I was thinking about the tribute specials some bands have gotten upon various milestones or entering a Hall of Fame. One staple of these programs is having other famed acts cover their songs on stage.
Then I thought of Weird Al Yankovic, and realized that, aside from the deserved respect he’d get from such a program, it would be AWESOME if some of the artists he’s parodied over the years would actually DO the songs that parodied theirs!
Who would you most want to be in such a special? Just from Al’s most recent album, I crack up at the thought of Usher doing “Confessions, Part 3,” and could even endure ten minutes of R. Kelly if he’d only do “Trapped in the Drive-Thru”! The mind boggles once you begin to consider the rest of his storied career.
To be honest ANY band or performer who did their own parody song would inmediately be one of my favorites. I really wish we could have seen Kurt Cobain do “smells like nirvana”, but if i had to pick someone whos still alive i think Coolio should redeem himself by doing “Amish paradise”.
If it weren’t for the fact that Cobain is dead, this is the performance I would think most likely to happen. Nirvana really loved that they got a “Weird Al” treatment.
Chamillionaire was very impressed with “White and Nerdy”, even put it on his own MySpace page. I can’t see him performing it, though.
Don McClean might perform “The Saga Begins”.
I could see the Red Hot Chili Peppers doing “Bedrock Anthem”.
Green Day might do it.
Mark Knopfler only consented to parody treatment on the condition that he be allowed to play the guitar part. So, maybe he’d perform too.
O.K. those are the folks I think maybe would actually do it. Who would I like to see do it?
I think it would be great to see Milli Vanilli lipsync “The Plumbing Song”!
Billy Idol on “Alimony” would be cool.
Billy Ray Cyrus doing “Achy Breaky Song” would be awesome!
I’d pay to see Aerosmith do “Livin’ in the Fridge”
This has a similar problem to Smells Like Nirvana on account of some of the people involved being dead. Of course, given the history of that particular side-show, you could just get performers that looked like Milli-Vanilli and have the actors lipsync it.