Weird Al Headline Story's

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"Weird Al" Yankovic - Headline News

all of the stories that he sings about are true events 

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The kid spray painting then getting caned (0:13 - 0:41) refers to the punishment of Michael Fay who in 1994 was an American citizen who was caned as an official punishment in Singapore after he was found guilty of vandalizing cars.  It was a controversy in America as the punishment was viewed as barbaric.  This story was a flavor of the month fluff piece that largely isn't remembered.

 

Most of us should be familiar with the second story of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan (0:53 - 1:27) as the brilliant 2017 movie I, Tonya is a biopic based around that event.  But if you don't know, that is lampooning the Tonya Harding grudge against a fellow Olympic figure-skater where Harding was complicit in intentionally harming her opponent by attempting to hobble her in 1994.  It became a very long and drawn out drama.

 

I'm a bit surprised the third story isn't more well-remembered, which is of John and Lorena Bobbitt (2:00 - 2:33).  In a nutshell, Lorena cut off John's penis with a kitchen knife after they had sex.  During the trial both John and Lorena changed their stories multiple times, with Lorena accusing John of raping her and John stating that she was simply angry at him.  Ultimately Lorena was found not guilty due to temporary insanity and John had his penis reattached.  Interestingly enough, a species of sand worm, eunice aphroditois is named so due to its scissor-like jaws.

 

As is common with Weird Al's music videos, they sometimes shot-for-shot caricaturize the original video.  "Headline News" lampoons the one hit wonder song "Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm" by the Crash Test Dummies:

 

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nice

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