Musical comedian 'Weird Al' Yankovic is at it again with a new album, Mandatory Fun.
The album, his 14th after 32 years as a signed recording artist, is his first to be a No. 1 album in the U.S. (No. 3 in Canada).
In addition to some original pieces in the style of several artists, Yankovic has parodies of songs by Lourde, Pharrell Williams, Iggy Azalea, Imagine Dragons and Robin Thicke.
It's hard to pick one stand-out parody from the album that has gone to No. 1 in only a couple weeks.
Handy, a parody of Azalea's hit Fancy, is fun but was way too easy. The internet is already full of parodies of Fancy like these ones: http://bit.ly/1nS0R4C) and http://bit.ly/1kdxJmP.
Word Crimes, a parody of Thicke's massive hit Blurred Lines poking fun at poor grammar, would seem like an obvious choice for a professional writer and copy editor. But nobody likes grammar Nazis.
So the winner is Tacky -based on Williams' hit Happy. Tacky is the whole package: social commentary; a fun, catchy song; and a great video with dancing celebrity cameos by Aisha Tyler, Margaret Cho, Eric Stonestreet, Kristen Schaal and Jack Black (yes, that is Black twerking at 2:20).
Get Tacky online here http://bit.ly/1Awz0ui.
