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Headline News Lyrics
Once, there was this kid who
Took a trip to Singapore and brought along his spray paint
And when he finally came back
He had cane marks all over his bottom
He said that it was from when
The warden whacked it so hard
[Chorus]
Mmm mmm mmm mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm
(flogging, screams)
[Verse 2]
Once there was this girl who
Swore that one day she would be a figure skating champion
And when she finally made it
She saw some other girl who was better
And so she hired some guy to
Club her in the knee cap
[Chorus]
Mmm mmm mmm mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm
(thwacking, screams)
Mmm mmm mmm mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm
[Bridge]
They got paid for their sound bytes
And sold their TV movie rights
And then, there was this guy who
Made his wife so mad one night that she cut off his weiner
And when he finally came to
He found little Mr. Happy was missing
He couldn't quite explain it
It'd always just been there
[Chorus]
Mmm mmm mmm mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm
Mmm mmm mmm mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm
[Outro]
Ahh ahh ahh ahh, ahh ahh ahh ahh
Ahh ahh ahh ahh, ahh ahh ahh ahh
Ahh ahh ahh ahh, ahh ahh ahh ahh
Ahh ahh ahh ahh, ahh ahh ahh ahh
About
In this 1994 parody, Yankovic takes on the Crash Test Dummies’s 1993 hit “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” with a song that references 3 different huge stories that broke the news during the recording of this song.
Brad Roberts, the original songwriter for “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” was extremely pleased with the parody, and found it humorous. He later noted that, “People assume that I was annoyed but when [Yankovic] does a parody of you, you know you’ve made it.” He later praised the way Yankovic interacted with the artists that he parodies, noting that “Weird Al goes the whole route and cultivates a relationship with the artist. Plus he gets half the earnings and that helps me make money.
Roberts and the band also performed the song with Yankvoic twice; once on Canada’s MuchMusic channel and another time at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. Reportedly, during one of the performances, Ellen Reid, backing vocalist and keyboardist for the Crash Test Dummies, went out and purchased kazoos. The band then hid the instruments until the end of the song, when they took them out and played them; this “came as a big surprise to” Yankovic. Yankovic’s Straight Outta Lynwood concert tour contained new lyrics as part of a parody medley, referencing Britney Spears, dealing with her 2007 head-shaving shock and underpants-less limousine trip in late 2006. Later in the tour, he changed it to reference Paris Hilton’s DUI and imprisonment, and her subsequent interview on Larry King Live.
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