{"id":4025,"date":"2011-06-20T18:27:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T22:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2011-06-20T18:27:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T22:27:18","slug":"weird-als-new-video-perform-this-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/weird-als-new-video-perform-this-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Al&#8217;s New Video PERFORM THIS WAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/storage\/WEIRD-AL-YANKOVIC-ALPOCALYPSE.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1308604578914\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Al&#8217;s new album <em>Alpocalypse<\/em> almost didn&#8217;t get to have, what Al considered, it&#8217;s hit single. \u00a0<em>Perform This Way<\/em>, Al&#8217;s parody of Lady Gaga&#8217;s <em>Born This Way<\/em>,  wasn&#8217;t given the ok by Gaga&#8217;s camp when he first asked. However, thanks  to Twitter, things have changed. Here is what Al had to say in an  interview with Wired:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Twitter saved my album,\u201d Yankovic said in an interview with  Wired.com. \u201cIt was just an amazing turn of events\u2026. The by-product was  that people found I was doing the song and doing an album.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Watch the video for Perform This Way below.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ss_BmTGv43M?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ss_BmTGv43M?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al&#8217;s new album Alpocalypse almost didn&#8217;t get to have, what Al considered, it&#8217;s hit single. \u00a0Perform This Way,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4026,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions\/4026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}