It’s dead. There’s no doubt about that. The question is, who killed it?

“I shouldn’t be saying this but I think in a lot of ways, radio stations kill songs,” KCCQ disc jockey Kjersten Johnson said. “It drives me nuts to hear that song.”

So are radio stations the only ones to blame for the sudden death of “Macarena”? I think not.

Just as a disease spreads, so has the “Macarena.” From our parents, to our little brothers and sisters, as soon as the song escaped its spring break anthem roots, “Macarena” joined death row.

The day my dad asked me if I had the “Macaroni” song, I knew death was near. When my mom informed me that she learned the “Margarita” dance at the Bud World Party in Atlanta, I dug the grave.

Even Honky Dory’s picked up the song, mixing into their line-dance repertoire. “Macarena” seems to fit right in with Billy Ray Cyrus and the rest of country music, complete crap.

Mobile disc jockey Ryan Burger, owner of BC Productions, has his own theory on the deflated popularity of “Macarena.”

“It’s kind of like what happened with Hootie,” he said. “Any teeny bopper song that starts off in college is going to go down to high school and then junior high.”

Burger said he played “Macarena” three times in one hour at a recent elementary school sock-hop. “They went crazy each time,” he said.

On the other end, “Macarena” was booed off at the last high school dance I DJd. So has the “Macarena” craze faded at ISU?

“Don’t think it is completely dead now,” Burger said. “It’s losing its popularity and people are sick of the same darn mix.”

Burger predicts the song will die completely by the end of the semester. Until then, he plays “Macarena” once an evening at college parties.

Another hope for “Macarena” is the wedding reception status it has accumulated. Like most reception classics, the song is liked by all ages and is accompanied by an easy to do dance.

“It may stick around that arena for a while,” Johnson said. Meanwhile, Johnson continues to receive a number of calls everyday from listeners “begging not to play that song.”

So with “Macarena” dead, or at least dying, there must be a replacement out there to keep all of us Grind-potential dancers at work.

“Quad City DJs has been huge,” Burger said. He played “C’ Mon Ride The Train” three times at an RCA party last weekend.

Out with the “Macarena,” on with the “Train” and on with The Pit (choo choo.)

Alanis Morissette has a new video, sort of. American recording artist Wesley Willis has just finished recording a video for his song titled “Alanis Morissette,” which features an Alanis look alike doing a parody of her award winning “Ironic” video.

Willis became an underground hit with his E.P. 5 Explicit Songs. Gaining fans with Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam and Urge Overkill (to name a few), Willis began returning the favor on tributes such as “Alanis.”

On his latest, Fabian Road Warrior, Willis gives tribute to “Tripping Daisy,” “Porno For Pyros” and “Silverchair.” He has also recorded “Alice In Chains,” “Snoop Doggy Dog” and “Ice Cube” on past records.

On “Alanis Morissette,” Willis sings “You are a rock legend to the max! You can really rock it out! You can really whup a horse’s ass! You can really rock Saddam Hussein’s ass! You are so lovable to me in the long run.”

The Truth About Cats and Dogs and Reality Bites star Janeane Garofalo has found her way into the Cowboy Junkies’ video “Angel Mine.” The song is the second single off their latest album Lay It Down.

In the video, an allusion to The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Garofalo plays the cashier in the entryway of Los Angeles’ El Rey Theater. The band plays in the entryway of theater, while Garofalo performs a number of good deeds for passers by.

The Pogues, Rod Stewart, Cinderella, Tom Jones, Social Distortion and Joe Cocker are among artists on the new Mercury release, Shared Vision II: The Songs Of The Rolling Stones.

The album is a sequel to The Songs Of The Beatles, which was released in October of 1994. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Lighthouse Inc., the world’s leading resource on vision impairment.

New music releases this week include Nirvana’s From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, Tool’s AEnima, Kenny G’s The Movement and Shawn Colvin’s A Few Small Repairs. Look for a review of AEnima and Weezer’s Pinkerton on Wednesday.