<P> The album featured five parodies . Aside from the aforementioned "White & Nerdy" and "Canadian Idiot", the album also contains lampoons of "Confessions Part II" by Usher, "Do I Make You Proud" by Taylor Hicks, and "Trapped in the Closet" by R. Kelly . The other half of the album is original material, featuring many "style parodies", or musical imitations of existing artists . These style parodies include imitations of specific artists like Brian Wilson, Rage Against the Machine, Sparks, animated musical specials, Cake, and 1980s charity songs . Originally, there were plans for the album's lead single to have been a spoof of James Blunt's hit "You're Beautiful" entitled "You're Pitiful", but Blunt's record label, Atlantic, blocked the commercial release of the parody . </P> <P> The CD release was a DualDisc; one side of the disc played the album, and the other side functioned as a DVD, featuring animated music videos for many of the songs on the record . Straight Outta Lynwood was met with mostly positive reviews, with many critics praising "White & Nerdy" and "Trapped in the Drive - Thru". Some of the other parody songs, however, were met with a more mixed response . The album peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200 . "White & Nerdy" became Yankovic's highest - charting single, as well as his first Platinum - certified single . The record itself was certified Gold for shipments of over 500,000 copies . </P> <P> On July 5, 2005, recording for Straight Outta Lynwood officially began at Santa Monica Sound Records, in Santa Monica, California . By late 2005, six originals--"Pancreas", "Close but No Cigar", "Virus Alert", "Don't Download This Song", "I'll Sue Ya", and "Weasel Stomping Day"--had been recorded . "Weasel Stomping Day" describes, in the style of animated musical specials of the 1960s, a supposedly traditional holiday in which participants don Viking helmets, spread mayonnaise on their lawns, and "snap (the titular animals') weasely spines in half ." "I'll Sue Ya" is a Rage Against the Machine style parody, taking aim at the abundance of frivolous lawsuits in the United States . Yankovic chose to juxtapose the style of Rage Against the Machine with lyrics about lawsuits because he felt that humor could be derived by pairing the anger of the band's music with a topic so vacuous . "Don't Download This Song", a style parody of 1980s charity songs, such as "We are the World", "Hands Across America", and "Do They Know It's Christmas?", "describes the perils of online music file - sharing". According to Yankovic himself, the song takes a moderate approach to the peer - to - peer music download situation, arguing that both sides--people trying to illegally download music and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)--can act hypocritically depending on the situation . </P> <P> "Virus Alert" is a style parody of Sparks, specifically their work in the mid-1970s, such as their album Kimono My House (1974). It details "the evil that lurks in your email inbox ." "Close but No Cigar" is a style parody of Cake that tells the story of a man who breaks up with his seemingly perfect girlfriends due to the most inconsequential of flaws . The song was inspired by an actual friend of Yankovic's who was never satisfied with any of his dates; Yankovic later explained that "the song was inspired by (the) attitude, that nothing could ever be good enough ." The final original recorded, "Pancreas", is a song mainly about the biological functions of the aforementioned organ . The song is an imitation of the musical stylings of Brian Wilson, specifically his work found on the 1966 album Pet Sounds, released by the Beach Boys, and their aborted follow - up album, Smile . Yankovic joked that the reason the song was written was because "my pancreas has given so much to me over the years, I felt like I needed to give something back to it". </P>

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