"Weird Al" Yankovic has done it again! His new album 'Mandatory Fun' was released on July 15, 2014 and it has been his most successful album yet. Parodying songs like, Radioactive by Imagine Dragons, Royals by Lorde, Happy by Pharrell Williams, Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke, and Fancy by Iggy Azalea, he covers the most popular hits from 2012 to 2014.Not only does "Weird Al" successfully parody these songs to the very last instrumental detail, but he also accurately identifies social trends of today and parodies them also. For instance, he exposes "grammar nazis" in his parody of Blurred Lines, called Word Crimes. The term "grammar nazi" is aimed toward the people that annoyingly correct every grammatical error on anything said online; the most common error being the usage of 'your' and 'you're'.
But the one thing that excites me the most about every new "Weird Al" album is his polka medley. Every album, he takes the most popular hit songs that he didn't specifically spoof and combines them into a medley with a polka theme. These medleys are an absolute perfect indication of trends in music. It's really interesting to look back on his polkas and see what types of music were popular at the time. Al's most recent one consists of these tracks:
- Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus
- Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People
- Best Song Ever by One Direction
- Gangnam Style by PSY
- Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen
- Scream & Shout by will.i.am feat. Britney Spears
- Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye feat. Kimbra
- Timber by Pitbull feat. Kesha
- Sexy and I Know It by LMFAO
- Thrift Shop by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz
- Get Lucky by Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams
~ Melody♫
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