![]() ![]() Now let’s see if he puts out any physical albums ever again after "Mandatory Fun." And after all, it’s not like you’re The Beatles – you can’t break up. It’s not “pretty” accurate, it’s perfectly accurate. So I don’t even know after this next CD if I’ll be doing any kind of traditional releases anymore because it seems like everything I do is geared more toward being online and being immediate.” “I have one more album on my contract, and I’m looking forward to doing more digital distribution, ‘cause I think particularly with what I have to do, I need to be as immediate as possible, and that means getting my material out quickly. Well, um, Al, Lehigh Valley Music has a recording of the interview in which you say precisely this: I truly love what I do, and if I ever stop working, it won’t be of my own free will.” ![]() So again, to be clear… if you were led to believe that I’m planning on retiring any time soon, I’m not (sorry, haters). But I guess “WEIRD AL IS CAREFULLY WEIGHING HIS OPTIONS AND ISN’T ENTIRELY SURE WHAT HE’S DOING AFTER HIS NEXT ALBUM!” isn’t quite as catchy, headline-wise. That’s inaccurate, and extremely misleading, and has caused more than a few fans to freak out. But the headline screamed, “WEIRD AL SAYS HIS NEXT ALBUM WILL BE HIS LAST!” Well, um… no, I didn’t. In fairness, my quotes in the article seemed pretty accurate. I talked about how quickly the industry is evolving, and how perhaps it might not even make sense to continue releasing conventional albums at that point. I talked about how at that point I might be more inclined to focus on digital distribution, since theoretically that would allow my releases to be more timely and topical. “I did a print interview recently where I talked about how I only had one more album left on my current record contract, and how after that I would be weighing my options. Yankovic quickly backpedaled, taking to his website blog in the only time he has posted in the past year to say he only “would be weighing my options.” The interview caused so much publicity that a year later, Rolling Stone magazine still was talking about it in its story Sunday about Yankovic’s new album: The disc marks the end of his RCA Records recording contract, and Yankovic told The Morning Call in an interview before his June 4, 2013, performance at Sands Bethlehem Event Center that a world where virtually everyone has access to YouTube or other Internet video sites, and far more immediately than he does with physical CDs, that his next album was likely to be his last. Yankovic’s publicist record company on Monday publicly revealed a July 15 release date for his next album, “Mandatory Fun” – his 15th overall and his first since 2011’s “Alpocalypse.” “Weird Al” Yankovic’s announcement Monday that he will release his first new album in three years has reignited controversy over the singer’s interview with Lehigh Valley music a year ago, in which he said this album could be his last. ![]()
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