No need to cover your ears my Upper Midwest folks...cause Super Bowl 49 hopeful "Weird Al" Yankovic has catered to your local tastes on his new album! Think accordions & weekly church...

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In 125 days, or 18 weeks from today we will be gathering with friends and family (and maybe 98 Country will join you) to watch the most popular yearly sporting championship event around the world. You might have also heard in early August about the Change.org petition to help "Weird Al" Yankovic headline this upcoming Superbowl- with almost 130,000 signatures and hoping! Now I don't know if he'll ever headline a Superbowl, but he'd be a great supporting act for any artists he's playfully covered.

One track on his 2 month new album Mandatory Fun shows off Alfred's parody of the popular CD series Now! That's What I Call Music...and embraces a Minnesota tradition: POLKA MUSIC!

I have to admit- I had never heard of a Polka Mass before moving here to Saint Cloud, but I'll check out my very first one...if you give 4 minutes to the clever song below. Good Luck, Al...

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