**I fixed the upload, so now it looks like the whole thing is there, if you had wanted to watch. sorry about that! i am still way in the learning curve!
Weird Al has so many good parodies--"Amish Paradise," "White and Nerdy," and of course "Eat It" are at the top of the list of what I have heard. But this sublime treasure--the banality of the lyrics, coupled with (pun intended, if you have seen the original) the tragic intensity of tone, heightened by its length--is Yankovic's greatest triumph.
It is a parody of R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet" which is in itself a bizarre, convoluted, hours long (seems like) video soap-opera serial. But I'd watch this one instead--Weird Al has a great voice and the subject matter of his drama, unlike Kelly's, is suitable for viewing in front of the children.
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