Song: Dare To Be Stupid

Running Time: 3:26

Year: 1985

Album: Dare To Be Stupid, Greatest Hits 1, Al-In-The-Box, Dare To Be Stupid "The Transformers" Soundtrack

Parody of: Style parody of Devo

Lyrics: Lyrics

Video: Yes

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Download/Listen: Mp3

Alternate Versions: Dare To Be Stupid (Instrumental)

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TriviaEdit

• This song was featured on the 1986 Animated film, The Transformers: The Movie.
• "Dare to be Stupid" is also Weird Al's motto in life.
• “Weird Al” and his band dress up as the band Devo in the music video, imitating the yellow "Hazmat" jumpsuits Devo wore in their video for "Satisfaction".
• It has been reported that, soon after this song's release, Devo's lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh wrote a letter to Al, congratulating him on writing and performing "the perfect Devo song."
• Transformers Animated's Wreck Gar (played by "Weird Al" Yankovic himself) said a reference to the song when he said "I am Wreck Gar, I dare to be stupid!"