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We’re not sure if there’s any truth to this, but on Sunday, Weird Al Yankovic tweeted that he is a part of The Lonely Island now.

If it’s true, then how cool would that be? He said, “Okay, it’s settled – I’m the new member of The Lonely Island.”

Nice! We can hope, right?

I don’t know about you, but when Weird Al Yankovic came out with his famous parodies to Michael Jackson’s songs, “Beat It” and “Bad”, I was cracking up. Here we had the first comedian trying to parody the late King of Pop and it was cool. He did his renditions, “Eat It” and “Fat” with the approval of Michael, and they were spot on.

After Michael’s untimely demise, Al says that he owes everything to Michael, and rightfully so. (continue reading…)

Weird Al is the king of parodies, there’s no question about that. This is my new favorite from him. Here, he’s parodying T.I.’s song Whatever You Like.

Of recording the song, Al spoke via his MySpace blog:

“My new single -– which is being released on iTunes tomorrow -– is a parody of T.I.’s smash hit “Whatever You Like.” The T.I. song has been number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 5 weeks now – and this will in fact mark the first time in my career that I’ve been able to release a parody while the original song was still number 1.

Big thanks go out to T.I and his manager for their support – not only was he nice enough to give me his permission and blessing for this parody, but he responded so quickly that I was able to make everything happen insanely fast. In less than a two week period – seriously – I was able to come up with an idea for the song, get legal permission for the song, write the song, record the song, mix the song, master the song, upload the song to my label and deliver the song to iTunes. Talk about instant gratification!”

I love it when stuff like this comes together so quickly. It’s great.