People are cheering iconic musician Weird Al Yankovic after he perfectly roasted musician Kid Rock for his ridiculous new single and video "Don't Tell Me How To Live."
The video, which features Kid Rock yelling about "snowflakes" and "millennials" while Canadian rock band Monster Truck repeats the titular phrase, is so ludicrously Kid Rockian that it seems impossible it's not a parody or SNL digital short.
Rest assured though, it is both a real and sincere effort from Kid Rock—as the king of the parody himself, Weird Al, made clear in the perfectly rendered Twitter drag of Kid Rock he posted yesterday, seen below.
To everybody that's congratulating me right now on my new Kid Rock parody video, let me clarify - that's not me. That's actually Kid Rock.
— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) November 22, 2021
Yankovic tweeted:
"To everybody that's congratulating me right now on my new Kid Rock parody video, let me clarify - that's not me. That's actually Kid Rock."
Perfection. 🔥
Yankovic, of course, has made a career out of absurd parody songs and videos like the Madonna send-up "Like a Surgeon," the Coolio re-tool "Amish Paradise" and his perfect take on Chamillionaire's "Ridin Dirty," with "White & Nerdy."
And at first glance, Kid Rock's truly mind-melting new song and video seem like they have to be the result of some kind of Yankovician take on right-wing bravado.
Because never has anything been so embarrassingly, baroquely on-the-nose as "Don't Tell Me How To Live."
The eyeroll-worthy title is bad enough.
But the lyrics, which sound straight from the mind of your oblivious Fox News uncle who still thinks it's 2014 and blames everything on Obama, are truly astonishing.
The song whines about "snowflakes" who all "got a motherfu*king trophy" and who make up "a nation of pussies" where "every opinion has a millennial offended."
A note to Kid Rock and everyone of his ilk—millennials are literally, like, 40 now.
It's 2021.
And that's before we get to the video, full of images of Kid Rock screaming at us and flipping us the bird and pretending to shoot us through the screen while comparing himself to Bruce Springsteen, James Dean and Brad Pitt.
LOL, okay, Mr. Rock!
"How can any of this possibly be real?!" you shout into the night.
We hear you, but sadly it is indeed—nightmarishly so. Which is why Weird Al's perfect tweet struck a nerve with everyone who found themselves unable to turn away from this brain-melting Kid Rockian trainwreck.
On Twitter, people absolutely loved Weird Al's perfect drag of Kid Rock's preposterous work of "art."
Please alert the authorities about a murder here on Twitter. https://t.co/LvlDMHuna5
— Ethan Bearman (@EthanBearman) November 23, 2021
Just a reminder for everyone: Kid Rock grew up rich as hell and was the biggest poser imaginable to pretend he had street cred.
I really like the tennis court he grew up with. pic.twitter.com/4FIQTZ3iO7
— Matt Gaetz's imaginary Black son (@Tweet_McTweet) November 23, 2021
Oh my god I just watched it and it really is like a Weird Al parody of a Kid Rock song.
He talks about offended millennials even though that means "adults under 40" now! The guy who says "ain't nobody gonna tell me how to live" looks like Zach Galifianakis doing a bit! https://t.co/jwCOXKd95G
— Daniel J. Willis (@BayAreaData) November 22, 2021
“Kid Rock is what smoking cough would look like if it were a person"
— Dave C (@DaveCash0527) November 22, 2021
Weird Al just eviscerated Kid Rock, like a surgeon. https://t.co/GTmpEsOPL2
— Andrew Cove (@aac) November 22, 2021
I thought it was Mike Lindell h/t .. @stutteringjohnm
Prove us wrong pic.twitter.com/y3pEtIodgn
— Outspoken (@Out5p0ken) November 22, 2021
Weird Al is slamming Kid Rock harder than the @TheRock slamming @VinceMcMahon https://t.co/asBOQKRHJ6
— Amazon Victoria (@AmazonMistress) November 22, 2021
Does this prove it? pic.twitter.com/sVoV9ErV30
— Smith (@smith92118) November 23, 2021
Your crown is ready, sir. 👑 https://t.co/dXe7RXQnAN
— Connor Turner (@ctoverdrive) November 23, 2021
🤣!!!
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) November 23, 2021
Weird Al never misses. 🐐 https://t.co/Pgy0vOf4K2
— The Dead Letter (Dr. D. Wolfe, MD) (@wolfe_author) November 23, 2021
I feel like you're not giving Tucker Carlson a chance
— SixSixTrample (@SixSixTrample) November 22, 2021
That's it. Nothing will be funnier than this. The Kid Rock discourse has peaked. Weird Al, you absolute legend! https://t.co/H5rwXWHzAI
— Owen Symes (@owen_symes) November 23, 2021
Right? Like, what point do you have to get to in life, what kind of decisions do you have to have made, where you get dragged by *Weird Al*? In terms of niceness he's like the Keanu Reeves of music.
— Brihard (@brihard) November 23, 2021
Damn.
DAMN. 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀 https://t.co/torzUQhhjO
— Jonathan H. Gray... ✪ Grimace Connoisseur ✪ (@jongraywb) November 22, 2021
Just https://t.co/7aRDcNaBD1 pic.twitter.com/aogBwFBxfn
— Jill Hopkins (@Jillhopkins) November 23, 2021
I AM IN TEARS 🤣 https://t.co/xOGviiMMVY
— MRob 🖤 (@MarissaRoberto) November 22, 2021
pic.twitter.com/DOyKr0dcG7
— BFPierce1102 (@BfPierce1102) November 23, 2021
Here's hoping Weird Al does make an actual parody of "Don't Tell Me How To Live," because if anyone can top the absurdity of the original, it's him.