Line #10 NoCelebritiesWereHarmed/Music


1	* This is the bread and butter of many [[FilkSong Filk/Dementia]] artists, including Music/TheGreatLukeSki.
2	* The AnimatedMusicVideo to Music/{{Disturbed}}'s CoverVersion of Music/{{Genesis\|Band}}' "Music/LandOfConfusion" features a (possible) Zakk Wylde look-alike, amongst others. Could be a reference to the original video, which featured multiple celebrity puppets. There's also the [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Sniper]] on the back of the album it's from, ''Ten Thousand Fists''. The original version, meanwhile, completely {{avert\|ed}}s this trope. Tying in with its status as a spinoff of ''Series/SpittingImage'', the Genesis video flaunts satirical caricatures of scores of celebrities of the day. Most famously, American President UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan himself.
3	* The classic 1962 novelty hit "The MonsterMash" was performed by Bobby Pickett in an obvious Creator/BorisKarloff imitation. {{Subverted\|Trope}} when Karloff himself performed it in the 1965 Halloween episode of "Shindig!" That particular performance was lost; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXLQAGJoz3k a recreation]] was posted on Platform/YouTube.
4	* Music/JonLajoie's WTF Collective 1 and 2 have this. MC Fatigue is Sean Paul, MC Final Verse is 50 Cent, MC Confusing is probably Music/LilWayne (or ''Relapse''-era Music/{{Eminem}} with the nasal voice and random celebrity namedrops), MC Inappropriate Rhymes chains together several of Music/{{Eminem}}'s favourite sick jokes of the time (Creator/MichaelJFox, Creator/ChristopherReeve, Creator/HeathLedger) but has Music/KanyeWest's mannerisms, and the Chorus Guy is supposed to represent how PopRap songs will have some random non-rapper sing the chorus.
5	* Beatallica (a satirical band performing mashups of Music/TheBeatles and Music/{{Metallica}}) already has a singer who does a dead-on James Hetfield... and they fall straight on this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fLYlYdmP3c "And I'm Evil"]], featuring a [[Music/TheMisfits Glenn]] Music/{{Danzig}} soundalike. ("Am I Evil" was not by one of Danzig's bands, [[RuleOfFunny but...]])
6	* Music/PetShopBoys alluded to the controversy of the time about Music/{{Eminem}}'s homophobic lyrics with "The Night I Fell In Love", by writing a song in which a young gay man has an affair with a closeted hip-hop star who has pretty clear parallels to him. (Eminem responded with a song in which he ran the Pet Shop Boys over with a car, [[AmusingInjuries though he doesn't seem to be taking it very seriously]].)
7	* Pulp had numerous celebrity impersonators in the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR5xGHPUEew "Bad Cover Version"]] in a parody of We Are the World/Do They Know It's Christmas-style charity videos. The impersonators range from Liam Gallagher, Robbie Williams, Rod Stewart and Tom Jones among a dozen others.
8	* A likeness of [[Music/{{Sabaton}} Joakim Brodén]] appears as a random Viking in the Music Video illustrations for Clamavi de Profundis's [[Music/{{Chieftain}} "Strong"]].
9	* The video for Music/FrankZappa's "Music/YouAreWhatYouIs" features a pretty blatant spoof of then president UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan. The fact that said parody is put in an electric chair was a factor in Creator/{{MTV}}'s decision to ban the video from airplay.

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