10.20.2006
Pop-Culture Cuisinart or "Troubadork"?
Al is the reason I don't need to listen to the Top 40 stations anymore.
To the millions of us flitting around the edges of hipness, he is our Geek Bard, our Troubadork. Unlike his prey—the rappers and the rockers, the folk-pop shamans and the techno wizards—Weird Al is, in the only meaningful sense of the phrase, keeping it real.(Slate: "Twenty-five Years of 'Weird Al' Yankovic" by Sam Anderson)
Al is the reason I don't need to listen to the Top 40 stations anymore.
