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How Weird Al Predicted The Future
By Christopher R. Weingarten, eMusic Contributor
The best "Weird Al" Yankovic albums work like a musical version of Mad magazine - they lampoon the times, but also capture their essence. His second and best, In 3-D, doubles as a yearbook of 1983's junk culture - tabloids, game shows, reruns, infomercials, slasher flicks, mini-malls, breakfast cereals. Ignoring the looming shadows of nuclear and economic anxiety, Yankovic boils American life down to our guiltiest pleasures and lowest-brow distractions, a point no doubt driven… more »