The Mid-West's answer to Daniel Johnston
, Wesley Willis
is a diagnosed chronic schizophrenic whop wrote hundreds of simple, often repetitive songs, garnering a cult following through his awkward sense of humour and dark personality. He had a nasty habit of head-butting people he was fond of - something he alludes to in this video for the song Alanis Morrisette
, which is during his 'celebrity' period, where he would basically ''sing'' about a single celebrity per song, in which the chorus was to be the celeb's name; usually, all these songs had the same beat and many interchangeable lyrics. More often than not, they'd end with Willis' signature phrase: ''Rock over London, rock on Chicago!''The video sees Willis parodying most of Alanis' videos from the Jagged Little Pill
era and employs a lookalike of the famed singer to make sure you understand who he's singing about.
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