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Eminem Bars 'Weird Al' Parody Video


By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY
The Associated Press
Saturday, May 10, 2003; 7:53 AM


NEW YORK - Eminem may poke fun at himself in videos, but he doesn't want "Weird Al" Yankovic doing it. Eminem won't give Yankovic permission to shoot a video for his new song, "Couch Potato," a parody of Eminem's Oscar-winning tune "Lose Yourself," Yankovic said.

"The only reason I could glean was that making a Weird Al music video would detract from his legacy as a serious hip-hop artist," Yankovic said Thursday. "It's very disappointing. This could have been my best video ever."

Eminem parodies himself and other celebrities in some of his most famous videos, including "Without Me," where he depicts himself as a fat Elvis Presley.

But an Eminem spokesman said "Lose Yourself" was special to the rapper, who didn't want the song's serious tone undermined by Yankovic's humor.

"It's an important personal piece of music for him, a piece of art," spokesman Dennis Dennehy said Friday. "He doesn't mind him doing the song, (but) he didn't want to change kids' visual perception on what that image was. He wanted to make sure the image would remain intact."

Artists who have allowed Yankovic to parody their songs and videos over the years include Michael Jackson - whose hits "Beat It," and "I'm Bad," became "Eat It," and "I'm Fat" - and Madonna, whose "Like a Virgin," which became "Like A Surgeon."

Yankovic said the rapper allowed Yankovic to redo the theme song from the hit movie "8 Mile," but said he would need to hear the final mix before granting the video rights. After receiving the final version of the parody - which pokes fun at television addicts - the rapper's representatives said he would not allow a video.

"We started preproduction on (the video) already, because we just assumed that there wouldn't a problem," Yankovic said.

Yankovic said Eminem also refused to allow him to release the song as a commercial single. It's the first cut on his 11th album, "Poodle Hat," which also parodies songs by Avril Lavigne and rapper Nelly. It's due out May 20 on Way Moby/Volcano Records.

Although Yankovic says he's grateful to Eminem for allowing him to parody his song, he's still lamenting what would have been his "most ambitious" video ever - heady words, coming from a man who dressed up like Jackson in a fat suit for the video "I'm Fat."

"You'll just have to listen to the song and close your eyes and imagine what might have been," chuckled Yankovic.

biatch

Coolio said no to "Amish Paradise" but Weird Al did it anyways.

can you blame him?

weird al is bad luck.

Yeah, I'm sure if you sold 30 million records, made $30million/year and was the biggest music star you'd allow some dude to make fun of you in a video... :thumbsup

If Weird AL talked money...
Maybe it would be done, but then...

I am willing to bet Mr. Mathers value's his hard work to much and does not see a "Promotional" value in what Weird Al wants to do.
"Lose yourself" Just might be the best work Eminem has ever released to date (IMHO).

Its a pretty simple decision though if viewed even from a business stand point.

I would imagine he would be cool if it was another song, but the one in question is pretty deep. I'm sure it's just as he said, he doesn't want the meaning to be lost.

hehe ya caught me on an edit stocktrader eheh:)

TLC - dead lisa lopez
Coolio - dead career
POTUSA - one hit wonder
RHCP - they suck now
Billy Ray Cyrus - one hit wonder
Aerosmith - they suck now
Queen - freddy dead.
Madonna - sucks now
Michael Jackson - dead career
Nirvana - dead singer
huey lewis - dead career
kinks - dead career
cindy lauper - dead career
robert palmer - dead career
tiffany - dead career
Ritchie Valens - dead
billy idol - dead career
police - broken up
men without hats - one hit wonder
Greg Kihn - one hit wonder
survivor - one hit wonder
mc hammer - dead career and broke
new kids on the block - broke up
gerrardo - one hit wonder
milli vanilli - dead guy
james brown - dead career
barenaked ladies - 2 hit wonder at best

there's another dozen more but i haven't got the time to sort through all these weird al mp3's i've got.. toni basil.. joan jett.. the knack.. etc.. etc..

Nah...
None of em are over with cuz ya know there is a rapper somewhere listening to the blasts from the pasts, just like Dre said on the Album Aftermath.

All them artsists still makin money, and may get another break from a Rapper. Well except the ones that are dead where royalites are more than often turned over to an executor or family.

Well I agree with your edit then.

"Lose yourself" Just might be the best work Eminem has ever released to date (IMHO).

Sing For The Moment is my favorite from him though and I can't think of another from any artist that tops the message in it.



But music is reflection of self, we just explain it,
and then we get our checks in the mail.
It's fucked up ain't it?
How we can come from practically nothing to being able
to have any fuckin' thing that we wanted
That's why we sing for these kids,
who don't have a thing except for a dream,
and a fuckin' rap magazine
who post pin-up pictures on they walls all day long,
idolize they favorite rappers and know all they songs
Or for anyone who's ever been through shit in their lives,
till they sit and they cry at night wishin' they'd die
Till they throw on a rap record and they sit, and they vibe.
We're nothin' to you but we're the fuckin' shit in they eyes
that's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it,
squeeze it and hold it,
cuz we consider these minutes golden
and maybe they'll admit it when we're gone.
Just let our spirits live on,
through our lyrics that you hear
in our songs and we can...

I would consider the above comfortably retired. Sucks is a matter of opinion.

Anyway.. :)

Smacks of bullshit, to me. You don't need permission to parody. Weird Al can make all the parodies he wants and Eminem can't do a thing about it.

SpaceAce

:glugglug

Seems to be a weird Al rendition would be selling out... like doing Coke commercials or something lame like that.

Brad

Weird AL has already done one called " will the real slim shady please shut up ".

wasnt that some girl doing that song?

i couldnt see any reason why eminem would want weird al to make fun of one of his songs.

Some dude? Weird Al was a superstar when Eminem was still having his diapers changed, wtf are you talking about?

Legally, Weird Al can parody Eminem all he wants. I suppose that Shady/Aftermath influence at MTV might keep his video from getting played, but he could certainly make it and sell it to the home market. I think Weird Al felt bad about upsetting Coolio and is just respecting Eminem's feelings on the matter.

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FYI.. I've now got poodle hat..
"Couch Potato", the parody of "Lose Yourself" is fucking aweful.

Another lame Weird Al song talking about TV shows.

I'd have denied it as well.