I wonder if anyone notices.

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    Weird Al explicitly gets permission before doing a parody. Usually artists ask/beg him to do them. This comic is BS.

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      I remember an interview where Al was talking about his early career. Madonna asked him “When ya gonna do ‘Like a Surgeon’”? They talked about it, and she said “But only if I can be in the video.” Al, who was MUCH less popular than Madonna at the time, couldn’t say “Okay!” fast enough.

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        And then they fell madly in love. Madonna was a terrible influence on Al, leading him to a life of debauchery and selfishness, which culminated down to Columbia, where he was involved in a shootout with Pablo Escobar… or so his autobiographical movie told me.

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        A few weeks ago, I think I read (here on Lemmy!) that he regretted his beef. In fact, I think he said he thought his managers gave him bad information to cause the beef.

        Before that I didn’t even know there was any, so please don’t think me any kind of expert on the topic.

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          I remember it was that he felt his managers should have told him he was an idiot more than they misinformed him. He was upset about what they didn’t say, not what they said.

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          Haha, that’s how I know about it too. I just read some interview with Coolio a few weeks ago where he talked about it. The interview was linked here on Lemmy.