Blog: Idolator

Accordion-wielding parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic is compiling another greatest-hits collection for release this fall, and he wants your help as far as song-selection goes. One song that definitely won't be on the collection, however, is "You're Pitiful." Yankovic's remake of James Blunt's mewly, unkillable "You're Beautiful" was an "unofficial" "Weird Al" release thanks to Atlantic Records, Blunt's label, barring its release back in 2006-even though at the time, the singer himself had been OK with the release of the track : Actually, James Blunt was totally fine [...]