This is my favorite Weird Al song because it allows me to listen to Blurred Lines without having to listen to the lyrics of Blurred Lines

@xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888

3 жыл бұрын

It’s Triv LOL YES

@xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888

3 жыл бұрын

the lyrics are very creepy 😖

@anarkittyuwu3738

3 жыл бұрын

That is Weird Al in a nutshell.

@christiebaker5291

3 жыл бұрын

yes!!

@kodys1492

3 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe I used to like Blurred Lines the beat is catchy but the lyrics make me uncomfortable

"Go back to preschool, get out of the gene pool" Is an insult I will use

@parzival2874

2 жыл бұрын

No comments but 212 likes?

@alvhawk4461

2 жыл бұрын

crazy

@Uriah625

2 жыл бұрын

Personally like “control+alt+delete you” as an insult.

@yiotzu

2 жыл бұрын

460 likes with 3 words wow

@Carbon-cringe-human

2 жыл бұрын

@@Uriah625 that's a threat

As a teacher, I show this to my high school students on the first and last day. If they laugh and don't look confused, I call that success :)

@Chunkieta

8 күн бұрын

especially on the last day i'd say

"Weird Al" is the only artist I've heard that actually changed the lyrics of a song about non-consensual contact into teaching people on how to not type like an idiot online.

@nobody.of.importance

4 ай бұрын

I've never heard the original and now I *really* don't want to. Ew.

@mewmew8932

3 ай бұрын

I haven't heard Blurred Lines in like 9 years, and I still remember the chorus harmony. I didn't even know what the song was called, it's just everywhere@@nobody.of.importance

@TheReaverOfDarkness

2 ай бұрын

@@nobody.of.importance I think the original is making fun of such behavior, not condoning it.

@Jar_Jar_Twinks

Ай бұрын

@@nobody.of.importance the original is about a girl meeting a guy at a party and the guy trying to get her out of her abusive relationship. the "all men are r@pists crowd really likes to twist it to be creepy. edit: the song literally has the following lines from the guy btw "The way you grab me" "Go ahead, get at me" "Just let me liberate you" "Okay, now he was close Tried to domesticate you" he's literally giving the girl (who is all up on him) consent to go further. it couldn't be less creepy if it tried.

@TheRealLegoDocOck

Ай бұрын

@@Jar_Jar_Twinks The Singer unfortunately was the opposite of the song

Man's laughter is funny; manslaughter is not.

@timothyfloogle

4 жыл бұрын

Depends really.. circumstances and context really make the difference in certain scenarios

@hellszhells

4 жыл бұрын

It is tho

@vhsjpdfg

4 жыл бұрын

You can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter".

@abehambino

4 жыл бұрын

Debatable

@TessaTestarossa

4 жыл бұрын

Well, that depends. Manslaughter CAN be funny.

I love how Weird Al doesn't repeat lyrics where the original repeats, uses all the lyrical space to make the parody even better. This man is a legend.

@AnthonyGotterminated

2 жыл бұрын

If a Song does that it’s not a song, it’s a shit

@mitchthefrog

2 жыл бұрын

@@AnthonyGotterminated ???

@AnthonyGotterminated

2 жыл бұрын

@@mitchthefrog if a song repeats lyrics it’s a shit

@overheat97

2 жыл бұрын

@@AnthonyGotterminated so any song with a chorus. Got it.

@bigdingus9333

2 жыл бұрын

Comedic songs works better with fresh jokes

I can't say i ever expected Weird Al to make a "cunning linguist" joke yet here we are.

@sophiet1576

8 ай бұрын

I was reading one of Weird Al's children's books, When I Grow Up, to my niece, and was surprised to see that the main character wanted to be a Master Debater, when he grew up.

@nickster0007

4 ай бұрын

I can say I've heard this song at least 6 times and JUST got the joke. Then went to the comments to see if anyone else caught it!

@janeentumbao8690

4 ай бұрын

And he has a big dictionary. DICtionary😂😂😂😂

@pooferfloofer

3 ай бұрын

Honestly, same

@user-zr1dr7nz8e

3 ай бұрын

Best southern underground hip hop group ever

"Or your name is Prince" just cracks me up EVERY time.

@ElStinko-ve6mb

Ай бұрын

Had to slip that in after years of Prince denying him the chance to parody one of his songs.

@JonesNate

Ай бұрын

I thought it was "Prius."

@profile6144

Ай бұрын

same here

@jetblackrecords5540

2 күн бұрын

Prince is the only motherfucker allowed to write words using numbers. He's earned it.

“You “literally couldn’t get out of bed”” I had sleep paralysis

@epapuelvalve3250

3 жыл бұрын

He has a point

@sn3ax

3 жыл бұрын

I've got it too, yesterday I got out of bed 5 times in 5 different realities until finally being able to actually move IRL.

@epapuelvalve3250

3 жыл бұрын

@@sn3ax lol that happened to me various times when i was a kid

@missseaweed2462

3 жыл бұрын

@@KatherineA-kk2gp Please don't remind me of my highschool days. I'm pretty sure I used the apostrophe-quote combination in my last college paper about ratings and reviews.

@oliviabarber5307

3 жыл бұрын

😭✌️

Every English Teacher in America: "It's impossible to get kids to care about grammar." Weird Al: "Hold my root beer."

@avix1801

4 жыл бұрын

not just in America...

@horse14t

4 жыл бұрын

Canadians can be just as bad :P

@sctrgs3207

4 жыл бұрын

@@horse14t Canadians may do just as well.. WOO. !!

@Skull-Butterfly

4 жыл бұрын

I like how you used “root beer” instead of alcohol.😂

@hades403fearful5

4 жыл бұрын

thats funny

"Get out of the gene pool" is one of the best insults I've ever heard.

I always think of this song when my phone autocorrects "its" to "it's" when I mean to use the possessive.

I like how the song gets drastically more extreme the further it gets to the end, Al goes from actual advice to calling you a blithering moron and threatens to jam a crowbar into your cranium. Pure gold.

@turtlelord8021

Жыл бұрын

Or how he literally tells you to not have children.

@42elliott

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he does that. Party in the CIA is another example. Just gets more over-the-top as you go.

@katanyajason3316

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@kaigao4842

Жыл бұрын

Can't forget Foil, which goes from a commercial for aluminium foil to tinfoil hat stuff pretty quick

@42elliott

Жыл бұрын

@@kaigao4842 and ends with a literal lizard person

The difference between "Feeling you're nuts" and "Feeling your nuts" is HUGE!

@chucku00

3 жыл бұрын

Screwy Squirrel doesn't see the difference...

@jessicareutercastrogiovann5796

3 жыл бұрын

Lol!

@TheArsonsmith4242

3 жыл бұрын

Why not both?

@aztrolivr

3 жыл бұрын

@@chucku00 I JUST CHOKED ON MY WATER

@shia_labeouf

3 жыл бұрын

Lets eat Grandma.

I know how everyone's talking about the lyrics, but my favorite part is the visuals! All of the little details, like the sentence diagrams, the way the lyrics fit the style of the background, and the text messages at the bottom are like ASMR for my nerdy brain!

@jaysonsetera341

7 ай бұрын

What’s asmr

@LoreleiMission

6 ай бұрын

@@jaysonsetera341 Hi Jayson. ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. If you search here at KZread for ASMR videos, you will find many clips of quiet and interesting and soothing sounds.

@salazam

6 ай бұрын

@@jaysonsetera341 A made up sexual fetish for people who get their rocks off listening to whispers and paper crinkling.

@nobody.of.importance

4 ай бұрын

He really is white and nerdy.

@AnthonyGotterminated

4 ай бұрын

@@jaysonsetera341”relaxation” to someone within the usage of voice.

My mom is a high school English teacher and I showed her this video. She laughed hysterically.

Never has an ad for Grammarly been more fitting.

@hxneybcbaaisthecoolest

3 жыл бұрын

HHAHAAHHAHA

@a_human8489

3 жыл бұрын

*sponsored by audible*

@arynickson

3 жыл бұрын

this made spit out some coffee, and burst out laughing I love this comment

@ggsap

2 ай бұрын

He literally says never to use a spell checker

“Don’t write words using numbers Unless you’re seven Or you name is Prince” This is quality writing here.

@alrycaaeveahexendias1236

3 жыл бұрын

Having a hard time with this part. What does it reference? Or context behind it?

@I_GAMER-

3 жыл бұрын

I think he mean Peter I or Nicholas II.

@RobertC4458

3 жыл бұрын

@@alrycaaeveahexendias1236 Duh! That was a direct jab at Prince because Prince NEVER would allow "Weird Al" to parody any of his songs.

@BradleyWashburn1

3 жыл бұрын

@@alrycaaeveahexendias1236 I believe it was one song he wrote off a Price song. . He went to Prince to get the okay and Prince said no. He also take a jab at him in White and Nerdy when he is on the Wikipedia page.

@lelduck6388

3 жыл бұрын

Or you’re a troll from homestuck

Has anyone else noticed that the online commenter at 0:30 is George Newman, which was Weird Al's character in the movie "UHF"?

@Crashpad1413

3 ай бұрын

Very subtle

My English teacher showed this to our 8th grade class 8 years ago and he dissected every few lines of this video, absolutely loved it and the fact that I still remember makes me think this is was a great way to get teenagers' attention.

@FalconTypo6

Жыл бұрын

Look at you use plural possession! 😍

@insertwittyname5649

11 ай бұрын

I learned about Weird Al when my middle school social studies teacher showed us Amish Paradise before our lesson on them lol

@imthebossmermaid3648

9 ай бұрын

And it's better than the original song by a mile!

@Miait

8 ай бұрын

I know that this is an old comment, but I'm actually thinking of sending this to my 8th grade English teacher! Weird Al will never be irrelevant!

i'm honestly amazed at how this manages to not be condescending in an annoying grammar-nazi kind of way, it just comes off with the energy of a tired english teacher projecting into a song and i love it

@QUICKBOOKS1

3 жыл бұрын

It was very effective in putting me in my place. I'm known to be bad for that. (I'm a Toastmaster.)

@Fedico7000

3 жыл бұрын

*Violence*

@passthesause3557

2 жыл бұрын

"get out of the gene pool" is kind of nazi esque

@tlyke

2 жыл бұрын

*you forgot the period*

@somedudeintheinterweb8665

2 жыл бұрын

You also forgot to capitalize the "i" in "I'm".

“Irony is not coincidence.” Yeah that might just be the most underrated line in Weird Al history. Brutal.

@mattwo7

2 жыл бұрын

The real irony is that "Ironic" is about _cosmic_ irony and not even Alanis Morissette herself knows this.

@aaronwarwick9966

2 жыл бұрын

He was just providing some advice from one Al to another.

@PanzerShrek94

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah i really hate when people misuse the word.Especially i always see it in Cinemasins.he's always saying Irony to everything.

@mattwo7

2 жыл бұрын

@@PanzerShrek94 The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning, incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result, the incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play and the pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questionin. Now. That's. _Irony!_

@DanTarrant1

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattwo7 Actually, "Ironic" (the song) is meta in the sense that it is ironic that a song titled "Ironic" would contain no actual examples of irony in the lyrics.

This is one time when a parody of a hit song is way better than the hit song itself. And the graphics are outstanding. Way to go, Weird Al Yankovic!

@rdreeves2332

10 ай бұрын

More than one it seems. The album Mandatory Fun (which this song is part of) hit #1 on the charts. That means it beat out all the original songs and their albums as well.

@stretch-and-rook

9 ай бұрын

@@rdreeves2332 It may have charted well due to marketing, but this was by far Al's least comical album in all the latter half of his career. He probably sensed the same, since it was his final studio album. Don't get me wrong, I'm a lifelong fan of Weird Al and if he put out a record tomorrow I'd buy it without hesitation! But Mandatory Fun needed some... mandatory funny

@stretch-and-rook

9 ай бұрын

One time?

@Freakazoid12345

9 ай бұрын

"one time" ? This is the first time you've heard one of his songs?

@wtfduud

8 ай бұрын

Al has many parodies that are better than the original

im a kid with autism and i know you're probably not gonna see this but this video makes my brain so happy. not only 'cause it's your music but because the animation is so clean and well done. it's like a baby sensory video to me. thank you.

@salazam

6 ай бұрын

You don't have autism. It's called Munchausen syndrome.

@HALFNUTCLARITY

6 ай бұрын

​@@salazamu can't just undiagnose me like that 💀

@salazam

6 ай бұрын

@@HALFNUTCLARITY I did. It's obvious you simply crave attention.

@jont8555

5 ай бұрын

@@salazamHeh. Speak for yourself.

@HALFNUTCLARITY

4 ай бұрын

@@salazam ????? 😭

"Irony is not coincidence" I never noticed until recently how common that problem is.

@viddork

3 жыл бұрын

Did you also catch the illustration of the wedding couple in the rain? A direct jab at Alanis Morissette's song _Ironic?_

@TheInkPitOx

3 жыл бұрын

@@viddork 2:43

@LazyAndFabulous

3 жыл бұрын

Many people still think that irony is a coincidence. lol

@irenemax3574

3 жыл бұрын

viddork Yes! There’s an Irish comedian (whose name I forget) who does a great bit about that song.

@ArtemisFowl_the_wise

3 жыл бұрын

Irene Max If it is the same comedian I saw, then his name is Ed Byrne.

I once corrected someone who said “I could care less” on an online game. They then replied, “I couldn’t care less.” At least they learned.

@Graveyardgirl33

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha 😂

@tactilemania2672

5 жыл бұрын

haha

@ofallmyintention9496

5 жыл бұрын

The worst one that I know is, "I wasn't doing nothing." But, I feel like 'I could care less,' is much more common, instead of "I couldn't care less." I had a friend whose grandpa would always say, 'I weren't doing nothing,' and I had to cringe every time.

@chrisgoodburn2517

5 жыл бұрын

it was league wasn't it

@DogMcMeow

5 жыл бұрын

I too like the new online game

Having been educated as a linguist, this video makes my heart smile.

@lucyfer7994

7 ай бұрын

But are you a cunning linguist?

@shriharihudli8596

6 ай бұрын

@@lucyfer7994 Better ask his wife/girlfriend that instead of him.

@nobody.of.importance

4 ай бұрын

Even discounting the joke, linguistics is a very cool field, especially how it ties into large language models like ChatGPT. Glad it made you happy bro, it made me smile too x)

2:43 "irony is not coincidence" -- mad props for the much needed -- though late in coming -- correction to Alanis Morrisette's errant song "isn't it ironic" ("It's like raaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiinnnnnn on your wedding day...") !!!

When the parody has more effort than the original.

@Los_HermanitosCruz

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@GenericLifts

4 жыл бұрын

I F K R

@HN-kr1nf

4 жыл бұрын

what is the original

@GenericLifts

4 жыл бұрын

@@HN-kr1nfrobin thickle blurred lines

@elizabethalvarado8698

4 жыл бұрын

And it leaves a great impression on the world.

Weird Al can elevate even crappy songs and turn them into a masterpiece.

I can't help but admire the beauty of this video. I love all of the little details and easter eggs. Like, when it shows a computer screen it shows a person playing minesweeper (a reference to "White and Nerdy'), and the text they use for "lost cause", that refers to not only the show Lost, and the text at the bottom that uses the ABC logo, and says "learn your ABC's doofus". It's great.

This is significantly better than the actual song.

@Tiggster-qr8mw

2 жыл бұрын

What is the actual song?

@chefboirdee1141

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tiggster-qr8mw blurred lines

@gustavfoenss

2 жыл бұрын

agreed

@jakedagamer159

2 жыл бұрын

Yup

@MrHangool

2 жыл бұрын

Is that figurative or literal?

I love how this man has stayed relevant for 30+ years.

@AdityaPatel-yx2dk

7 жыл бұрын

IHCTerra but those parodies still have to be good you know?

@joshuafogg6600

7 жыл бұрын

N DelaPaz Even when the songs he's parodied have fallen into obscurity.

@d.j.mcbride4622

7 жыл бұрын

0

@faithblauert422

7 жыл бұрын

Joshua Fogg in to, not into

@stephenandersen4625

7 жыл бұрын

Odd, to me he is still a new guy.

Weird Al is so talented at what he does that he managed to turn probably one the all time worst pop songs into one of the most lyrically savage, educational songs ever written.

Another observation; at 3:20 there's a reference to the TV show "Lost," which was on the American network ABC; in the lower right-hand corner, it says, "Learn your ABC's, doofus." However, the fact that an apostrophe was used here to indicate a plural shows that someone involved with making the video is an actual doofus.

@maxeliie

2 ай бұрын

Lost was one of ABC's shows, hence learn your ABC's!

As a non native English speaker, this is actually really helpful.

@imissjokesonpurpose

4 жыл бұрын

You've gotta be joking

@adamfoxton6341

4 жыл бұрын

@@imissjokesonpurpose Less and Fewer / Doing Good and Doing Well are often confused. And "Could Care Less" is an Americanism that needs to disappear, but it's all over the TV and Movies so people might think it's correct English and then make inferences from there about other cases and get their message entirely wrong.

@imissjokesonpurpose

4 жыл бұрын

@@adamfoxton6341How is it helpful when it doesn't even teach you how and when you're supposed to use the things? The only time it does that is for it's and its.

@arthurjeremypearson

4 жыл бұрын

I would like to apologize on behalf of the English language.

@jackhemsworth7515

4 жыл бұрын

@@adamfoxton6341 and then Americans go to England and find they're struggling. it's surprising how much the language changes between countries with the same parent language.

My mother is an English Teacher and legitimately showed this to her class of 11th graders after I revealed this god-tier artist to her.

@zactack1845

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, my college professor used this video for an assignment today.

@angelat.8997

2 жыл бұрын

I’m an English teacher, too. I show it to my middle schoolers every year. They think it’s hysterical.

@Cher.Horowitz

2 жыл бұрын

@@angelat.8997 omg same exact case here! I showed it to them yesterday! ❤️

@yudu97

2 жыл бұрын

OMG OMG OMG

@hemiolaguy

2 жыл бұрын

@@angelat.8997 I assume the line about "cunning linguist" goes right over their heads?

I was listening to the original but it made me feel cheap so i decided to go to Weird Al. All the beat, none of the moral compromise. Love you, Al Yankovic.

I'll never forget when my English teacher played this in class.

I just turned on Blurred Lines. I tried to sing along. I sang the lyrics to this song. It has effectively replaced Blurred Lines in my brain. ...Thank you, Yankovic. You have done me a service that can never be truly repayed.

@sanjakosovic

8 жыл бұрын

*repaid

@biblyscop

7 жыл бұрын

+Sanja K extremely underrated comment.

@TheHutchy01

7 жыл бұрын

Amish Paradise.

@castagir68

7 жыл бұрын

i now do the same thing for his parody of "american pie" by don maclean!

@baddriversoffortworthtexas4557

7 жыл бұрын

I do that with every song he's parodied.. LOL

When you misspell a word on Reddit and you end up getting a grammar lesson.

@raptor8134

3 жыл бұрын

Le 10 million downvotes for a missed apostrophe has arrived

@0GlassOfAcid0

3 жыл бұрын

Even if what you said was right, people will think you are wrong because your grammer.

@devo076

3 жыл бұрын

@@0GlassOfAcid0 grammar

@TheKingofSteves

3 жыл бұрын

You think Reddit is bad? If I catch people using the wrong there, their, or they're on their resume, they're going to upset because they won't be getting a job there. Same with your and you're, and I suppose yore as well. Though, honestly that hasn't been a problem since the days of yore. Point is, if you're applying for a job your grammar needs to be on point. Sometimes it just be that way.

@justaspectator9762

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheKingofSteves 0:30

The greatest betrayal i ever experienced is when i recognized this tune on the radio and was about to put the volume up until i realized the song playing was the original instead of this version

@momo-chanthegerbil6205

Жыл бұрын

I am so sorry that happened 😢

@FalconTypo6

Жыл бұрын

Yet, you learned nada from this video. 🤣

@emperorhaya5351

Жыл бұрын

@@FalconTypo6 I didnt learn anything from the original video as well so...

@FalconTypo6

11 ай бұрын

@@emperorhaya5351 Trust. That's beyond apparent. 🤣

@alejandrolautarovargasmena6649

4 ай бұрын

You said about to. That means you didn't.

As a writer, I heavily approve of this song and will never listen to the original because there is no way it's better.

Any English teacher that doesn't start their school year with this song is not living their best life.

@cehlers41

5 жыл бұрын

Their

@dgcclan9445

5 жыл бұрын

@@cehlers41 that was auto fill, didn't notice, thank you.

@kevinschaffer9840

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, the proper pronoun in this case is "his". You're being politically, not grammatically, correct.

@cehlers41

5 жыл бұрын

@@kevinschaffer9840 woah really? Can you explain why "his" is correct?

@yourfavoriteclaymationpeng2926

5 жыл бұрын

Any English teacher being an English teacher is not living their best life.

Even lyrics aside, this still sounds better than blurred lines.

@thesplatoonaddict6837

3 жыл бұрын

It does by a lot.

@putalover4519

3 жыл бұрын

Blurred lines sucked lol

@Stella-iW123

3 жыл бұрын

But, we can all agree, the greatest version of Blurred Lines is the one by M*tthew M*rrison.

@bug7059

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stella-iW123 is that why we hate him

@haligames717

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

Al’s the kind of person to carry a dictionary for this exact reason And I am 100% here for it

Fun fact, at 0:26, the name of the HR (homeroom) teacher is Mrs. Krabappel. She was Bart's teacher on The Simpsons for a number of years before Marcia Wallace, the actress who provided her voice, passed away. Al of course made a couple of appearances on the show as himself over the years.

That “everybody shut up” really dignified the song

@Cerise4697

3 жыл бұрын

It's my fave part of the song.

@WolfyRed

3 жыл бұрын

69 likes nice

@nothing11558

3 жыл бұрын

" Hey Hey hey, Hey hey hey, Go away " Is my favourite part.

@waterbottle195

3 жыл бұрын

@@nothing11558 "Hey Hey hey, Hey hey hey, Go away" Describes my life

@aztrolivr

3 жыл бұрын

Yep.

You know your song is bad, when its parody beats it in every single thing.... Props to Weird Al.

@aForkfulOfGold

9 жыл бұрын

That doesn't even necessarily mean the song is bad. Weird Al is just THAT good.

@gandalfbengalston1627

9 жыл бұрын

No, blurred lines is still trash.

@aForkfulOfGold

9 жыл бұрын

Gandalf Bengalston I mean in general.

@delta2625

9 жыл бұрын

Gandalf Bengalston the original tune was made by the creators of 'blurred lines'. if you hate blurred lines and love this song, lyrics clearly mean too much to you.

@Tbelf123

9 жыл бұрын

delta2625 Well if you listen to Marvin Gayes' Got to Get It Up, the beats sound too close. Granted I'm not much of a Robert Thicke fan, but he can produce some good music.

One of my favorite Weird Al songs. “Cunning linguist” is the greatest lyric in any song.

@puremadness

4 ай бұрын

might also be the spiciest lyric in any weird al song

@AuthorCertifiedGoof

4 ай бұрын

@@puremadness definitely! Yet, he still managed to keep it clean!

@FajreroCintilo

4 ай бұрын

A linguist would lecture him on linguistic descriptivism v prescribivism and why he's wrong.

Thanks, Al. You are a national treasure, nevermind a brilliant student of English. Anytime I read comments or blog posts, I have these very same thoughts.

No oxford comma?!? If I say "I caught a Zubat, Pidgey and Weedle," I just told Pidgey and Weedle that I caught Zubat. That's the difference of 200 experience points

@tocov

7 жыл бұрын

Everything that is not clear without an Oxford comma can be rephrased to be clear. Hey, Pidgey and Weedle, I caught a Zubat. I caught a Zubat, a Pidgey and a Weedle.

@pdx96

7 жыл бұрын

tocov True, but the fact is that if the original sentence is used, there is ambiguity. Technically all unclear sentences can be rephrased

@40GamesAG

7 жыл бұрын

When I read this comment I thought of Weird Al's Polkamon XD

@Sirloinsalot1

7 жыл бұрын

+Ray Chiu It's better to rephrase a sentence so that it is clear.

@GrandleJams

7 жыл бұрын

+tocov but that is unnecessary work needed to remove the Oxford Comma. I thought the point of removing the Comma was to shorten the sentence, not make it longer. I don't want to emphasize that they are part of what I'm saying by adding "a" before every noun I want to describe. It's much easier just adding a single comma than to put an extra word before every noun.

Word crimes is definitely better than blurred lines

@peterdavids31

7 жыл бұрын

Ryan Bananahands 100% agree!

@Tabbi

7 жыл бұрын

DEFINITELY is an *understatement.*

@katt1420

7 жыл бұрын

totaly

@ae.8870

7 жыл бұрын

I Ara The muchly knows it ises

@user-kp5te7hz6y

6 жыл бұрын

Ryan Bananahands

The talent that this man possesses is absolutely amazing.

Watched this many times & just picked up on "you should hire some cunning linguist!" Pure genius.

Redditors when someone uses "your" instead of "you're".

@deadwarrior3655

3 жыл бұрын

Ouy’re*

@RedHorizonz

3 жыл бұрын

i’m a redditor. your statement is true

@timeforamunch2616

3 жыл бұрын

U'r

@MidClassWarrior

3 жыл бұрын

@@timeforamunch2616 Lmao

@rykloog9578

3 жыл бұрын

Your just being a grammar Nazi

"Lets eat, grandma." "Lets eat grandma." Commas save lives.

@ZombossLordOfDoom

2 жыл бұрын

My grandma has a shirt that says that

@becauseimafan

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZombossLordOfDoom LOL!

@stevepatrickjarvis

2 жыл бұрын

Lets eat, grandma would imply you want to eat with grandma Let's eat grandma would imply that you want to eat grandma with others.

@joeycrikey2594

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevepatrickjarvis that is the obvious point wow!

@rieldebonk1044

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeycrikey2594 You love being aggressive.

The other day, I was in an amusement park and the original song was played. When then tune arrived I almost yelled "if you can't write/in a proper way"

i want a biohazard bin on my computer. twitter has to go somewhere.

"Like I could care less. That means you do care. At least a little" I love that part. I hate it when people say "I could care less".

@StabbedMeat

9 жыл бұрын

***** Yeah, well, I couldn't care about your reply.

@LaneDenson

9 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's not grammatically correct, but it's not meant to be... www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ico1.htm "There’s a close link between the stress pattern of I could care less and the kind that appears in certain sarcastic or self-deprecatory phrases that are associated with the Yiddish heritage and (especially) New York Jewish speech. Perhaps the best known is I should be so lucky!, in which the real sense is often “I have no hope of being so lucky”, a closely similar stress pattern with the same sarcastic inversion of meaning. There’s no evidence to suggest that I could care less came directly from Yiddish, but the similarity is suggestive. There are other American expressions that have a similar sarcastic inversion of apparent sense, such as Tell me about it!, which usually means “Don’t tell me about it, because I know all about it already”. These may come from similar sources."

@JasonSmithHome

9 жыл бұрын

I hate it that "I couldn't care less" has become so clichéd that its sarcasm is lost on you, Weird Al, and everyone who "liked" your comment. I mean, if we must take our idioms literally, doesn't "I couldn't care less" also mean that "you do care, at least a little"? And honestly, is there really a lower limit to your concern and have you actually ever reached it? The even more sarcastic "I could care less" probably originated as an attempt to rejuvenate a tired idiom.

@TomRNZ

9 жыл бұрын

Lane Denson This just seems like an excuse that people who use the phrase came up with to justify their use of it. Like when Alanis Morrisette was made fun of for her song "Ironic", which contained no irony in it. She made the (obvious) excuse that the song was ironic because the title was called "Ironic" and there was no irony in the song itself.

@TomRNZ

9 жыл бұрын

Jason Smith No. "I couldn't care less" means exactly what it says. "I don't care so it's actually impossible for me to care any less." This video should clear things up: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox

The one thing I love about Weird Al is that he takes crappy songs and turns them into really funny and good songs

@christopherwood1632

4 жыл бұрын

The original is good too

@beatleschick

4 жыл бұрын

@@christopherwood1632 lol

@CooperRome

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherwood1632 it's garbage.

@ollie.7273

3 жыл бұрын

No it’s not

@19thcenturygentleman33

3 жыл бұрын

yah yeet one of nirvanas worst songs

This man is a genius... A weird one.. but none the less, a blistering genius...

This is my favorite Wierd Al song. I've been a big Wierd Al fan since the early 80's. Thank you.

I unironically prefer this version over the original, and I'm not just talking about the changing of the hella creepy lyrics, I genuinely think that this sounds better musically

@squanto2

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree. The production is sharp and amazing.

@nowhereman7884

Жыл бұрын

Wait, what's the original song? I didn't know this was a parody.

@cathacker13

Жыл бұрын

@@nowhereman7884 blurred lines

@terri6854

Жыл бұрын

"Hella"? Now there's a word crime.

@ali_m_

Жыл бұрын

@@terri6854 "that peepl mock u onliiiiiiiiiiiine"

When a parody makes more sense that some actual classes.

@gunnargetz5980

4 жыл бұрын

Furry?

@JoeNoobie

4 жыл бұрын

omfg you got a letter out of place, here.

@lilblizzaurus6000

4 жыл бұрын

"When a parody makes more sense *that* some actual classes" Caught a word crime of yours!

@marcoamazo

4 жыл бұрын

@@lilblizzaurus6000 wow can't believe I didn't notice that.

@tcmtech7515

4 жыл бұрын

"Spell it like it sounds unless it's spelled differently." My english teacher actually said that. Same with "Be original, just like everyone else." Looking back I can see why people hate school and feel it's worthless.

"Some cunning linguist" is the funniest God Damn Pun I have ever heard. 😂😂😂

Why does this song feel like it'd be used in an actual English class

@tangerinepaint3643

6 ай бұрын

I was shown it in my 8th grade English class once, but I might've seen further back than 8th grade.

Your little doodle of "rain on a wedding day" when describing irony hasn't gone unnoticed 😂

@jasoncornish2904

2 жыл бұрын

OK, went unnoticed by me until you said something. Thanks. LMAO'd!!!

@robdog4062

2 жыл бұрын

You forgot your period.

@VioletEmerald

Жыл бұрын

I had missed it lmao! Thanks for pointing out!

@Chan-zv5kb

Жыл бұрын

Was very glad they included that! The song's grammatical errors have gone unnoticed for too long!!

@emilymonahan5232

Жыл бұрын

timestamp?

To everyone stuck trying to teach their kids while the schools are shut down, here's the English lesson.

@cherry_junii

4 жыл бұрын

It’s sad how my teacher is making me make a video about this song as my last grade of the year.

@EliyahDaBoss

4 жыл бұрын

@@cherry_junii F

@RLifeNThymes

4 жыл бұрын

I teach my child everything he needs to know to be a good productive citizen. The schools are the ones who teach the book crap that people "have" to have to graduate.

@truepeacenik

3 жыл бұрын

No shame in that.

@brianm6337

3 жыл бұрын

@@cherry_junii Too bad you can't contact Weird Al for help, special credit, etc.

As a grammar and spelling nerd I love this song so much 😊

I've listened to this dozens of times, and I just noticed at 2:10 he says, "I hate them crimes! I mean those crimes."

@SS-op9wt

Жыл бұрын

Omg thank u for making me discover this

Producer: Hey Al, how many people do you want to embarrass in this song? Weird Al: Yes

@robertsonkira69

4 жыл бұрын

On what planet is "yes" an acceptable answer to a question asking, how many? Last time I checked "yes" is not a number or a word describing amounts.

@Scratchingforcash

4 жыл бұрын

Kira Robertson

@TheShinyFeraligatr

4 жыл бұрын

Ah, well, the reason your English classes haven’t helped you discern how “yes” was proper in that situation is because it’s the Mathematician’s Answer. Easy mistake to make.

@mmmmicrowave_

4 жыл бұрын

@@robertsonkira69 Its a joke but I'm sure you got it, right?

@qei431.

4 жыл бұрын

@@robertsonkira69 x÷x=yes

This person understands me.

@Demonic_Culture_Nut

6 жыл бұрын

Heil Grammar!

@extrajerky2940

6 жыл бұрын

MEIN APOSTROFEUER!

@Demonic_Culture_Nut

6 жыл бұрын

*APOSTROFUHRER

@benjaminmaxwell9025

6 жыл бұрын

All people who speak broken English need to go to the camps.

@razzmatazz2445

6 жыл бұрын

So is this your Mein Kamphf

This may be the most cleverly brilliant and brilliantly clever use of lyrics in any song ever.

I was today years old when I paid just enough attention to the visuals, rather than the lyrics, to spot the chalk animation of rain on a wedding day during the Irony section. My 1996 nostalgia sees what you did there.

"Just now, you said, you *literally* couldn't get out of bed!" "That makes me want to *literally* smack a crowbar upside your stupid head!" Still my favorite part of the whole song.

@goat8629

2 жыл бұрын

For real though. It’s an underrated line.

@tsharabrown3719

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, I learned more recently that "literally" being used to mean "figuratively, but really strongly" has at least a couple hundred years of history. I still love the song though.

@hackercow211

2 жыл бұрын

What I love about it is in the video they are physically strapped onto the bed, implying that they indeed literally couldn't get out of bed.

@samuelcolvin4994

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know why but the "think you should only write in emojis" makes me laugh like a lunatic every time.

@juliovnobre

2 жыл бұрын

@@tsharabrown3719 yeah I bet the same applies to a lot of it, but the song is intentionally pedantic for comedic effect. I remember hearing the same about “literally” but still, this song is a masterpiece.

I come back to watch this every now and then and am always in love with the graphics. The animation and entire motif is just great.

@jeremyaster7470

3 жыл бұрын

you'll like the shop vac video this guy did

@quiksilvababe

3 жыл бұрын

SAME

@dcolyer4451

3 жыл бұрын

And IS always in love, grammer

@kristinb8172

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously, Al raises the bar almost every time.

@Water_Me_Loan_64_YT

3 жыл бұрын

Jarret Heather did an amazing job!

Still love this after all these years.

Weird Al is the only guy who listened during his school group speech meetings

He always has a way to make his parodies better than the originals

@lucydoodles2020

5 жыл бұрын

The bar's not set too high for this one

@ReggiePostlethwaite

5 жыл бұрын

because he has an IQ of 180

@piggytalesstudio4690

5 жыл бұрын

Blue Dragon Yeah, he’s “weird” in that respect.

@soggycatgirl

5 жыл бұрын

Wait what's the original?

@ReggiePostlethwaite

5 жыл бұрын

@@soggycatgirl yes.

The errors that most get under my skin are "loser" (not the winner) being misspelled as "looser" (less tight) and "lose" (opposite of win) spelled as "loose" (not tight); as well as "you're" (contraction for "you are") being misspelled as "your" (possessive pronoun).

@ProjectGibix

9 жыл бұрын

'Your' is quite possibly the most abused word in English grammar. Is it that hard to distinguish 'you're' and 'your'?

@KarmicOmen

9 жыл бұрын

***** Somehow people don't see it for what it is ... they do not make the connection that "you're" is simply the contracted form of "you are". I was an English major, and hey, I occasionally make the "it's" and "its" error while typing ... however, I usually catch myself and correct it. There is a vast difference between making an honest mistake and just plain not knowing any better. I find that many people under a certain age today have more issues with spelling, grammar, and syntax than those of previous generations. I don't know which is to blame ... laziness, ambivalence, or a lapse in today's education system.

@Nakaelena

9 жыл бұрын

Angel Deville I'm thinking maybe all of the above. The one that drives me crazy is 'literally' I think it may be the single most incorrectly used word (next to 'like') in the English language.

@KarmicOmen

9 жыл бұрын

Nakaelena Speaking of the word "like" and being driven crazy; I like so like totally like agree with you. It is like so annoying, like to say like the least. Hahaha!! Sorry about that; I just couldn't resist throwing is a little humor mixed with mockery. I also have a problem with the rampant lack of punctuation {if any for that matter} that I see online. People seemingly do not know what it is, or they do not know how to use it properly.

@Joe.O.

9 жыл бұрын

Angel Deville The only way I can cope with being part of the online world, I took up drinking. Lots and lots of drinking. I'd be locked up in a padded room by now if I had not taken up drinking. ;)

This song deserves the Nobel Prize for Literature. Or Poetry.

I actually never listened to blurred lines before I really got into weird al and now I realize I was listening to the better version for awhile now

This is me whenever one of my friends makes a grammar mistake.

@afoeder

7 жыл бұрын

*grammer ;-)

@mf1520

7 жыл бұрын

I did that on purpose, but thanks.

@PeWaRaWNintendoFan

7 жыл бұрын

Then you're not really funny.

@cupcakesprinkles2931

7 жыл бұрын

** Grammar

@galenkaa

7 жыл бұрын

PewaMation Would you call it tacky?

I'm a professional editor. This song is my new favorite. I should ask all of my clients to listen to this song.

@noaheash6440

3 жыл бұрын

Yes you should

@Philip7331

3 жыл бұрын

Then you will lose your clients, because they do not need you anymore. No clients means no job, now doesn't it?

@enfieldjohn101

3 жыл бұрын

@@Philip7331 I would still have plenty of work because if I didn't have to spend as much time fixing simple grammatical errors, I would have more time to help them with things such as readability, dynamic phrasing, better detail, alternative ways of wording things, etc. There's more to editing than fixing grammatical mistakes.

@ninline2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@enfieldjohn101 I'm amazed at how many people don't use spell check. It doesn't catch everything but it would eliminate most of it. There are also grammar checkers that will clean up most problems as well. I once was pretty good at writing but after decades of working maintenance, where documentation is almost in another language, I got sloppy. I wrote a letter to my Governor and when I looked at it I could see it was BAD. No spelling errors but all kinds of other problems. I spent the rest of the day going through Google for a remedial writing class before it was fit to mail.

@enfieldjohn101

3 жыл бұрын

@@ninline2000 I'm glad you took the time to edit your letter until it was well written. It is a good thing to do, especially when you wish to be persuasive. A well written letter suggests to the reader that you know what you are talking about and care enough about the issue to really give a letter about it a lot of thought.

I love how al has a picture of himself in the accordion definition picture.

This song is single handedly how I learned proper grammar with apotsophes.

As a future English teacher, I can guarantee this will be a part of my curriculum. Thank you, Weird Al.

@GinaDellaSallatheawesome

10 жыл бұрын

Can you be my English teacher?

@moshlyfe

10 жыл бұрын

Gina DellaSalla of course.

@RaeneeDaySimProductions

10 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking! Will use when I graduate with my Middle Childhood degree next year!

@Aaron_Blackwell

3 жыл бұрын

Hey I'm from 6 years in the future and I hope it went well

@ladyxxmacbeth

7 ай бұрын

Except in the UK where the word "spastic" is incredibly offensive.

I once got into an argument with someone who told me grammar was spelled 'grammer/' He then went on to say it was the European version of grammar.

@nicklindsey1765

8 жыл бұрын

+EMROXRealm as a European that's bs

@hellothere.3153

8 жыл бұрын

European? Did he mean British? (He'd still be wrong though.) Because I can assure you, english is not the only language we speak.

@CryingZombie666

8 жыл бұрын

+EMROXRealm Just tell him "your 'grammer' is errant, such a weird name for a tyrant. Shut the fuck up and open a dictionary and solve this stupid 'mystery'... ... OF ( UP ) yours!!"

@unclefiend2138

8 жыл бұрын

+StygianTraveler141 Here's a better response: So if I had a fuck to give, and this I swear is true I'd take that fuck I had to give, and give that fuck to you But since I lack a fuck to give, and can't give you your due You'll have to just go fuck yourself, and get a fucking clue.

@CryingZombie666

8 жыл бұрын

The Man Who Speaks In Hands Cool. But we Weirdos ( Weird Al fans ) don't curse ( unless we have to )

1:03 There's something comedical about a sewer flipping into a dictionary seal

I like this because I don’t need to hear the lyrics of Blurred Lines

As an English major, this song teaches so much if you actually pay attention to the lyrics. Been a Weird Al fan since ‘91 and I don’t plan on stopping.👍🏼

@billp4

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, stuff you should have learnt by grade 6 or 7 at most.

@the_kombinator

Жыл бұрын

Are you teaching overseas? If not, do it :D

@smiley3047

Жыл бұрын

@@billp4 You'd be surprised at how much people forget

@marshwetland3808

11 ай бұрын

I'm a former English teacher and I like singing this one in my garden when my illiterate neighbours do something to piss me off, which is frequently.

@the_kombinator

11 ай бұрын

@@marshwetland3808 That sucks - I got in trouble yesterday by my wife for drinking too many beers with my neighbour lol

weird al single handedly brought back school house rock lessons

@aztrolivr

3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

I just love watching the punctuation marks dancing.

AAAA HOW HAS THIS AGED SO WELLLLL😭😭😭

Found my new theme song!

@TheThirdPew

10 жыл бұрын

hahaha

@april999

10 жыл бұрын

I NEED THIS MUSIC TO LIVE IN HAPPY!!!!

@FearAbsence

10 жыл бұрын

Annie S I need *theres music to live in happy

@april999

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah XD But I was talking about this song in particular

@BigLord

10 жыл бұрын

Hey there Jack! (if any of you other fellas like "Word Crimes", then go watch jacksfilms's YGS series. You won't regret it)

"Weird Al has a big dictionary" hmm...

@robblequoffle8456

3 жыл бұрын

@Exploding Tacos Judging from that comment you made, you clearly need the video

@chef2397

3 жыл бұрын

You both have no punctuation.

@Martwy1312

3 жыл бұрын

@@chef2397 aight

@anonym9893

3 жыл бұрын

@Roach Dogg JR Is "hmm" the new "That's what she said"?!

@danielboro2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@anonym9893 it's the old "I think this has more then one meaning"

My English teacher showed this to my class today are we were vibing to it 😂😂😂

I saw Weird Al in concert once. He puts on an amazing live show!

@gregsteele806

5 ай бұрын

He really does. He actually sang to my wife once. Of course, he sang,"Your eyes are even bluer than the water in my toilet bowl." but you take what you get with Al. ;)

@nbuehster

4 ай бұрын

@@gregsteele806 Your wife's response: My eyes aren't blue. Al's response: Neither is the water in my toilet.

Parody’s better than original

@richard3365

Жыл бұрын

When it comes to "Weird Al" (quotes are actually officially part of the name) the vast majority of his parodies are better than the original. Also, in light of the song being about grammar, I seriously hope you meant "This parody is better" as opposed to "Parodies are better." I have seen the 's used as an attempt to make words plural before, but that's not how it works.

@unfolding169

Жыл бұрын

@@richard3365 I did mean “this parody is better”.

@zaphodthenth

Жыл бұрын

I agree. The original was nothing special, but this is far better.

@MrsMster

Жыл бұрын

mainly because this version isn't about r*pe

@michaelp4387

Жыл бұрын

is this a parody of something? what's the original then?