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Weird al yankovic is a multigrammy awardwinning american musician, satirist, parodist, accordionist, director, and television producer he is known in particular for humorous songs which make fun of popular culture or parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts, or both. Studio albums product categories weird al yankovic. In it, the narrator details his obsession with watching television and the television shows he watches. Few would have guessed that weird al yankovic who as a shy, accordionplaying teenager got his start sending in homemade tapes to. Stream ad free with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Couch potato parody of lose yourself by eminem artist weird al yankovic. The albums lead single, couch potato, is a parody of lose yourself by eminem. Nathan rabins the weird accordion to al and lily hirschs weird al seriously are both out now. Provided to youtube by sony music entertainment couch potato parody of lose yourself by eminem weird al yankovic poodle hat. Couch potato is a parody song by american satirist weird al yankovic.
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No one is immune from his treatment, not even avril lavigne. Eminem gave al permission to record and release the parody, but not to make a video, which al honored, leaving the label baffled on deciding what song to push which, in turn, fans blame for the poor album sales. Weird al yankovic samples, covers and remixes on whosampled. Look if you had one shot to sit on your lazy butt and watch all the tv you ever wanted unt. He is known mainly for his parodies of popular songs. Alfred matthew weird al yankovic born october 23, 1959 in downey, california is an american singersongwriter, music producer, actor, comedian, satirist, accordion player and kazooist. Couch potato by weird al yankovic is a cover of eminems lose yourself. Couch potato parody of lose yourself by eminem youtube. Couch potato takes the attitude and venom of eminems lose yourself and redirects it at the idiot executives who program all that idiocy on television. Couch potato, hardware store, trash day, party at the leper colony, angry white boy polka, wanna b ur lovr, a complicated song, why does this always happen to me.
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