Skammentary: Your humble narrator listened to "Your Horoscope for Today" in 1999, without realizing it's a ska song. I've gestured today this cognitive dissonance before, when "Your Horoscope for Today" was part of the SKAfter Party in 2018 & enjoyed the SKApril limelight in 2019, that I listened to Running with Scissors a lot in 1999, but mostly focused on "The Saga Begins" (I saw Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace nineteen times in theaters, including three times within the first twenty-four hours of release, & I regret nothing). I enjoyed "Weird Al" whole catelog for years before realizing that so many of his semingly random songs aren't random at all, they are style parodies—parodies of a whole genre or a particular musician's oeuvre—rather than individual song parodies. "Your Horoscope for Today" is a style parody of third-wave ska-punk, replete with syncopated guitar, toasting, & blaring horns.
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