"Weird Al" Yankovic - The Eminem Interview
Weird Al Yankovic's 2003 mock-interview with Eminem.
Created for Weird Al Yankovic's 2003 album Poodle Hat, was a parody of Eminem's "Lose Yourself", titled "Couch Potato".
Yankovic, in a 2004 interview, stated that during the production of a music video for the track, Eminem expressed concerns, objecting to its creation/release, fearing that it may somehow damage his career.[1] Production was forced to stop, and the music video was scrapped entirely.
In response to Eminem's disagreement, Yankovic soon afterwards filmed a scathing mock-interview for his show Al TV, in which he posed several questions to Eminem, only to have them answered by out of context clips, taken from an actual Eminem interview (a segment that was frequently done for Al TV). He mentions the music video and its subsequent cancellation several times in the mock-interview, with the implication that Eminem's supposedly positive views on artistic expression had rendered him a hypocrite, on account of his prior objection to Yankovic's own artistic expression.
It isn't entirely certain as to exactly how far along in development the music video had come, though most sources seem to imply that it was scrapped early in production. Additionally, Yankovic has revealed that the video would have contained a scene with a patchwork quilt, consisting of scenes from Eminem's own videos.[2] No footage, storyboards, scripts, or anything else of the sort from the music video have ever surfaced.
References
- ↑ Archived 2004 interview with Weird Al Yankovic. Retrieved 12 Jan '14.
- ↑ Archived 2003 news report on the music video's cancellation. Retrieved 12 Jan '14.