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And Finally Releases
No Blunt parody on Yankovic hits album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 24 July 2009
Talking of Twitter comms – CMU-approved comedy singer ‘Weird’ Al Yankovic has told his followers that one of his more popular pop parodies, ‘You’re Pitiful’, a rework of James Blunt’s ‘You’re Beautiful’, won’t be appearing on an upcoming greatest hits album because the Blunt man won’t allow it. Yankovic tweeted thus: “In case you were hoping for ‘You’re Pitiful’ to be included on my Essentials collection, sorry, this just in from Blunt’s manager: ‘Thanks for your email, but both James and I will never approve this parody to be released on any label'”.
Don’t they know that parody is the highest form of flattery? “Oh, look at me. I’m James Blunt. I’ve have no sense of humour and neither does my manager. Nur, nur, nur”. See? Flattering.
