Polka Face

Weird Al told GQ:

I have had a polka medley on virtually every album. I think there may be two that I somehow didn’t put a polka medley on. The medleys allow me to poke fun at a lot of songs all at once. It’s easier for me, in a way, because I’m not having to come up with funny lyrics. I mean, it’s the arrangement that’s funny. So I get to focus on the music part of it, and to, you know, to find the humor through the instrumentation. That exercise is a muscle that I don’t really get to exercise that much, with the straight parodies.

‘Polka Face’ I think was the first actual music video that we created for one of the polka medlies. Because prior to that, I had these kind of pirate videos where I would literally take the original videos, you know, of the original artists, and speed them up so they would match my singing. So we did the, and we couldn’t release those officially, ‘cause I stole them. But for 'Polka Face’ we did an ani-jam. I found, like, a dozen or so animators that I really thought were amazing. And I said, ‘You do this song, you do this song, you do this song.’ I didn’t even ask what they were doing, I just said, ‘Have fun!’ [laughs] And then we just cut it all together, and that was the video.