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If you are looking for an excellent piece of journalism on that topic, I would recommend this article [0] from earlier this year. His approach to writing parody lyrics is quite interesting.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/magazine/weird-al-yankovi...

You could be forgiven for missing that the title is "Weird AI" instead of "Weird Al" :D

For the disappointed, there was a nice NYT piece on Weird Al the human a few months ago, which had some details on his songwriting process: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22861977

"Weird Al the human"

I wonder how long it'll be before that distinction needs to be made on a more regular basis.

"Barbara Walters the human not the Markov Chain base AI"

I read this as "Weird EY AYE Yankovich", which I thought was super duper clever.

how disappointing.