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"Weird Al has done it again! The king of parody, &amp;quot;Weird Al&amp;quot; Yankovic, released the first of eight new music videos on Monday, July 14, spoofing Pharrell Williams&amp;apos; &amp;quot;Happy.&amp;quot; Al&amp;apos;s newest endeavor pokes fun at the tackiest of people, brought to life by a cast of comedy all-stars, Aisha Tyler, Jack Black, Eric Stonestreet, Margaret Cho, and Kristen Schaal.\r\n\r\nThe bizarre music video begins with Weird Al, 54, wearing an incredibly loud outfit as he writhes and shakes inside a warehouse. &amp;quot;Tacky&amp;quot; makes fun of various types of annoying people: those who name-drop, Instagram too frequently, wear suspenders and belts, and other irritating traits attributed to &amp;quot;tacky&amp;quot; types.\r\n&amp;quot;I wanted to really do what is ostensibly my last album with a big splash,&amp;quot; Al told NPR last weekend of his aggressive music video campaign for his new album, Mandatory Fun. &amp;quot;I wanted the first week to be big; I wanted every single day of release week  to be an event.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nFans are most looking forward to Yankovic&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;Word Crimes,&amp;quot; a spoof of Robin Thicke&amp;apos;s smash 2013 hit &amp;quot;Blurred Lines.&amp;quot; Al explained to NPR: &amp;quot;When I do my parodies, because of YouTube, I&amp;apos;m never the first person to do a parody of a certain song&amp;#x2026; I don&amp;apos;t think anybody, to this point, had done a &amp;quot;Blurred Lines&amp;quot; parody about proper use of grammar.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n\r\nHis funny spoofs in the past have included &amp;quot;Eat It,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Like a Surgeon,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Amish Paradise,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;White and Nerdy.&amp;quot; Added Yankovic of his fame, &amp;quot;It makes me a hero among a small subset of the population.&amp;quot;\r\nMandatory Fun, Yankovic&amp;apos;s fourteenth studio album and his follow-up to 2011&amp;apos;s Alpocaplypse, is released on Tuesday, July 15. To mark the occasion, Yankovic will release one new video spoof through next Monday, July 21.\r\n\r\nWatch &amp;quot;Tacky&amp;quot; above!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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