‘Weird Al’ Yankovic: Prince Wouldn’t Let Me Parody Him

Over the course of a four-decade career, “Weird Al” Yankovic has parodied everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna to Nirvana to Iggy freakin’ Azalea. One notable omission from the “Weird Al” canon, however, is any Prince spoof! That’s because The Purple One never let him, Yankovic has revealed in a new interview.

The satirist famously requests permission from the artists he’s going to send up before doing so (although, legally, he doesn’t have to), and Yankovic tells People that Prince never gave him the go-ahead on any of his ideas"

"It's too bad. I hadn't approached him in about 20 years because he always said no, but I had this fantasy that he'd come out with a new song, I'd have a great idea, he'd finally say yes and it would erase decades of weirdness between us. But that's obviously not going to be the case."