Dare to Be Stupid

2024-03-14T21:45:42Z

Sansgamer554: Cover art added for Dare To Be Stupid, along with removing the category of needing said art

{{song
|title=Dare to Be Stupid
|image=TFTM Junkions.JPG
|caption=The future's up to you, so watcha gonna do?!
|series=[[The Transformers: The Movie]]
|position=insert song
|genre=Comedy Rock
|performer=[["Weird Al" Yankovic]]
|written by="Weird Al" Yankovic
|production=[[Rick Derringer]]
}}
"'''Dare to Be Stupid'''" is a song by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], originally released on his 1985 album of [[w:Dare to Be Stupid|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 "[[Junkion (species)|Junkions]] attack" and "Junkions become friends" scenes in [[The Transformers: The Movie|the movie]]; the song's rampant pop-culture referencing certainly fits with the pop-culture-talking Junkions.

==Single releases==
[[File:DTBS_song_cover.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|"Tell me, what did I say?"]]
;7" single
#"[[The Touch]]"
#"Dare to Be Stupid"

'''Release date:''' August, [[1986]]<br>
'''Labels:''' [[Scotti Bros. Records]] (US/Canada), [[Epic Records]] (UK)<br>
'''Prod. codes:''' 7464-06207-7 (US), ZS4-06207 (Canada), A-7318 (UK)

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;12" picture disc
#"The Touch"
#"Dare to Be Stupid"
#"[[The Transformers (Theme)]]"

'''Release date:''' <br>
'''Labels:''' [[Scotti Bros. Records]] (Germany), [[Epic Records]] (UK)<br>
'''Prod. codes:''' Int127.311 (Germany), WA-7318 (UK)

===Album releases===
*1986 — ''[[The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack|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==
{{quote|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 {{w|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 (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] uses the [[Universal greeting]] on the Junkions), which was eventually released on the [[BotCon]] exclusive albums ''[['Til All Are One: Featuring Stan Bush and Vince DiCola|'Til All Are One]]'' and ''[[Lighting Their Darkest Hour: The Complete Music Score for TFTM|Lighting Their Darkest Hour]]''.
*In the ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' episode "[[Garbage In, Garbage Out]]", [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] howls at a rebellious [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|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.

==External links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMhwddNQSWQ Official music video at Weird Al's VEVO channel]
* [https://genius.com/Weird-al-yankovic-dare-to-be-stupid-lyrics Lyrics at Genius]

[[Category:Generation 1 songs]]

File:DTBS song cover.jpg

2024-03-14T21:37:48Z

Sansgamer554: The cover art of Dare To Be Stupid by "Weird Al" Yankovic

The cover art of Dare To Be Stupid by "Weird Al" Yankovic

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Dare to Be Stupid

File:DTBS song cover.jpg