He could have at any moment disappeared in to the comedic abyss, but Weird Al Yankovic has kept on that funny grind since his first parody in the late '70s. His first release was My Bologna (a parody of The Knack's My Sharona, FYI), but it wasn’t until he parodied Michael Jackson's Beat It with Eat It that he really broke through to the mainstream. Some of his hits since then have done better than others, including Like A Surgeon and Smells Like Nirvana, but now he’s making a splash again and it’s a big one.
Weird Al has set out to release a new video every day for eight days in support of his new album Mandatory Fun and day three’s video is so good we’re not sure how the next five can be any better. Al’s only gone and covered Lorde’s Royals with his version called Foil, dedicated to, yes, aluminium foil.
While he starts out simply singing about wrapping up sandwiches, he soon moves into conspiracy theories and so on, as only Weird Al can, and it somehow makes complete sense. It’ll totally make you LOL, and we’re 100 per cent positive Lorde is going to love it, too. So far she hasn’t commented, but she is in Australia right now, so we’ll give her a few hours.
He's also released the most amazing parody of Blurred Lines called Word Crimes, and it’s incredibly clever, funny and totally educational. In fact, if we’re being honest, we learned a thing or two from it ourselves. You have to watch it:
This article originally appeared on The Debrief.