“Dare to Be Stupid”
Single by "Weird Al" Yankovic from the album Dare to Be Stupid
Released	August 1986 (1986-08)
Recorded	January 3, 1985
Genre	Comedy
Length	3:23
Writer(s)	"Weird Al" Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic singles chronology
"One More Minute" (1985) "Dare to be Supid" (1985) "Living with a Hernia" (1986)
Dare to Be Stupid track listing
"Like a Surgeon" "Dare to Be Stupid" "I Want a New Duck" "One More Minute" "Yoda" "George of the Jungle" "Slime Creatures From Outer Space" "Girls Just Want To Have Lunch" "This is the Life" "Cable TV" "Hooked on Polkas"

"Dare to Be Stupid" is an original song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a musical pastiche (or "style parody") of the band Devo, and was featured in The Transformers: The Movie. It was later released as a double a-side along with "The Touch" by Stan Bush. A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... This article is about the musician. ... Dare to Be Stupid is the third album by Weird Al Yankovic, released in 1985. ... For other uses, see August (disambiguation). ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... This article is about the musician. ... One More Minute is an original song by Weird Al Yankovic. ... Living with a Hernia is a song by Weird Al Yankovic. ... Dare to Be Stupid is the third album by Weird Al Yankovic, released in 1985. ... Like a Surgeon is a song by Weird Al Yankovic. ... Dare to Be Stupid track listing Like a Surgeon Dare to Be Stupid I Want a New Duck One More Minute Yoda George of the Jungle Slime Creatures From Outer Space Girls Just Want To Have Lunch This is the Life Cable TV Hooked on Polkas I Want a New... One More Minute is an original song by Weird Al Yankovic. ... Yoda is a song derived from the song Lola by The Kinks parodied by Weird Al Yankovic. ... Dare to Be Stupid track listing Like a Surgeon Dare to Be Stupid I Want a New Duck One More Minute Yoda George of the Jungle Slime Creatures From Outer Space Girls Just Want To Have Lunch This is the Life Cable TV Hooked on Polkas This Is The Life... Polka Medleys are the trademark of American singer, musician, satirist, parodist, songwriter, and accordionist Weird Al Yankovic. ... This article is about the musician. ... The word pastiche describes a literary or other artistic genre. ... Devo (pronounced DEE-vo or dee-VO, often spelled DEVO or DEV-O) is an American New Wave group formed in Akron, Ohio in 1972. ... Stan Bush is an American singer whose most notable work include the songs Dare and The Touch from the soundtrack to the 1986 animated film Transformers: The Movie, [1] and Shes Got the Power, featured in the American voice dub of the animated series Sailor Moon. ...

Track listing

The following tracks appear on "The Touch/Dare to Be Stupid" single:

1. "The Touch" by Stan Bush – 3:54
2. "Dare to Be Stupid" – 3:23

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Music video

The music video and song are, as Yankovic himself said, a "style parody" of Devo's works:[1] A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ...

• Yankovic and his band wear the yellow radiation suits from Devo's cover of The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" video throughout. The man having a fit on a wallpapered wall and floor is also taken from the "Satisfaction" music video, but in Dare to Be Stupid it more resembles breakdancing.
• Segments of the video are reminiscent of several of Devo's videos:
  • "Devo Corporate Anthem" - in one scene, the band is standing in the same pose as Devo.
  • "Jocko Homo" - in another segment, the band wears nylon stockings over their heads.
  • "Beautiful World" - There are also several scenes of black-and-white stock footage, directed by someone in front of a big machine. In addition, "Tell me, what did I say?" also resembles the line from this song.
  • "Come Back Jonee" The Elderly guys in Cowboy suits are reminiscent of the elderly guys bowling in the "Come Back Jonee" video
  • "The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprise" - in this part the group is in front of very simple computer graphics.
  • "Freedom of Choice" - The use of stop-motion animation and computer graphics is also reminiscent of this Devo video. The use of Roman togas also comes from "Freedom of Choice," and at one point, a man must choose between a banana and an accordion, reminiscent to Yankovic's song.
  • "Whip It" - The guitarist is alone, wearing a cowboy outfit. (although the guitarist wearing a cowboy outfit was from the music video to the theme from the movie Doctor Detroit (which Devo performed), it is likely a coincidence, as the set was based of the "Whip It" video)
• The man with a pipe, smiling and watching television with a chainsaw near the beginning of the video is a very typical Devo-like image as well, juxtaposing violent, out of context or unexplained occurrences and objects with a 1950s-like "wholesome American" feel. This man is meant to be J.R "Bob" Dobbs, Head of the Church of the SubGenius. Some say it may also be a take off of "General Boy" from the "We're all Devo" Video.
• The video also includes a lot of bizarre imagery which, for the most part, is irrelevant to the lyrics, such as Yankovic's face emerging from a bowl of Alpha-Bits cereal (a nod to the similarly Devo-esque scene in the video from early 80's band- and friend of Devo's- Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" when lead singer Stan Ridgway's face emerges from a bowl of cooked pinto beans) . A breakdancer appears at two points in the video whose style bears striking resemblance to Spaz Attack, featured in the Satisfaction (I Can't Get No) video by Devo.
• The clay animation was done Mark Osborne, who also did the clay animation on the 1993 Yankovic video "Jurassic Park".^{[citation needed]}
• The machine Yankovic controls during parts of the video is an interocitor from the film This Island Earth.

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Notes

• The song is played in The Transformers: The Movie as the theme of the Junkions, a group of robots living on the planet of junk. Like the song, Junkion speech was littered with cultural and television references.
• Shortly after the song was released, Yankovic received a letter from Mark Mothersbaugh congratulating him on writing "the perfect Devo song". He has also said that it was "beautiful... and I hate him for it, basically."
• In celebration of the release of the new Transformers movie, nerdcore rapper MC Chris did a cover of Dare to Be Stupid and released it on his MySpace for download.

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See also

• List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic