The Grammy Award-winning humorist Weird Al Yankovic has dropped his pair of well-known Michael Jackson parodies — “Eat It” (“Beat It”) and “Fat” (“Bad”) from the set this time out, in the wake of HBO’s Leaving Neverland documentary and the controversy that followed. “I don’t know if that’s going to be permanent or not,” Yankovic tells Billboard, “but we just felt that with what’s happened recently with the HBO documentaries, we didn’t want anybody to feel uncomfortable. I felt I had enough fan favorites in the show that I could get away with it. I haven’t gotten a lot of pushback; There have been some people who have expressed disappointment, but we decided to err on the side of not offending people.”
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SOURCE: Billboard
So Weird Al’s sort of canceling himself.Nobody even knew who he was until he parodied Michael’s hits Beat It and Bad.Now don’t add them back once all this LN BS is completely washed in the sewage where it belongs.Michael never needed YOU.You needed him…Boy bye!!!!
👍🤦♀️👍so true!
So sooooooooooooo true !
“we decided to err on the side of not offending people.” Guess what? You have offended EVERY SINGLE PERSON that knows this mockumentary is a work of fiction and that the “actors” are simply looking for a pay day.