Weird Al Considering Digital Delivery For Albums
Posted by Mitch Michaels on 06.19.2008
Al feels he could tackle more topical subjects with a quicker release method...
As a parodist, Weird Al Yankovic notes "timing is off the essence." With this in mind, he's hoping to use viral tools in the near future to keep things even fresher.
"Certainly there is the possibility of me being a lot more topical," says Al. "Before I would have to wait until I was getting ready to put an album out and hope I'd be able to latch onto something that was topical and timely -- and even then it would be a couple months before I'd be able to get an album in stores.
"Now, with iTunes and portals like that, ostensibly I could come up with an idea, record it and get it out in the marketplace within a week. That's exciting."
Yankovic says he's having "an ongoing discussion" with his label, the Zomba Music Group subsidiary Volcano, about ways to achieve that. "I don't have a deal in place with my record label right now where that would make sense," he says, "but the technology is obviously there, and that's a direction I could certainly see my career going if we could figure out how to make that particular paradigm work."
As for his next album, Yankovic says "it's planned in a very broad sense, but I've given very little thought to it. I've kind of slowed down a bit as I've gotten older. I don't quite have the fire in my belly like I did when I was 23. I don't put out albums every year; now it's like every three or four years. But I'd like to do another album, and I'm sure my record label would like me to as well, and that certainly is the plan."
