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If you’ve been keeping score this week, you’d know that “Weird Al” Yankovic has released the following videos to promote his new album, ‘Mandatory Fun’: ‘Tacky’ (a parody of Pharrell Williams’ ‘Happy’), ‘Word Crimes’ (Robin Thicke‘s ‘Blurred Lines’), ‘Foil’ (Lorde‘s ‘Royals’), ‘Handy’ (Iggy Azaela‘s ‘Fancy’) and ‘Sports Song‘ (about how much your favorite team sucks).
The latest video takes on ‘First World Problems,’ and it comes with a killer riff that sounds a whole lot like something the Pixies used to play back when they were changing the way indie rock sounded.
Speaking with PopCrush, Yankovic explained his desire to take on a brand-new identity in the clip. “I told [director Liam Lynch] that I didn’t want to be myself; I wasn’t Weird Al in this video — I was kind of like this douchey character,” he said. “So we thought, ‘OK, we’ll find you a douchey blonde wig … [which was made of] real human hair … and I tried it on, and it fit, and we had fun with it!”
Agencies/Canadajournal
