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"Eat It" is a 1984 song by American comedy music artist "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of Michael Jackson 's 1983 single " Beat It ", with the contents changed to be about an exasperated parent attempting to get their picky child to eat anything at all, much less to eat properly.
Yankovic released his second album "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D in 1984. The first single " Eat It ", a parody of the Michael Jackson song " Beat It ", became popular, thanks in part to the music video, a shot-for-shot parody of Jackson's "Beat It" music video, and what Yankovic sarcastically described as his "uncanny resemblance" to Jackson. [ 17 ]
"Weird Al" Yankovic in 2003 "Weird Al" Yankovic is a multiple Grammy Award -winning American musician, satirist , parodist , accordionist , director , television producer, and author. He is known in particular for humorous songs which make fun of popular culture or parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts, or both.
"'Weird Al' has come up in conversations," said Sykes, 69. "He’s a genius." The entertainment executive added of the "Eat It" singer, "He has made brilliant versions of the songs, but I’ll be ...
Daniel Radcliffe and Evan Rachel Wood know there's no shame in being weird!The stars of the new biopic, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, sat down with ET, as well as the film's writer and director ...
The new film on the life of the “White and Nerdy” musician parodies clichéd biopics but dodges thornier questions about him as a cultural phenomenon.
"Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D followed in February 1984. It peaked at number 17 on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum by the RIAA, [ 5 ] [ 7 ] while also charting in Australia and Canada. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The album's lead single " Eat It " was a commercial success, topping the Australian singles chart and also reaching the top 15 in Canada ...
"Fat" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of "Bad" by Michael Jackson and is Yankovic's second parody of a Jackson song, the first being "Eat It", a parody of Jackson's "Beat It". "Fat" is the first song on Yankovic's Even Worse album. The video won a Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video in 1988. [1]