One of the things I always liked about Weird Al is that he respects boundaries with other artists, as when Prince asked him not to parody his work. A great lesson in artistic consent and the power of clearly communicating creative boundaries.
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I believe parody, or in fact any version which changes the words, generally requires permission from the songwriter (unlike a regular cover), so he didn't really have a choice. But yeah.
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