Also that guy that wrote Hamilton, which is of course nice for Lin-Manuel Miranda and everything. But let’s face it: while they’re probably gonna touch on Miranda in music history classes fifty years from now, he’s not exactly the window into a greater understanding of the last forty years of American popular music that Weird Al Yankovic is. You could do a doctoral thesis on the subject of Yankovic’s ongoing tacit assessment and analysis of musical trends, and probably somebody has. It might not even be as dull as ditchwater, either.
Moe Lane
PS: I have nothing against Lin-Manuel Miranda as a songwriter. “We Know the Way” was pretty. In fact, I enjoyed the entire Moana soundtrack very much.