CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio – If you ask the average music fan for the type of people who attend Weird Al Yankovic concerts, they would likely say 12-year-old boys and 30-year-old men. They wouldn’t be entirely wrong.
But after more than 40 years of smart and silly parodies and “in the style of” songs, Weird Al is a pop culture institution, and Saturday night at Blossom, the energetic 65-year-old singer-songwriter-accordionist gave his multigenerational audience two hours of comedy music hits, costume changes and constant reminders via quick-cut video montages that he has been embedded in pop culture for a long time.
There were still plenty of 12-year-old boys and 30-year-old men, (white and nerdy) but also multi-generational families in bright Hawaiian shirts and curly wigs, couples, friend groups in gangsta Amish getups and various other visual cues and references from Yankovic’s storied and unlikely career as the most successful comedy musical artist ever…