This shall forever be known as the week when Weird Al owned the Internet.
On Monday, the master parodist, now in decade three of his career and on album No. 14, finished his run of releasing one video for eight days in a row.
It might be the last time we see such a feat, too: As Yankovic told the Post, this will probably be his last traditional album, which means future releases could come one song at a time, digitally (to stay more timely and fresh, he says).
So how did the videos do? We rank them from worst to best below.
Is that a tacky thing to do? We think Al would let it slide:
‘Sports Song’
We’re not sure what’s going on with this video, but it’s probably most likely Weird Al just wanted to live out his fantasy of conducting a marching band. We’ll allow it since he makes up for its lack of creativity in his other vids.
‘Mission Statement’
Al channels Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young for this spoof of corporate speak. The video isn’t his best off the album, but it’s definitely more fun than sitting in a meeting talking about #synergy and #branding.
‘Lame Claim to Fame’
This song about celebrity-related braggadacio is only so-so, but the video is fun for its stop motion, scrapbook and clay animation aesthetic. Also, Al vomits on a cut-out picture of Christian Slater, so that’s cool.
‘First World Problems’
Al takes on the kinds of problems that yuppies complain about, and he does it in the style of the Pixies, who create very un-yuppy music.
‘Handy’
We resist calling Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” the song of the summer, but we might be OK with giving the title to this Weird Al parody instead. It’s Al at his classic best, taking a simple concept (an infomercial for a contracting company) and twisting it into great humor.
‘Tacky’
“Tacky” was the only video on this album to actually mimic its inspiration — Pharrell’s dance euphoria-filled “Happy.” The use of celebrities (Jack Black, Aisha Tyler, Margaret Cho, Kristen Schaal and Eric Stonestreet) in wonderfully mismatched outfits is clutch.
And he gets bonus points for his choice of filming location, which was the same loft used by Maude in “The Big Lebowski.”
‘Foil’
It starts off as a tribute to tin foil, to the tune of Lorde’s “Royals,” and then goes delightfully off the rails, devolving into the Illuminati, the faked moon landing and other “foil hat”-type conspiracies.
Extra great are the guest appearances by comedian Patton Oswalt and “The State” alumni Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant.
‘Word Crimes’
Yankovic told The Post that he didn’t want to have one breakout song on this album, but this parody of “Blurred Lines” is clearly the hit single.
The video captures the frustrations of anyone who gives a lick about grammar and the tragic misuse of the word “literally.” It’s great for entertaining while also providing much-needed refreshers in basic human language skills, with examples of diagramming sentences and the difference between “its” and “it’s.”