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Originally Posted by pan6467
I think Weird's problem now is that like Mal and Hal state, his parodies are missing out on his core audience because they are not associating with today's music and that of which he parodies. But he can't just do past songs to keep that audience because he'll lose the younger crowds.
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No, it's more that his core audience keeps shifting younger. He still draws large crowds live
, and I think his most recent album (Poodle Hat) was his top-seller to date. Actually, there were poor sales of his most recent album (Poodle Hat), likely because Eminem wouldn't let him release a video for the lead single "Couch Potato", but the two albums before that (Running With Scissors and Bad Hair Day) both went platinum.
Also, only half of his albums are parodies (and it's always been that way). I think his best work is in the non-parodies, personally; check out Hardware Store from Poodle Hat, for instance.