Possible Clues:

• Suffer an embarrassing loss
• Absorb the loss, in slang
• Hit the deck
• Fail big-time
• "In your face!"
• Absorb a 68 Down
• Absorb the hit, financially
• 1984 Yankovic parody of a Jackson hit
• Hit for "Weird Al"
• First Top 40 hit for 'Weird Al'