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This is a story of art imitating advertising imitating art. Or something like that.
Poodle Hat, the long-awaited new album by “Weird Al” Yankovic, due in stores tomorrow, includes a song called “eBay” that’s a send-up of the Backstreet Boys hit “I Want It That Way.” (Lines include, “Tell me why (I need another pet rock)/Tell me why (I got that Alf alarm clock)/ Tell me why (I bid on Shatner’s old toupee)/They had it on eBay.”)
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