Dare to Be Stupid
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 The future's up to you, so watcha gonna do?! | ||
| "Dare to Be Stupid" | ||
| Performed by: | "Weird Al" Yankovic | |
| Genre: | Comedy Rock | |
| Written by: | "Weird Al" Yankovic | |
| Produced by: | Rick Derringer | |
"Dare to Be Stupid" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic, originally released on his 1985 album of the same name and featured on the 1986 album The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
It was used as the music for the "Junkions attack" and "Junkions become friends" scenes in the movie; the song's rampant pop-culture referencing certainly fits with the pop-culture-talking Junkions.
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Single releases
- 7" single
- "The Touch"
- "Dare to Be Stupid"
Release date: August, 1986
Labels: Scotti Bros. Records (US/Canada), Epic Records (UK)
Prod. codes: 7464-06207-7 (US), ZS4-06207 (Canada), A-7318 (UK)
- 12" picture disc
- "The Touch"
- "Dare to Be Stupid"
- "The Transformers (Theme)"
Release date:
Labels: Scotti Bros. Records (Germany), Epic Records (UK)
Prod. codes: Int127.311 (Germany), WA-7318 (UK)
Album releases
- 1986 — The Transformers: The Movie — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Scotti Bros. Records)
- 2007 — The Transformers: The Movie — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: 20th Anniversary Edition (Legacy Recordings)
Notes
They are gibbering, singing almost a wild kind of junk-rock, war-cry song which, like their language, is constructed of bits and pieces of the museum junk of our culture - a humorous aggressive song which makes a surreal kind of sense.Description of the Junkions' entrance from the original movie script.
- This song is a "style parody" of the music of new wave band Devo.
- Reportedly, it was included in the movie soundtrack because Scotti Bros. Records decided to promote acts on their label heavily, and Al (always popular with the kids) was one of the biggest. As Al himself tells it, he just got a phone call one day and said "Okay", and that was basically the last he heard about it, save the royalty checks.
- Chords from "Dare to Be Stupid" were adapted by Vince DiCola into the movie's score cue "Unusual Allies" (used for the scene in which Hot Rod uses the Universal greeting on the Junkions), which was eventually released on the BotCon exclusive albums 'Til All Are One and Lighting Their Darkest Hour.
- In the Transformers Animated episode "Garbage In, Garbage Out", Ratchet howls at a rebellious Wreck-Gar (voiced by Al): "You wouldn't dare do something that stupid!", to which the junk-bot replies "I am Wreck-Gar! I dare to be stupid!" Series writer Marty Isenberg, at the premiere of the episode at BotCon 2008, noted with a smile that he just "had to" add in the reference. Weird Al used this clip from the episode to introduce performances of the song during his Strings Attached Tour.
