The thing re Weird Al that I think is worth recognizing is illustrated by the Spike Jones Jr quote āOne of the things that people donāt realize about Dadās kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.ā Itās like really good parody has to do it all backwards and in heels, and Weird Al gets in there and counts the syllables and pours over the phrasing and word choices so that it all sounds precisely like the original, and then re-records the song, acknowledging the tiniest details of the recording, and also makes it a highly detailed spoof of an adjacent and absurdly unrelated piece of popular culture. I think really good parody has a love for the source materiel thatās impossible to fake. It takes real musicianship (or craft) to do and it usually gets tossed aside as ānoveltyā recording.