Lasagna (song)

Lasagna (song)

Even Worse is the fifth studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1988. The album was the fifth produced by former The McCoys guitarist Rick Derringer. Recorded between November 1987 and February 1988, this album helped to revitalize Yankovic's career after the critical and commercial disappointment of his previous album Polka Party! (1986).

The music on Even Worse is built around parodies and pastiches of pop and rock music of the mid 1980s. Half of the album is made up of parodies, featuring jabs at Michael Jackson, George Harrison, Tiffany, Richie Valens' and more recently Los Lobos' versions of the folk song "La Bamba," and Billy Idol. The other half of the album is original material, featuring many "style parodies," or musical imitations that come close to, but do not copy, existing artists. These style parodies include imitations of specific artists like Oingo Boingo, Beastie Boys, and James Taylor. Even Worse has the distinction of being one of two albums by "Weird Al" Yankovic lacking any polka renditions of pop songs or medleys, the other being his debut album "Weird Al" Yankovic (1983), released five years earlier. This album's title and cover art of the album is a spoof on that of Michael Jackson's 1987 album, Bad.

Even Worse was met with mostly positive reviews and peaked at number twenty-seven on the Billboard 200, becoming Yankovic's best selling album. The album also produced one of Yankovic's hit singles, "Fat," a parody of Michael Jackson's "Bad," which peaked at number ninety-nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a staple of MTV. The album was quickly certified as a gold record, and later as a platinum record with sales of over one million copies in the United States, becoming Yankovic's first platinum record. "Fat" was later nominated and won a Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video at the 1989 Grammy Awards.