I tend to be sympathetic to your arguments, and I realize what I'm raising is not directly related to your point. But as others pointed out, Yankovic was far f

I tend to be sympathetic to your arguments, and I realize what I'm raising is not directly related to your point. But as others pointed out, Yankovic was far from mocking Michael Jackson... and in fact it's well known that Jackson was in on the joke: “Michael Jackson wasn’t just cool about my parody of ‘Beat It,’” Yankovic told People in 2016. “But he also loved my version of ‘Bad,’ which was ‘Fat.’ He even let me use the actual ‘Bad’ subway set for the ‘Fat’ video. He was very supportive, which was huge with opening the doors with other artists. Because if Michael Jackson signed on, you couldn’t really say no.” (https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/michael-jackson-accidentally-saved-weird-al-yankovics-career-in-the-early-1990s.html/ https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/michael-jackson-acc...)