“Dare to be Stupid” is a Perfect DEVO Song

DEVO is fundamentally a parody of itself, so external parody tends to simply become canon. If Walt Disney Records proposed an all-child bowdlerized dance version of Metallica, it is unlikely that Lars Ulrich would direct the videos. For DEVO, it is natural.

Al Yankovic understands DEVO, and steers his ship into the wave with his own parody of their work. Mark Mothersbaugh has called Dare to be Stupid “the perfect Devo song”.