I perform this way

Weird Al made a parody of Lady Gaga's Born this Way to be released benefitting the HRC. He got news from a Gaga rep that even after encouraging the bit, Gaga has said no. So he released it on YouTube and hopes you'll make a donation anyway.

Later, word came from Camp Gaga saying she never refused the release (but an underling clearly did)--House of Gaga better get its monsters in order as someone fcked up big time shutting down the release, benefit, and creating an oddly-anti-gay PR mess for the big friend of the gays.

Honestly, I kinda love the parody. Even more than the original.



Via Towleroad, who has context.

And an update from Towleroad:


Weird Al writes:

Apparently the fact that she didn’t approve it was news to Lady Gaga herself!

Gaga’s manager has now admitted that he never forwarded my parody to Gaga – she had no idea at all. Even though we assumed that Gaga herself was the one making the decision (because, well, that’s what we were TOLD), he apparently made the decision completely on his own.

He’s sorry.

And Gaga loves the song.

I’m thrilled on many levels to hear this, because 1) I truly respect and admire Gaga as an artist and it pained me to think of her as having less than a great sense of humor, and 2) it means I GET TO PUT OUT MY ALBUM!