Now, I remember! That's where I've seen it for the first time!))

I own the saga edition blue-rays thanks for the post.

At Lucasfilm, they know the *song* American Pie. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q6ejiZherdyRZ4k.html (1971) The kids watching the new Star Wars movies only know the American Pie movie in 1999.

Just as how his friend Steven Spielberg loved Al's Jurassic Park parody.

Al rspected George's creation. :)

That must have taken a while.

Time Lord Gina must have taken them YEARS to get there!

maybe even LIGHT YEARS

That planet is in a Galaxy AT LEAST far far away

It takes more than half a year to get to Mars, how long does it take to go to Tatooine?

He admitted sometimes he sings these lyrics by mistake.

I often sing these lyrics by mistake

"mistake"

​@@Kate-ew6heI mistake

He does sing this version accidentally

If only Prince saw it that way.

Kurt Cobain asked not to make the parody of Nevermind about food. The end result the band loved. As a teenager growing up in the 70s and trying to irritate my parents with rock music I’m sad I didn’t discover that Weird Al song until after my dad died,

If Al wants to parody a work of yours you know you have arrived.

🎉❤😂😎👏 there is saying out there somewhere You know when your a successful performing artist is loved by near all when not only are fans are singing Along your lyrics but the PARODY weird Al lyrics too. 😂 Or you know you've made it when u get that call from Weird Al's team wanting to a parody of ur music and or videos.

Hello fellow general

General Kenobi. You are a bold one to say this out loud.

Well hello there, Keniobi

OMG I KNEW YOU WERE REAL! I HAVE LIKE 5 PEOPLE TO CALL! I KNEW I WAS RIGHT!

@@ranb00_my_beloved32 Yes Luke, search your feelings you know it to be true

lol

Impressively he wrote this BEFORE Phantom Menace came out, based entirely on fan theories and leaks.

In 5 minutes and 37 seconds

@@lgmmrm no way what

@@HufflepuffBaseball42313 Looked it up and Al recorded the single 20th of April, the movie released 16th of May, and then the single was released June 24. Apparently he used internet spoilers to write it in advance, and a charity advanced screening to confirm and make some smaller edits.

100% I'd watch a 2 hour film of this.

They can’t make anything good anymore

If it was half as good as this Disney would be doing alright!!

they made rogue one

@@valentinlageot4101 They got out of their own way and allowed skilled writers write without picking everything that would make the movie worse. It was more that Disney ignored Rogue One until it happened to get completed

Real

Saw him in concert 3 times, my neighbor was his base guitarist amd gabe us back stage tickets , I was just a little kid , weird al came over to us all three times, said hi to my and my sister talked a little signed our back stage tickets, and left a lasting impression, I ❤ WEIRD AL, still the too 3 concerts I've ever been to 😂😂

That why he's a legend, and we're left to tell his tales! 😩😩

@@scottwpilgrim he's alive and still making songs

Scott W Pilgrim yeah he’s still alive, he ain’t dead

@@scottwpilgrim WE'LL TELL HIS STORY (hamilton reference lol)

* laughs in prepubecent *

Magnificent arent they?

a good one at that

With a million more well on the way

And u want a fact ? It was recorded the same day as columbine massacre.

The fuck

In San Diego?!

@@coney6796 No, in Oslo, Norway.

Which is a crime

​@@EvelynCostarf Against Humanity

I just found out today. One of the best.

I knew about the song but I didn't know it was from this I just heard it once

That is also including people that have rewatched this more than once.

Don is a nice guy. I love him too, and his musics.

I have the power to change it from 689 to 690, the power’s too much

@@CoolGuyMcgeez well now it's 1k. Your powers gone!

@@luferaupa Starry Starry Night is a brilliant song

@@luferaupa didn’t he beat his wife?

this man is a damn genius

+Ignacio Varga Weird Al is the best.

+Ignacio Varga It's Weird Al, dude. He always makes the BEST parodies.

+Ignacio Varga this guy is the all time best at making parodies

***** AS FUCK?

Actually, Al's tours, over the last few years, are his originals only, no parodies, but he performs one different cover every night. His voice is amazing. There's a bunch on youtube that people who've been able to sneak a video, have posted. Check out his cover of Natural Woman and then Rebel Yell. His range is amazing.

I fell in love with bye bye miss American pie when I heard it on the radio as a teen because the vocals are fantastic. I just found this. Al performs it super close to the original, you could have thought the piano intro was copied right off the cd. A lot of verses even rhyme with the original... He leaves out the next to last verse though, I wish he didn't because it's my favorite (going a bit syncopated), but the original track is 8 minutes so it's completely understandable.

Im pretty sure that's meant to be paplpatine

You mean the senate

@@lorne510 Not Yet.

I AM the rhythm

You mean it's actually the sith lord we've been looking for

he outlasted George Lucas

And Michel Jackson

Cheesy Fries whos michel jackson

@Big Daddy Egg to be fair, that isn't so hard to outlast

There's a good reason for that.

Yankovic*

Weird Al is best

Ewan McGregor is the true obi wan

@@honeyorsyrup no Alec guiness

@@thekfcman you are false

"The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost" became "met up with Darth Maul, now he's toast." "They caught the last train for the coast" became "Now I'm still here and he's a ghost."

Mason Burke are you ok

@@FloorKarpeting he's having a heart attack

Bason Murke is having a stronk, call a Bondulance

I legit can't sing some songs without messing up with parody lyrics, but if it happened to the original artist... Oh gawd 🤣

mccabber24 That’s awesome. I find myself doing the same thing when listening to the original.

I once saw him and I autographed his robe

@Alexander Atkinson the fans have learned not to listen to disney on whats cannon.

@Alexander Atkinson Disney LIES

@@beefthedog2776 this song is more canon than the disney trilogy

Hopefully Disney won't say otherwise...

He that is tired of Weird Al is tired of life- Homer Simpson

@@colleen4ever so true!

INTERnational treasure, Who doesn’t love him

I don't think people realize how much work he puts into these creations. I remember seeing one of his videos, I think it was 'Fat' and they ran Michael Jackson's 'Bad' in a split screen, Al did a great job mimicking the original video. It was similar in 'Like a Surgeon' where they have that random lion walking like in Madonna's video.

It's still there, the greenscreen cutout makes it a bit harder too see and it's hanging down his back.

The song was recorded before the movie was released, but the video itself was filmed afterwards.

Sorry, the braid is still there until the end.

his braid is never taken off bud.

George Lucas also granted him an early showing so the song could be as accurate as possible

@@Azwethinkweiz17 fr ?

@@user-oq4yk1xd7d Yeah "Yankovic paid $500 to view an advance screening after writing the song, but most of his lyrics were correct, so he made minor changes; the only major change he had to make after the screening of The Phantom Menace was that Anakin did not tell Amidala that he was going to marry her, like Yankovic originally thought."

Satyr is chill

There was widespread online spoilers in 99?

JoshuWAH!! I get it!!!

Perhaps the archives are incomplete

Jakub Mejzr If it does not appear in our records, it does not exist.

Youngling who raised his hand: Someone erased it from the archive memory.

Mmmmmmm madam person

I think it's just Episode I

@@nthgth It's episode 1 through 3. The only reference to anything after 3 is "maybe Vader someday later" but Anakin is given the name Vader by Palpatine in episode 3 so that doesn't require the original trilogy.

@@JohnSmith-zl1tr No it's not. It's entirely Episode 1.

Over-dosing on laxatives is better than the entire sequel trilogy! 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

That is not exactly the highest bar.

It's better than the whole prequel trilogy for sure, those sucked. Sequels were much better.

​@sirrobin8814 ok now that's dramatic

I've listened to this song so many times I still get them confused, when American Pie comes on, I sing a line from this, then line from that and it sounds horrible

slammedniss fun fact- the singer of American pie (sorry I’m not good with names) also makes that mistake sometimes. He said that in an interview

@@user-uo7yk3iz5q I swear I do that, too.

Which is a parody of which? Help?

@@dylanvan3300 Don McLean yes, he did

3)Weird Al also looks like Ewan Mcgregor

Gotta keep the likes balanced at 69

@@kelrowland3825 He was 40 when this was released.

@@matthewallen445 he must drink that Paul Rudd water

Been a Weird Al fan from the beginning. I’ve never forgotten he can really sing, he’s so talented.

Right? How do they all get their instruments to sound like other bands so damn closely? Some earlier songs are hit or miss with that, but starting mid to late 90s they pretty much nail it every time. I'd say you have to be an absolute expert on your instrument to pull that off that well. (And the occasional guest musician _from_ the original band doesn't hurt either, lol)

Seriously. The fact that they can nail any genre or style, plus that they've been together (and with Al) for so long, makes them arguably one of the greatest cover bands in history. Major props to Jim West (guitar), Steve Jay (bass), Rubén Valtierra (keyboard), and Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz (drums). More people need to know who they are.

This and Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars animated series.

I know right!

It's like poetry, it rhymes

It's his world, and we're all livin in it. 🤣 XD

“The dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural.” But the light side is too

It's just one movie, but I know what you mean.

Thats not a piano, it actually has a much stupider name with about 9 paragraphs of information gathered from extended universe stuff that is no longer canon because disney

@@trollshamanpwnage be it’s a piano

@@bloop1470 there's no such thing as a piano in star wars

@@trollshamanpwnage tf of course there is idiotic human being

@@trollshamanpwnage yeah, but it’s kinda pointless to correct someone on it.

He performed this in October 2013 for me and I loved it!

He's clearly the geek god

omg that's adorable

@@phantomphanatic2 Yup, wasn't it? :D

I was at the 2013 one

That all a matter of perspective.

+swissnor clever.

Sheev did nothing wrong

+vincentpol It's true tho

Valpas Kankaristo I wasn't being sarcastic. The perspective literally matters whether he's a good pianist or not.

That's how Al and his band do it! They all take the musicianship very seriously, making the songs great to listen to even after you go "oh ha ha I get it" to the lyrics, lol

Well, technically he did it. There were so many adepts of Light side and only a few - of Dark. So he really brought balance between sides of the Force in the galaxy by destroying Jedi Order :)

They interviewed the kid, OH training they forbid

Obi-Wan: You were supposed to bring balance to the Force! Anakin: I did. There's 2 Sith and 2 Jedi left.

@@leesmith6739 That's not balance, though.

@@reginaldfromnigeria5206 I know I was making what's called a joke

If I was Don McLean, I would not only be proud of creating one of the best Americana pop songs ever but also one of the best “spoofs” ever. Haha so amazing the way Al treats the songs and even more amazing how the OG artists love them so much.

Don McLean even helped write this version!

Yeah, Don said he sang the Weird Al version so many times with his kids he struggles to sing his original version sometimes.

Let’s go Brandon!

@@kodakcourage7255 Why?

Maybe in an alternate universe but, alas, not in this miserable one.

He's an incredible song writer. They gave Bob Dylan, a songwriter, a Noble Prize for Literature, so I don't think it would be too off the rails to give Weird Al a Nobel Prize for Literature. I personally think his parody, "Trapped In The Drive Through," was a sheer genius analysis of relationship.

I mean Kendrick Lamar got a pulitzer, soooo

It's crazy that he wrote the song before the movie came out

I never realized how accurate it was until I actually saw the movie last week. LOL

@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 The scripst were leaked online and there were spoilers everywhere so it was very easy to do.

@@22espec online🤣 nah man that wasnt that easy like its now.

I honestly just rewatched episode 1 and thought of this song and I can't believe how unbelievably great this song is

Weird Al is the person that inspired me to do parodies myself.

@@Angie2343 cool

@@TheLittleRedVixen yup!

True but i'm tired of vevo sending me bilie elish in the i and some other bs when the song is over with a chick in a desert with a chicken

@@brunobrekalo5502 lol

its actualy midichlorians lol

I know I need this guy to write a whole musical nothing greater than a song that fits elaborate words into it

Mandalorian. There you guy, show me that respect stuff you speak of.

Contrary to anyone who fit the word "midichlorians" in movies has my utmost disgust!

“Um, actually, it’s mitochlorians” 🤓

Haha, I can just imagine how amazing that must have been.

Soyjak but actually good memories man. But anyway you still will be soyjak

Same man

Good choice for your favorite. Mine is Dare to Be Stupid.

I've seen Al in concert. He leaves nothing on the stage. He is a true performer.

AMEN

The corollary is not true. I'll never be tired of Weird Al.

When did he say that? Source?

@@feedmepaperr The Simpsons “That '90s Show” Episode aired Jan 27, 2008

@@80sgirl96 thanks I'll check it out

It's a parody the original is a masterpiece

I think they're both great. ^^

This one deserves to be the original.

Technically it's not a parody it's a lyrical adaptation.

I concur.

This sentence needs restructuring. This song needs to be sung at every major Star Wars convention, period.

@@kerrynicholls6683 he listened man

absolutely

@@thedisappearingfoxbros4001 the good ending

yes

He also paid a lot for a ticket to a premier showing Lucas was putting on to make sure it was correct. He even said in an interview he only had to change a few minor parts in the lyrics to fit the actual plot.

Actually read somewhere that the soundtrack of the movie came before the movie too, and for example one of the songs is titled "Qui-Gon's Noble End" (spoiler alert much). But still great achievement on Al side tho. Also i dont think he predicted the word "midichlorians" like come on.

He really must be a Jedi because if his fore sight was that good

@@kingaxolotl4085 If Jedi had good foresight the Skywalker saga would never have happened

incorrect, Episode 1 was released May 19th 1999, this song was released July 29th

Same lol

I was thinking how well the mournful tale of American Pie fit the tragedy of Anakin as well, glad to see I'm not the only one overthinking it ;)

True

I’d forgotten the original song. So thank you❤

That was definitely not his intent, haha. Dude just wanted to write a song about a massive pop-culture event by parodying a massive pop-culture staple. He did the same thing on his following album for the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man film, penning "Ode to a Superhero" as a parody of Piano Man.

@@swishfish8858 I dunno, I think Al is pretty deep and smart. I sing this song and ode to a superhero to my 3 year old when he goes to sleep. I think both capture the spirit and moral of the stories. With this, a kid with all the potential in the world ruined by war. In spider man, the great power comes great responsibility, as well as that anyone can be “good enough” to be a hero.

Michael Jackson loved "Eat It" and "Fat". In fact, a LOT of artists consider Al making a parody of their song a greater honor than a Grammy.

Kurt Cobain apparently loved Weird Al’s parody of Smells like teen spirit.

@@illlcrazymethod The only negative I've ever heard of was Cooleo who's okay with it now.

I heard Eminem also didn’t like his parody, Couch Potato

@@Atamask r/NothingEverHappens

Less than half of the songs on AL's 14 studio albums are parodies. AL is an incredible songwriter. I've been to 3 of his original's only tours and he is an amazing musician.

Thats why the darth maul song is "duel of the fates". Palpatine and Qi Gon are fighting over the fate of Ani.

Qui-Gon was a fanatic

Ya seriously I saw this on live TV and couldn't find it for years

Mhmmm

Ikr?

@Carter Hughes What are you talking about that's vet dream

BRO SAME!!! I told my friends about this and they all thought i was crazy

Just some bros

Warner bros

😆

He can see things before they happen. It's a Jedi trait.

@@ajh3461 well then he can see years into the future

Me too

Janitor Bob You do realize that this was recorded the same day as the Columbine Shooting, right?

@@sceneable8437 Wikipedia's page on "The Saga Begins" obviously does because that's what I was quoting. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saga_Begins

boi it was recorded on my birthday

Has it really been 20 years?

A surprise to be sure

@@simonkim8646 absolutely welcome*

@@dimedead Only a Sith deals in absolutes!

From my point of view, Weird al is the true prequel memer

HELLO THERE

It is the epitome of parody when you can get the original artist to slip on your lyrics for a song he's been singing for decades.

@@Xel_Rendwyn Is this true?

@@oninada Well it is my opinion...not sure on any method to determine the "true" epitome of something so subjective. For me, yes.

@@Xel_Rendwyn Is there a video of this somewhere? I would love to see it.

@@oninada You are talking to the wrong person 😉

Yeah and the fact it was so good

🤣

🤣

george stole the idea from alyan!

Yeah

@@Mike80375 I agree that this music video/song is a masterpiece.

@@Mike80375 Your focus determines your reality

@@Mike80375 I especially like how the force let Obi-Wan run real fast at the beginning to escape the battle droids but not to go inbetween the sliding red lazer barricades to save qui gon, or how it made the trade federation guys open the door to make sure the jedi were dead immediately after gassing them while they made no attempt to escape despite moments later demonstrating that they can cut thru doors with their lightsabers. Or how the gungans decided to leave their secluded underwater fortress to hide in the woods, basically where the separatist army had landed to hide from them so that padme and everyone would be able to find them and no other reason. Or the examples of masterclass writing in attack of the clones like "Jedi business, go back to your drinks." Clearly the epitome of writing and a demonstration of how George could only improve upon scenes that he recycled from his earlier films.

@@Mike80375it’s far from a masterpiece

It's my favorite star wars film. I know, I know. Controversial.

We should start a petition

You got a signature right here!

@@AnotherSpecialEdMom You would think such a legend would already be there.

@regalblue41 So it'll be posthumous, then?

Honestly. Most musicians struggle to be relevant for a couple years. Al’s been going strong for four decades.

You know you're kinda right

30? Try early 20s

He's 60??? He appeared in an episode of crazy ex girlfriend this year and looks the same!

Clean living... Seriously he's like a boy scout in real life. Probably a real nice guy too

The man has aged like fine hhhwine

"We took him there and we told the tale How his midichlorians were off the scale And he might fulfill that prophecy. The council was impressed, of course. Could he bring balance to the force? They interviewed the kid... Oh, training they forbid Because Yoda sensed in him much fear And Qui-Gon said: now listen here! Just stick it in your pointy ear, I still will teach this boy.

he has a few songs that are legitimately better than the originals (lyrics+)

White and Nerdy is the tops

While this song is my very favorite of his, Bob is more impressive lyrically. An entire song of palindromes is awesome.

Major Damage 69 I disagree. Bob is amazing, and the use of nonsensical palindrome phrases is a perfect parody of Bob Dylan's original. But lyrically, it's not as impressive as this. This is his most successful parody. So much so that Don McLean has stated that he often thinks of Weird Al's lyrics before his own.

seriously?!

wait what???

Yes to you two so far, he legitimately loves this version and sometimes he almost accidentally sings this version.

@@thehunterator520 i accidentally sing this a lot

there ya go.

And also with you

No One Ever Subscribes to Me So True.

Amen!!

Does it count if Im tired of Homer Simpson?

@@lerrpurr6661 whatever one where they parody Nirvana

I moved on to Rucka

Instead including all that CGI, what a disgrace

What about the droid attack on the wookies.

🤣

It's really a shame, I think the phantom menace would have benefitted greatly from this scene. Obi wan singing in the cantina was beautiful characterization for him. It really shows off his more playful side which we dont see enough of in the prequels.

Lol

Jedi Bard, subset of Jedi Sage.

He shaved between episode 3 and 4 😆

Just holding in a nut

I'm convinced that this is canon.

Oof

@@Flint_Inferno 😬

Yes we all understand it better than Disney.......yet they are making the money.

no one at disney never even seen star wars 😬

*Oof*

To be fair, the original trilogy already established that dead Jedi’s became Force ghosts so most people just assumed it was going to work that way in the prequels too.

@@shelbyvillerules9962 yeah technically he did not become a ghost, or he did, from a certain point of view. Not a physical ghost at least. and auditory ghost perhaps

@@mrexpendable1232 he did become a full force ghost in canon, he taught obiwan how to become a full force ghost in tatooine.

It also implies that someone taught Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader how to become a Force Ghost. I have long suspected that when Obi-Wan Kenobi became a Force Ghost he then haunted Darth Vader and turned him back towards the Light.

@@peterjohnson1379 he did not become a full ghost in canon. He figured out how, but the force "claimed" him too much before he could acheive it. it was also something that could only be maintained for a few years, but that was changed by disney for a yoda insert. In the EU yoda and obi wan both faded into the force not long after luke got his new jedi order functioning. Qui-gon faded long before ANH happened

That community is now composed entirely of simpletons and idiots for not turning their backs on Disney and Kathleen Kennedy is utter disgust and loathing.

Wow

Now I wanna know what two lines he changed!

@@RoseMairie According to another comment on here, there was originally a line about Anakin telling the queen that he was going to marry her

It is too precise for just internet rumors unless script security had more holes than a George Lucas plot.

Weird Al said that he wouldn't have made this song without George Lucas' blessing. So he sent Lucas the unreleased song to see if he liked it. Lucasfilm replied with "you should've seen the smile on George's face when he heard the song for the first time". He loved it and Weird Al was relieved about getting the stamp of approval. BTW, Lucas was not annoyed that Weird Al's song revealed plot point from the yet to be released movie it was based on.

Good one!!

😂

ViViSenpai ViViChan This and “I’m Han Solo”

Brilliant!!!!

And "Yoda"

It will be the credits song

U actually should make a petition

satinsguard HOLY SHIT REALLY?

@@thepi399 Yep, it's true! Charity screening of the movie let him know how little he had to change.

Are you sure George Lucas just didn’t make a movie based on this song?

@@taylormerriweather2824 No, no I am not.

Donald Lapham this story’s great! Now it just needs bad cgi and some fake English accents