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Students at Vermont college prepare to get ‘White & Nerdy’ in new class on Weird Al

Students signing up for ProfessorBrian Warwick's new class at Vermont State University should not even dare to be stupid, because a course on "Weird" Al.

In that time, he's released over 150 songs, earned five Grammy awards, sold over 12 million albums and influenced generations of comedians and musicians from the Lonely Island and Jimmy Fallon to "Hamilton" composer Lin-Manuel Miranda and the YouTube series Epic Rap Battles of History. Warick, a music and performing arts professor, argues those decades of crafting some of the most beloved comedy song in the modern American canon have made Yankovic just as much a worthy subject of collegiate study and analysis as Taylor Swift. He cites the multitude of new college courses on the pop billionaire, ranging from philosophical analysis of her songs to discussions of her business acumen, as the motivation to organize this new class on the man behind such parodies as "Another One Rides the Bus" and "I Want a New Duck."

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