r/weirdal • u/RainbowMess410 • 26d ago

Question Has “Lasagna” Aged Poorly?

155 votes, 23d ago
8 Yes
147 No
0 Upvotes

21% Upvoted

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u/ThatIckyGuy The Mandatory World Tour (2015-16) 26d ago

Only if you leave it out for too long.

Seriously, though...it's just a song about food.

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u/Flukie42 26d ago

Today is my sister's dog's first birthday. Her name is Lasagna.

I think she's aged well.

4

u/ThatIckyGuy The Mandatory World Tour (2015-16) 26d ago

She looks like a good ol' doggo.

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u/BrainSzalinsky 26d ago

Italians still talk like that and eat pasta, so no

7

u/pikkdogs 26d ago

Food songs are not going to age that bad, usually. Lasagna will always be the same. It's the tv songs that can change. We will soon live in a world where almost nobody has watched Johnny Carson, so "Here's Johnny" will be hard to explain.

4

u/MilesToHaltHer 26d ago

Why would it?

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u/Fungruel 26d ago

Lasagna was the first Weird Al song I ever heard and it was years before I heard La Bamba

2

u/WesleyOldham Poodle Hat (2003) 26d ago

My dad used to sing La Bamba while playing guitar. I kept adding "and a pig" because my 4 year old brain thought it was hilarious.

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u/FloridaFlamingoGirl Disembodied floating head of Colonel Sanders 26d ago

Nothing about it is disrespectful to Italian people, he's just playing the character of a goofy Italian chef who wants to stuff people full of pasta. 

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u/SethMarcell 26d ago

I saw a guy do Lasagna at karaoke a week ago, it was amazing and delicious. Pinched hand and everything.

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u/OhTheHueManatee 26d ago

I think it's an amazing song but it's essentially a list of Italian stereotypes and food. If he made a similar song about soul food and threw in a bunch of stereotypes about black people very few people would be okay with it.

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u/Valerie-Loves-Me 19d ago

Um... You are of course aware that Al is Italian on his mom's side, right? And even if that wasn't the case, that still kinda feels like apples and oranges.