Serious question: Is Shatner being serious here?
https://youtu.be/lul-Y8vSr0I?t=20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0
I know this because Ben Folds had a hand in it, and I'm a long-time Ben Folds fan.
After the success of Has Been, he did go back to the corny covers style of making music though
There's literally only one cover song on Has Been, so it seems really weird to put the album in the same category