“Weird Al Yankovic is America’s modern pop-rock genious” wrote Kurt Cobain in his journals, and while the Nirvana man’s spelling might have been a bit dodgy, his sentiment was correct. The accordion-toting parodist is, remarkably, in his fifth decade in the entertainment world, with his most recent album, 2014’s Mandatory Fun, his first to top the Billboard charts. Yankovic has dived into the rock world a few times – his Alternative Polka and Angry White Boy Polka include a lot of K! stalwarts, and he has parodied artists like the Offspring, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Green Day – but never more perfectly than with Smells Like Nirvana, a hilarious skewering of how impossible to understand Kurt Cobain’s lyrics were. Let’s dive in! 0.01 As the video begins, you’d be hard-p...
