Even Worse (Which is Good): Good Old Days

Scotty Hagen is back to join us for a look at “Good Old Days,” one of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s darkest and most divisive originals.

We dig into the contrast between its warm, nostalgic sound and increasingly disturbing lyrics, the unsettlingly cheerful narrator, and the way each verse keeps raising the stakes. We also talk about Al’s darker side, the controversy surrounding the song’s return during the 2022 Vanity Tour, and whether comedy changes as the world around it does.

Is “Good Old Days” actually offensive, or is the horror of the narrator exactly what makes the joke work?

(It's not offensive... LINDA.)

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