Weird Al Yankovic ‘Mandatory Fun’ Album Review Roundup

‘Mandatory Fun’ is Weird Al Yankovic’s much anticipated new album. The master musical satirist is back and many smash hit songs have had a reworking in his inimitable style. While his parody music videos go viral, the music critics weigh in with their reviews. Find out what they have to say. We were long overdue for Weird Al Yankovic’s reinterpretation of the hits that have become familiar to us — in some cases perhaps too familiar. With his 14th album, ‘Mandatory Fun,’ he is back to doing what he has been doing best since the 1980s. This time around, in brazen style he has rendered Pharrell Williams’ ‘Happy’ as ‘Tacky’ and come out a winner. And with his ‘Word Crimes,’ he has taken Robin Thicke’s controversial ‘Blurred Lines’ and rescued it from its salaciousness — and in the view of some, misogynistic — excess and turned it into arguably the best grammar and syntax lesson we’ve ever gotten from a song. And there’s much more, from Lorde’s ‘Royals’ becoming ‘Foil,’ an ode to aluminum foil — with tinfoil conspiracies thrown in for good measure — to Imagine Dragon’s ‘Radioactive’ becoming now ‘Inactive’ of the slacker variety. The lyrics and the [...]

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