Weird Al - "This Song's Just Six Words Long" CONTROVERSY

https://ibb.co/xjQQVj9

This is really all George Harrison’s fault for leaving out a whole verse of the song, which threw the door wide open for the master parodist Yankovitz to pounce

As the poster who brought this up in the first place, I have this to say:

This song is just Yanni/Laurel

the people have spoken. Billy Joel is being located

It's "couple o' vargs" like the shithead from burzum.

Since George's definitive version is a cover, this means (I think) all but one of the parodies on Even Worse were of cover versions.

Guessing Bad/Fat entailed an expensive royalty payout? The others were La Bamba, I Think We're Alone Now, and Mony Mony.

a big check for Tommy James

has anybody checked on Billy Joel

this shit still bothers me I really think Weird Al should not have made this song

stain on his legacy

Guessing Bad/Fat entailed an expensive royalty payout?

I thought Al’s thing was to approach the artist for their blessing as a courtesy, but not to pay royalties (as his parodies qualify as fair use).

He needs permission from the artist so he can get credited (and collect the royalties from) for his new lyrics.

Like as an ASCAP/BMI thing?

Sounds like he works out a royalty arrangement with the artist so he won't get sued

Part of his agreement with a songwriter whose work he is parodying would involve coming up with a share split, which might not be a split at all (100% to the original writers) if they don't want to give up anything, and he still wants to record his version.

"I gotta fill time" is funny u guys are nuts

this is the only thing that makes me actually like that godawful song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOIVBdb0G4A

wait ... what is a godawful song?