[Little Pig]

I can’t remember which artist it was, but someone fairly recent commented that they felt they had finally “arrived” because Weird Al had asked to parody one of their songs.

And yet, Prince would never consider allowing Al to parody any of his work, despite the rich potential in some of his songs.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I can’t remember which artist it was, but someone fairly recent commented that they felt they had finally “arrived” because Weird Al had asked to parody one of their songs.

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana once said that when Weird Al did his take on "Smells Like Teen Spirit", but of course that wasn't recent. Cobain seemed to get more pleasure from the Weird Al cover than he did from the critical accolades and overnight fame.