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 >>/958/
Liked him as an edgy, awkward teen, still like him now.

Prefer Richard Cheese covers.

I never listened to him much as a teen, but I think his time has passed.

Not to say that he's "bad", but that parodying doesn't have the same effect in the modern era: "legit" artists will gleefully pump out the most purposefully shitty, simplistic things and people will still eat it up. How can you make a mockery of that?

gay, edgy, and for people with no particular taste in anything

 >>/1084/
this

His songs are ordinary in quality. There are better song writers that parody with more specificity than the scatter-shot genre/theme approach 'weird al' seems to go for.

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 >>/1274/
Good job naming them all.

 >>/965/
Contrarian

 >>/978/
Especially since he has changed his style into "take a song and replace lyrics with Old People Grievance of the week". Half of his good stuff wasn't good because they were satire anyway, but because they were silly 80's songs, and the ones that were were just a well-executed but obvious switcheroos like White And Nerdy and Sue Ya. It's just not something that needs to be done these days, and to reiterate Al doesn't even do it well anymore. I would remind you that Gangnam Style is essentially the same thing.

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 >>/1279/
> It's just not something that needs to be done these days

When does music "need" to be parodied in the first place?

My argument earlier on was that parodies virtually can't exist anymore because we've passed some sort of cultural event horizon where pop is eating itself.

You're a gifted singer-songwriter and you sit down to pen a poisonous ode to the potential for the music industry to corrupt individuals and the youth at large in the most degenerate manner possible? Too late, Miley Cyrus exists.

You go back to the drawing board and decide to skewer self-fellating hacks who buy their way into the public eye? Sorry, Rebbeca Black's "career" was a thing.

In a post-Friday world, the satirist has got his fucking work cut out for him.

Nothing like making your riches and fame by making fun of the rich and famous.