# Who should do their own parody songs in a Weird Al TV tribute? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 1, 2007, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-do-their-own-parody-songs-in-a-weird-al-tv-tribute/386285 "2007-01-01T10:23:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-do-their-own-parody-songs-in-a-weird-al-tv-tribute/386285/1 "2007-01-01T10:23:52Z")
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. What do y’all think? ---
**Author:** ![Don26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@Don26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don26)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-do-their-own-parody-songs-in-a-weird-al-tv-tribute/386285/2 "2007-01-01T15:40:16Z")
Clearly the two who would be most awesome to see perform their parody songs would be Michael Jackson, (I’m Fat/Eat it) and Madonna (Like a surgeon) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-do-their-own-parody-songs-in-a-weird-al-tv-tribute/386285/3 "2007-01-01T16:19:43Z")
Okay, there’s _another_ reason I wish Freddy Mercury were still around… ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-do-their-own-parody-songs-in-a-weird-al-tv-tribute/386285/4 "2007-01-01T16:29:26Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-do-their-own-parody-songs-in-a-weird-al-tv-tribute/386285/5 "2007-01-01T17:59:45Z")
[QUOTE=DigitalC] I really wish we could have seen Kurt Cobain do “smells like nirvana”, [/QUOTE] 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” ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-do-their-own-parody-songs-in-a-weird-al-tv-tribute/386285/6 "2007-01-01T18:05:12Z")
[QUOTE=bienville] I could see the Red Hot Chili Peppers doing “Bedrock Anthem”. [/QUOTE] Probably not. Flea has been quoted as saying he wasn’t that impressed with it. I doubt we’d see Coolio do “Amish Paradise.” How about Devo doing “Dare to be Stupid”? Sure, it wasn’t a Devo song, but the style is straight Devo. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-do-their-own-parody-songs-in-a-weird-al-tv-tribute/386285/7 "2007-01-01T18:23:52Z")
Michael Jackson would probably do Eat It. Ahmed and Dweezil Zappa would probably do Genius in France. ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-do-their-own-parody-songs-in-a-weird-al-tv-tribute/386285/8 "2007-01-01T18:33:53Z")
[QUOTE=bienville] I think it would be great to see Milli Vanilli _lipsync_ “The Plumbing Song”! [/QUOTE] 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 l_ooked like_ Milli-Vanilli and have the actors lipsync it. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-do-their-own-parody-songs-in-a-weird-al-tv-tribute/386285/9 "2007-01-02T00:44:40Z")
Thanks to the magic of Youtube, we can already see Taylor Hicks performing “Do I Creep You Out”. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-do-their-own-parody-songs-in-a-weird-al-tv-tribute/386285/10 "2007-01-02T01:59:05Z")
[QUOTE=bienville] Don McClean might perform “The Saga Begins”. [/QUOTE] According to Wikipedia, McLean’s children have played the song so much that he sometimes accidentally sings Yankovic’s lyrics in concert. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-do-their-own-parody-songs-in-a-weird-al-tv-tribute/386285/11 "2007-01-02T16:14:46Z")
the late Richard Harris HAS performed Jurassic Park in concert. I still find it amazing that this is the same guy who played the original Dumbledore. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-do-their-own-parody-songs-in-a-weird-al-tv-tribute/386285/12 "2007-01-02T21:53:27Z")
[QUOTE=brianjedi] How about Devo doing “Dare to be Stupid”? Sure, it wasn’t a Devo song, but the style is straight Devo. [/QUOTE] Mark Mothersbaugh has said (jokingly) that he hates Weird Al for doing that song because it’s a better Devo song than he ever came up with.