Even Worse track listing
"Fat" "Stuck in a Closet with Vanna White" "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long" "You Make Me" "I Think I'm a Clone Now" "Lasagna" "Melanie" "Alimony" "Velvet Elvis" "Twister" "Good Old Days"
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"Lasagna"

"Lasagna" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of "La Bamba", a traditional song popularized by Ritchie Valens and Los Lobos.

When Yankovic began writing the song, he claimed:

My original thought for this was to record the entire song in Italian.

I was actually going through Italian phrase books and dictionaries until I realized that the humor would be lost on 99% of the audience, so I decided to do the whole thing in English but with kind of a bad Italian accent.

Under U.S. law, Yankovic can parody any song as long as he pays royalties to use the original music. However, as a personal rule, he asks for permission to maintain good relations with the industry. This song is an exception to that rule. Although it is a parody of the Los Lobos cover version, "Lasagna" marked Yankovic's first parody that did not require permission from an artist or a payment of royalties, since "La Bamba" is a traditional folk song that is not attributed to any specific writer.

The single was released exclusively in Japan as a mini 3" CD single.

There is no full-length music video for this single, though a shortened music video segment was shown in 1997 as a part of The Weird Al Show.

Yankovic names many Italian dishes in "Lasagna", including:

This song plays on a radio in a cave scene in the live-action/animated Yogi Bear movie.

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