Talk:Amish Paradise

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The part about Weird Al having that backwards segment done by him singing the song backwards... ah, I'm pretty sure Weird Al is having a bit of fun with his answers to the questions there. I mean, its not impossible that he did it that way (he IS Weird Al, after all) but it seems to me to be the dumbest way you could possibly do that. Is there any source for that other than his little Q/A thing? I mean, elsewhere in that section is the answer: "Well, yeah, on occasion. I get Howard Stern, Kenny G, and on my off days, sometimes even Gallagher ("Hey, man, I love it when you smash them watermelons!")

Watching the video, it does look like this is the way it was done (his mouth isn't moving quite correctly at the end, and the way in which he walks looks like it has been reversed). --219.88.80.49 21:23, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

He didn't sing it backwards, the music was played backwards, and he lipsynced it forward.

1 Removal
2 Lyrics link
3 Backwards Scene
4 YouTube links
5 Inspiration?
6 Response?

[edit] Removal

I'm removing the Trivia section; it is basically a collection of peoples' favorite moments of the video. _-M ^o P-_ 16:33, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lyrics link

I've removed someone's personal website as a violation of WP:EL (self-promotion and advertising) and am considering instead a link to http://www.alsongs.com. Thoughts? RadioKirk (u|t|c) 17:59, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Backwards Scene

I've removed some info concerning the backwards scene in the music video.

"This was accomplished by having Yankovic "phonetically memorize the chorus of the song backwards, then sing it to a backwards music track while walking backwards across a field being crisscrossed by live farm animals," [1] and then play the clip in reverse."

Not only does this sound highly unlikely, but looking at the link, it seems that Weird Al was just joking while answering a subtly humourous question. 69.40.255.154 03:00, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Again, I removed this, this time from the trivia section. 69.40.249.240 19:32, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Reguarding the backwards scene (if anyone actually checks this), I think it'd be a bit more fair to say it was likely inspired by the music video for 'Drop' by The Pharcyde ( viewable here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vxxYFN2iObw ). This video came out earlier in the same year that Amish Paradise was released and was met with quite a bit of critical acclaim due to the unique video. Has the bit about being inspired by Top Secret! been verified at all?

SheerDark 19:48, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] YouTube links

This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it. Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed. I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy. In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed, feel free to ask me on my talk page and I'll review it personally. Thanks. ---J.S (t|c) 04:36, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inspiration?

(Both "Amish Paradise" and "Gangsta's Paradise" were musically and lyrically inspired by a Stevie Wonder song, "Pastime Paradise" from his 1976 album "Songs in the Key of Life.")

This doesn't seem right. On the external link it says that Coolio claimed that the entire song was, in fact, different, which makes sense to me. And Amish Paradise was based solely from Coolio's song, it seems.