Barney's on Fire

"Barney's on Fire"
Single by Tony Mason & None of the Above
from the album Mommy Has A Migraine
Released 1993 (1993)
Format Digital download
Recorded 1993
Genre Comedy, alternative rock
Length 02:39
Writer(s) Tony Mason
Tony Mason & None of the Above singles chronology
Barney's on Fire
(1993)
Barney's on Fire (re-release)
(2013)

Barney's on Fire is a song by Tony Mason and None of the Above. It is a well known example of Anti-Barney humor.

Music videos

Several music videos of the song have been uploaded to YouTube.

Track listing

  1. Barney's on Fire - 2:39

Controversy

The song is often miscredited to "Weird Al" Yankovic (a recurring problem among parody songs on the Internet, which as a whole are often misattributed to Yankovic), a confusion made worse by Mason's use of a similar nasal voice to Yankovic's on the record. Yankovic denied writing the song.[1][2] Yankovic would later mention Barney in the lyrics of the parody song "Jurassic Park" ("...I'm afraid those things'll harm me / 'Cause they sure don't act like Barney..."). The music video for "Jurassic Park" also includes Barney's head being bitten off by a Tyrannosaurus, who later coughs up the head after receiving the Heimlich maneuver from a brontosaurus.

References

  1. tonymason.com...For the record...WEIRD AL DID NOT WRITE OR PERFORM Barney's On Fire!!!! I, TONY MASON DID, BACK IN 1993...
  2. Weird Al Yankovic at MySpace
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