"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes (Official 4K Video) 

It’s Triv LOL YES

the lyrics are very creepy 😖

That is Weird Al in a nutshell.

yes!!

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

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

It is tho

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

Debatable

Well, that depends. Manslaughter CAN be funny.

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

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

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

@@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.

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

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.

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!

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

Honestly, same

Best southern underground hip hop group ever

not just in America...

Canadians can be just as bad :P

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

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

thats funny

He has a point

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.

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

@@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.

😭✌️

especially on the last day i'd say

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

I thought it was "Prius."

same here

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

Ouy’re*

i’m a redditor. your statement is true

U'r

@@timeforamunch2616 Lmao

Your just being a grammar Nazi

Yes

I F K R

what is the original

@@HN-kr1nfrobin thickle blurred lines

And it leaves a great impression on the world.

What’s asmr

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

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

He really is white and nerdy.

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

Heil Grammar!

MEIN APOSTROFEUER!

*APOSTROFUHRER

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

So is this your Mein Kamphf

My grandma has a shirt that says that

@@ZombossLordOfDoom LOL!

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.

@@stevepatrickjarvis that is the obvious point wow!

@@joeycrikey2594 You love being aggressive.

You've gotta be joking

@@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.

@@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.

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

@@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.

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

I think he mean Peter I or Nicholas II.

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

@@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.

Or you’re a troll from homestuck

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

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

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

@@salazamHeh. Speak for yourself.

@@salazam ????? 😭

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.

@@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

One time?

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

Al has many parodies that are better than the original

Hahaha 😂

haha

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.

it was league wasn't it

I too like the new online game

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

@@AnthonyGotterminated ???

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

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

Comedic songs works better with fresh jokes

Look at you use plural possession! 😍

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

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

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!

But are you a cunning linguist?

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

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)

Screwy Squirrel doesn't see the difference...

Lol!

Why not both?

@@chucku00 I JUST CHOKED ON MY WATER

Lets eat Grandma.

Ryan Bananahands 100% agree!

DEFINITELY is an *understatement.*

totaly

I Ara The muchly knows it ises

Ryan Bananahands

Very subtle

*repaid

+Sanja K extremely underrated comment.

Amish Paradise.

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

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

No comments but 212 likes?

crazy

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

460 likes with 3 words wow

@@Uriah625 that's a threat

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

What is the actual song?

@@Tiggster-qr8mw blurred lines

agreed

Yup

Is that figurative or literal?

Or how he literally tells you to not have children.

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

🤣🤣🤣

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

@@kaigao4842 and ends with a literal lizard person

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

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

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Joshua Fogg in to, not into

Odd, to me he is still a new guy.

I hope the misspelled word at the end was for the meme. After all, this song is about grammar. I agree that the song is nice, though! 🙂

ironic considering my English teacher was accused of sexual harassment 7 times

Grammar

@@coltonam2 2:41 "Irony is not coincidence."

@@lukasmalmberg7933 lmao u got me there

I am so sorry that happened 😢

Yet, you learned nada from this video. 🤣

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

+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.

It does by a lot.

Blurred lines sucked lol

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

@@Stella-iW123 is that why we hate him

Yes

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

*Violence*

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

*you forgot the period*

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

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

@@viddork 2:43

Many people still think that irony is a coincidence. lol

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

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

Their

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

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

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

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

Mine is people using apostrophes in the context of a plural; which is surprisingly common.

I know right

I saw some translators using them vice versa like instead of "you're so bad" they use your or when they have to use "your video is good" they are like you're.

Noobster I don't know what your talking about.

***** No, then it would've been "I have 'seen'". It couldn't have been "I have saw"

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

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

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

@@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!_

@@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.

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

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

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

OMG OMG OMG

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

***** That is a word crime.

sure.... or you just cant spell.

Word crime

The Hunter Bruh, the first rule of the internet is to NOT FEED THE TROLLS.

Classic Simpson's quote by Ralph Wiggum.

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

No, blurred lines is still trash.

Gandalf Bengalston I mean in general.

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.

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.

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

You both have no punctuation.

@@chef2397 aight

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

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

might also be the spiciest lyric in any weird al song

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

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

In my country we don't use the slack jawed oxford american dictionary. So don't try to pull that shit in Canada.

If only we could garner this much support for something that actually matters.

Paint Splatter Still it doesn't make it correct ...

M. Krakens So you're saying that language doesn't evolve and words will never change or acquire new meanings? How many years of people using a word in a certain way does it take until its new definition becomes an official part of the language?.. The Oxford Dictionary, even though far from perfect, at least tries keep up with the changes happening in the english language. Dictionaries that don't do this are basically outdated the moment they are printed.

M. Krakens Bless you. :)

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

***** 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.

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.

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.

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. ;)

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

HHAHAAHHAHA

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

He literally says never to use a spell checker

And far less suggestive

"way much better" _ironic_

@@Qstandsforred no, it's ironic, because they made a grammar mistake commenting on a song about proper grammar ;)

@@cynsynth1621 2:40

@@Qstandsforred cyn's right, buddy

hahaha

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

Annie S I need *theres music to live in happy

Yeah XD But I was talking about this song in particular

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

It's my fave part of the song.

69 likes nice

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

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

Yep.

Omg thank u for making me discover this

YES! YES! YES! Oh my God!

Yes, I did!

😁😂😭

You bet!

Why can’t every English lesson be just like this? Cause professors think the internet is stupid.

Cunning linguist and the last comment appeals to those going through extended puberty.

What's this a parody of?

@@cube_control Blurred Lines (by Pharrel Williams)

The original is about getting mixed signals

@@sharjacobs I want to believe that, but it's phased way more like a guy refusing to take no for an answer

The bar's not set too high for this one

because he has an IQ of 180

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

Wait what's the original?

@@soggycatgirl yes.

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

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."

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.

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.

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

Lol mine did too

+Sam “Wesker” Cox I'M SORRY, LOL I NOTICED THAT, but I was too lazy to edit it 😭😂

My freaking English teacher has this on her part of our school's website! XD

+Demonic Cupcake lol

+reneanduray Sammee

There's a joke here.

Sure is. And if you don't get it you probably aren't old enough to get it yet.

Oh, I get it, don't worry. And it's probably the second lamest joke I've read all week.

+Nova Solarius not really a joke. more of an observation.

Yes he did. And Crack ho. Same song actually.

+EMROXRealm as a European that's bs

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

+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!!"

+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.

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

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.

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

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

mainly because this version isn't about r*pe

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

you'd get fired but it'd be worth it

@@prizma45 uP

No not anymore the memes are old. As a child myself the kids won’t like it.

@@wockywojak3280 wait what?

kids won’t like it they’ll find it cringe

Le 10 million downvotes for a missed apostrophe has arrived

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

@@0GlassOfAcid0 grammar

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.

@@TheKingofSteves 0:30

I totally agree. The production is sharp and amazing.

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

@@nowhereman7884 blurred lines

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

@@terri6854 "that peepl mock u onliiiiiiiiiiiine"

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

@@cherry_junii F

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.

No shame in that.

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

couldn't agree more

@Maximilian Somethin' oh yeah yeah

Yep

Amazing. Al is an underrated genius.

Jarrett Heather did some serious work putting that together. The amount of time spent creating each frame was massive.

Check out the one fir Shop Vac by Jonathan Coulton. Same person who did this one made it.