 <unk> for the 31st Grammy Awards were the Hampton String Quartet for " Get a Job " , George Harrison for " When We Was <unk> " , the American rock band Talking Heads for <unk> Giant , " Weird Al " Yankovic for " Fat " , and Neil Young for " This Note 's for You " . " Get a Job " , a song recorded originally by the American group The <unk> , appears on the Hampton String Quartet 's album What If Mozart <unk> " Roll Over Beethoven " , a collection of 1950s R & B and pop music songs performed in the styles of Beethoven , Debussy , Mozart , and other composers . " When We Was <unk> " , a song from the album Cloud Nine , is constructed from quotations written when The Beatles were at the height of their fame and features Harrison playing a <unk> . The music video shows Elton John dressed as a <unk> , a reference to the 1967 song " I Am the <unk> " . <unk> Giants is a collection of Talking Heads ' music videos and additional material linking them together . Two of the nominated music videos had connections to Michael Jackson ; " Fat " is a parody of Jackson 's song " Bad " , and the video for " This Note 's for You " depicts a Jackson look @-@ alike 's hair catching fire ; a parody of an incident that occurred during a shoot for a Pepsi television advertisement in 1984 . In the " Fat " video , Yankovic becomes a " grossly overweight guy " through the use of cosmetics and special effects , and leads a group of overweight people on a parade . The award was presented to Yankovic as the performing artist , along with Jay <unk> as the video director and Susan <unk> as the video producer . 
