James Blunt is defnitely no fan of “Weird Al” Yankovic. Does Mr. Blunt have a sense of humor? Apparently not.
Al Yankovic asked Mr. Blunt by e-mail for permission if Al could include his parody, “You’re Pitiful” for Al’s next greatest hits album. Guess what? Blunt managers fired an e-mail back to Al Yankovic, ordering Al to not include the song on any future greatest hits album.
Flashback, Blunt once allowed Al to parody the song and make a video for it, for the song “You’re Beautiful”…but Blunt wouldn’t allow Al to put the parody on any of his studio albums.
Al Yankovic, the man himself, isn’t happy about this…as he is all over his Twitter page, complaining about James Blunt’s actions, he’s all over his twitter page making fun of James.
While it isn’t the copyright laws to parody someone else’s work, it’s completely legal, Al is respectful to other musicians work so Al wouldn’t get sued by other songwriters. So Al is very careful about choosing songs to parody.
I think James Blunt has always been a douche bag…so Al should pay no mind to him. James is the one being the prick here…he should be happy that Al respects James Blunt’s songwriting but nope. It’s all ego. James the egomaniac, he thinks he’s too good for “Weird Al” Yankovic.
And congrats to Al on 20th Anniversary of “UHF”. 20th Anniversary edition DVD of “UHF” coming? Maybe a sequel to the movie, “UHF”? Come on, Al, make a “UHF”, sequel. It deserves one. 🙂
Kev
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