Alas, the glorious week of Weird Al Yankovic is at an end. Our favourite musical parodist has marked the end of his superb run of eight music videos released over eight days with Mission Statement, a take on Crosby, Still & Nash that harmonises on impenetrable business babble. “We must all efficiently operationalize our stratgies,”
Weird Al Yankovic‘s eight-day music video marathon has seen our beloved purveyor of parody issue some sly, tongue-in-cheek criticisms of 21st Century life. In his latest, Lame Claim To Fame, Al takes on pseudo-name-droppers and people who boast about irrelevant online achievements. Al’s eye-popping stop-motion animation video is set to a country-rock jam filled to
We’re not sure if Tyler, The Creator‘s latest video marvel is part of his plan to become the next Quentin Tarantino, but we’re guessing it’s not. In fact, we suspect the only motivation behind his and Canadian rocker Mac DeMarco‘s apparent ode to hot grannies is simply to gross everyone out. In that sense, Tyler
Weird Al Yankovic is six videos into his eight-day music video marathon and still going strong, now channeling alternative rock gods the Pixies to complain about First World Problems. For the uninitiated, they’re the daily non-problems that most of us feel bad for getting angry about. In the clip, directed by filmmaker and previous Al
Truth be told, we never really had Weird Al Yankovic pegged as much of a jock or even much of a sports fan. We always cast him as more of the straight-A music geek type, but Al’s latest video, Sports Song, is making us eat our words, as The Weird One drops some serious sports
Pop music parodist Weird Al Yankovic has released the next installment in his busy week of video releases, with a handyman-themed parody of Iggy Azalea‘s Fancy, appropriately titled Handy. In the partially-animated video for Handy (below) Weird Al is dressed in a blonde wig and handyman’s tool-belt, replacing Iggy’s rhymes with his own. “First things
English trio alt-J have unveiled the Hunger Games-style video for their Miley Cyrus-sampling track Hunger Of The Pine. The song will appear on the band’s new album This Is All Yours which follows-up to their Mercury Prize-winning 2012 debut An Awesome Wave. Directed by Australian-raised photographer and filmmaker Nabil Elderkin (known for his work with
Weird Al’s week of videos continues!
Jenny Lewis has recruited an all-star cast for her latest music video. The former Rilo Kiley singer’s Just One of the Guys clip features Academy Award-winner Anne Hathaway, Twilight star Kristen Stewart, and Community‘s Brie Larson, all decked out in skeezy moustaches and tracksuits. “We screamed with laughter all day, huddled behind the monitor,” Lewis
In the lead-up to his new album, Mandatory Fun, Weird Al Yankovic has released a song that many on the internet wish we’d written ourselves. Titled Word Crimes, the track is a parody of Robin Thicke‘s hit Blurred Lines and takes to task the improper spelling and grammar recidivists of society. Don’t know (or care)
The music world’s perennial parodist, Weird Al Yankovic, is at it again, releasing a new track called Tacky which pokes fun at Pharrell Wiliams‘ 2013 hit, Happy. In the all-singing and all-dancing single-shot clip for Tacky (below), Weird Al begins proceeding in an appropriately tacky ’60s-inspired get-up, singing, “It might seem crazy wearin’ stripes of
