April 20, 2011

Weird Al meets Lady Gaga

From Al Yankovic's Blog:
The Gaga Saga
I was really hoping that this blog entry would be all about me announcing the release date of my new album.

Sadly, it�s not.

In a metaphorical nutshell, here�s what happened.

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.

Okay, now the long version.
Quite the story and the upshot is that Gaga did not allow him to use the parody after he had written it and recorded it. So he invoked the Fair Use clause and posted it to YouTube:
Posted by DaveH at April 20, 2011 2:31 PM
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