Later in the tour, he changed it to reference Paris Hilton’s DUI and imprisonment, and her subsequent interview on Larry King Live. Yankovic’s Straight Outta Lynwood concert tour contained new lyrics as part of a parody medley, referencing Britney Spears, dealing with her 2007 head-shaving shock and underpants-less limousine trip in late 2006. Headline News Lyrics by Weird Al Yankovic from the The Ultimate Video Collection album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more: Once. The band then hid the instruments until the end of the song, when they took them out and played them this “came as a big surprise to” Yankovic. Reportedly, during one of the performances, Ellen Reid, backing vocalist and keyboardist for the Crash Test Dummies, went out and purchased kazoos. Roberts and the band also performed the song with Yankvoic twice once on Canada’s MuchMusic channel and another time at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. It ended with four men in jail, a broken. Babalu Music Headline News I Love Lucy Theme (Vocal) Bedrock Anthem El. Plus he gets half the earnings and that helps me make money. The Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan affair began with unchecked ambition, unbridled greed and a whack to the knee. There was supposed to be a theme song composed by Weird Al, but it never got used. He later noted that, “People assume that I was annoyed but when does a parody of you, you know you’ve made it.” He later praised the way Yankovic interacted with the artists that he parodies, noting that “Weird Al goes the whole route and cultivates a relationship with the artist. In this 1994 parody, Yankovic takes on the Crash Test Dummies’s 1993 hit “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” with a song that references 3 different huge stories that broke the news during the recording of this song.īrad Roberts, the original songwriter for “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” was extremely pleased with the parody, and found it humorous. Lyrics to 'Headline News' by WEIRD AL YANKOVIC: Once, there was this kid who / Took a trip to Singapore and brought along his spray paint / And when he finally came back / He had cane marks all over his bottom / He said that it was from when / The warden whacked it so hard / Mmm mmm mmm mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm / whip.
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