With the Western world’s financial system crumbling, it’s notable that our nation’s #1 single is T.I.’s ode to getting his girl high priced tequila and bottle service all night long (among other things). The irony’s not lost on me, and the irony’s never lost on “Weird Al.” In honor of the moment, Yankovic has rush released a parody of the track straight to iTunes, marking the first time he didn’t bother to pun on a song title (“Whatever You Like” fits his version well, too, if whatever you like is tater tots and clipping coupons) and also the first time he’s parodied a #1 jam while it was still a #1 jam. He explains as only he can:
Via Al’s MySpace:
My new single – which is being released on iTunes tomorrow (Tuesday, October 7) – is a parody of T.I.’s smash hit “Whatever You Like.” The T.I. song has been number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 5 weeks now – and this will in fact mark the first time in my career that I’ve been able to release a parody while the original song was still number 1.
The name of the parody, of course, is “I Kissed A Squirrel.”
Just kidding.
Actually, the name of my song is ALSO “Whatever You Like.” For you history buffs, I believe this is the first time that my parody has had the exact same name as the song I was parodying. Just so you know, I’m only doing this as part of my on-going effort to confuse as many people as I possibly can. But I promise you, even though my song title is the same as T.I.’s, I DID change the lyrics. Somewhat.
Big thanks go out to T.I and his manager for their support – not only was he nice enough to give me his permission and blessing for this parody, but he responded so quickly that I was able to make everything happen insanely fast. In less than a two week period – seriously – I was able to come up with an idea for the song, get legal permission for the song, write the song, record the song, mix the song, master the song, upload the song to my label and deliver the song to iTunes. Talk about instant gratification!
Have a listen:
A T.I. refresher:
“Whatever You Like” is available on iTunes.
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after 20+ years – what the perm is really so “weird” about this Al person?
how he makes even the silliest things seem funny to me, when anyone else saying it would seem unbelieveably unfunny to me, is a mystery. a happy one though.
i hope that made sense, i don’t think i’m gonna look back and revise it.
I never thought I’d see the day that Weird Al’s parody would actually turn satirical, but if someone told me, I’d have guessed it would still be about food. He should make fun of world hunger now, or e. coli and mad cow disease from beef.
weird al rox my sox
I appreciate the satire.
really dumb.
Satire? Social commentay? Our culture is bankrupt… Go watch a George Romero while your at it. Kids these days…lol
Something can still be satirical if it’s stupid. Weird Al might not be Jonathan Swift, but he’s still trying to say something stupid about our economic crisis. This isn’t great art, but he at least deserves credit for pinning down a social purpose with one song in over quarter of a century.
Weird Al has released a track that shows that we can laugh about this situation because the bailout is coming out of our pockets anyway, so hooray.
Here’s the audio.
http://rapidshare.com/files/166976427/WA-WTL.mp3