Weird Al Yankovic: Foil (2014)

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Weird Al Yankovic: Foil (2014)

No one is safe from the parodies of Weird Al Yankovic and in fact it's a badge of honour and acknowledgement that “you've made it” if he takes one of your hits and inverts it.

If you are an artist offended by it then you take yourself too seriously.

So here he is rewriting Lorde's famous break-out hit about accepting we'll never be part of the in-crowd and aren't ashamed of our postcode.

In fact, we're just people who ask if we can take the left-overs on our plate at the restaurant (or cheap Chinese dumpling place) home as a doggie bag.

One of the greatest tributes to aluminum foil, and it's many uses . . . especially for tin hats.

Lotta targets hit in just 2.22 seconds.

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