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Re:The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic by davidw on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @12:27AM (#22862742)
From Wikipedia: Cobain is claimed to have considered that Nirvana had "made it" with the success of Yankovic's parody.

I always thought that was kind of nice - that they liked being parodied because it meant they were legit.

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Re:The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic by dehrmann on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @01:32AM (#22863008)
Didn't he also add the condition that it not be about food?
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Re:The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic by robotnixon on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @08:24AM (#22865010)
Sounds like he just asked if it was going to be about food:

"I told [Kurt] I want to do a parody of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' and his first thing was: 'Is it going to be about food?' and I said, 'no, it's going to be about how no one can understand your lyrics.'"

Cobain thought the concept was funny and signed off on it."

https://www.howardstern.com/show/2016/5/17/weird-al-mandator...

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Re:The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic by dgritsko on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @09:25AM (#22865613)
Another fun bit of trivia about "Smells Like Nirvana" - when shooting the music video, they used many of the same props, actors, camera angles, and even the same sound stage as the original "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smells_Like_Nirvana#Music_vide...
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Re:The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic by chris_wot on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:12AM (#22866956)
Smells like teen spirit was unintentionally ironic anyway.
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