Weird Al Yankovic, “This Song Is Just Six Words Long” (1988) One of the only Weird Al parodies where the joke is how much he despises the original. If you’re under forty, you’re lucky in that you’ve possibly never heard George’s huge 1987 comeback hit, “Got My Mind Set on You.” Words cannot describe its wretchedness. The video forces George to sit in an armchair, lip-synching by the fireplace. Then his body double gets up to dance. It lingered at Number One for weeks. Weird Al pays tribute by chanting the endlessly repeated headache of a chorus—“This song is just six words long! This song is
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