tuesday (June 21). "It all got resolved."

On the Gaga parody track, he sings, "Got my straight jacket today/ It's made of gold lamé/ No, not because I'm crazy/ I perform this way." Then he goes on to lampoon, among other topics, that famous MTV VMA meat dress: "I strap prime rib to my feet/ Cover myself with raw meat/ I'll bet you've never seen a skirt steak worn this way."

Initially, it seemed Gaga wasn't too pleased with the song's lyrics, but according to Al, she has come around. So, what exactly happened between Al and Mother Monster before things got straightened out?

"It was a big misunderstanding, miscommunication," he explained. "The bottom line is it's a happy ending. Lady Gaga approves it; she's totally cool and she really likes the parody."

In the brand-new video, Al portrays Gaga in some of her signature looks, from her Grammy egg to her bubble dress, but it wasn't easy to narrow down wardrobe for the clip.

"It's a challenge because she's got so many different looks," he said. "I mean, she's got such a bigger-than-life persona, so a big part of figuring out the video is figuring out how we're going to do two-dozen costumes in three minutes. On top of putting my head on a woman's body, that was difficult as well. So [making the video took] a lot of CG effects and wardrobe, basically."

Gaga isn't the only superstar lampooned on Alpocalypse. Al also has some fun with Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus and T.I., to name a few. "It's very eclectic, it's very odd, which I guess you come to expect from a guy like me."

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Dee-1 Has A Message For Jay-Z, 50 and Lil Wayne

'I wasn't gonna write it as a dis song to try to go at their necks,' Dee-1 tells Mixtape Daily of his breakout single.
By Rob Markman


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Fire Starter: Dee-1
Dee-1 is no dummy. The New Orleans native and Louisiana State University grad picked up rapping as a hobby in his college dorm room and devised a plan to get paid. It may have taken a little longer than expected but the former middle-school teacher left the classroom and has learned a new hustle through hip-hop.

"I first started wanting to rap as just a hobby when I first started college. I didn't really have anything better to do with my time, so I was like, 'Let me just freestyle around my dorm room with my boys,' " Dee-1 told Mixtape Daily. "But once I realized I was good at it, I started to take it more serious. I was like, 'You know what? I have a voice that can be used to entertain people but also to inspire change, in a good way.' "

Dee-1 took his yearning for change and applied it to his 2010 outspoken single "Jay, 50 & Weezy." In the song, the young MC holds an imaginary conversation with Hov, 50 Cent and Lil Wayne, questioning their subject matter. The track helped put him on the map partly because of the sheer audacity that he displayed by calling out three of the game's biggest rappers, but mostly because of the song's strong message. "I wrote that record when I was still teaching middle school, so every single day, I'm face to face with the kids who are influenced by these brothers. I see how much they want to walk like them, talk like them, just be like them," he explained.

Through his experience as a teacher, Dee-1 saw firsthand that rappers are in fact role models. Bold? Yes, but Dee stops short of labeling the track a dis record. "I don't know if you can tell by looking at me but I'm not an intimidating type of guy or violent dude, so I wasn't gonna write it as a dis song to try to go at their necks," he said. "But I'm also not a scary man; I'm very bold and very confident in the person that God made me."

That confidence has translated to his work. In March, Dee-1 dropped his fifth mixtape, I Hope They Hear Me, Vol. 2, to much online fanfare and he recently toured with Killer Mike, Young Dro and Pac Div. The grind is paying off so far, and the N.O. representative has already taken meetings with Universal, Jive and Atlantic, though he's in no rush to sign.

"The patience comes from having a purpose, and my purpose is to have longevity in the game," he said. "If I was desperate for a check right now, like if I just wanted a $100,000 to put in my pocket, I might have signed by this time. But I'm not that desperate and I'm not hurting for money."

Smart man!

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Glee?s Cory Monteith Talks Drug and Alcohol Past

Finn Hudson has pretty much lived on the straight and narrow, and personally I enjoy the naivete that is Finn. It was quite the opposite for Cory Monteith, the 29-year-old (wow, I didn’t realize he was 29!) Glee star who portrays the high school quarterback, who had some troubling teenage years that involved drugs and alcohol. We’ve got the deets here! In a very revealing interview with Parade Magazine that comes out this weekend in your paper, Monteith exclusively spoke to the mag about how at the young age of 13, he was already getting drunk, smoking pot and ditching school. Monteith, who hails from British Columbia, admitted that by the time he was 16 years old he said, “I was out of control.” His drug use, which started out with pot, quickly moved on to ‘anything and everything’. He had his first rehab stint at the age of 19, after an intervention was orchestrated by his family. Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before he start using again. What made him finally stop abusing substances? He had stolen a large sum of moolah from a member of his family, got caught and was told he had to get clean or they [...]

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Patti Stanger: Jennifer Aniston "Not a Good Picker"


Jennifer Aniston's relationship with Justin Theroux is generating a lot of attention. The Millionaire Matchmaker, Patii Stanger, is the latest to chime in.

Not in the most glowing fashion, either.

"I like him for her. I think he’s a good fit for her," she told TooFab of Aniston's new man, but she has concerns over the whole Heidi Bivens situation.

"How you get a guy is how you lose a guy," she said, referring to Theroux's 14-year relationship with his ex, and Jen allegedly pulling an Angelina.

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"He was like, 'Bye! You were my training wheels. Now I'm going off to get my real Schwinn.' I mean what IS that? She's not a great picker, really."

"She had John Mayer. C'mon, let's be serious."

Hard to argue with her regarding that douche.

As for reports of Aniston and Theroux moving in together, the Bravo star says, "That's too soon. That's way too 'I wanna marry you' creepy."

"And she needs to think long and hard about that. She makes way more money, there better be a pre-nup. He needs to court her first."

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Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/06/patti-stanger-jennifer-aniston-not-a-good-picker/

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