"Weird Al" Has Eight Mandatory, Fun New Videos To Show You

Legendary parodist-musician "Weird Al" Yankovic is continuing the long march of album promo with a series of revelations on Twitter, including that he will be releasing eight music videos over eight days from July 14 to help celebrate the July 15 (July 18 in Australia) release of his fourteenth studio LP, Mandatory Fun.

Yankovic has been dropping breadcrumbs about the album since mid-last month, first revealing the album's release date before unveiling the title the same week he appeared as Isaac Newton in an episode of Epic Rap Battles Of History.

Now, alongside the rest of the hints and titbits, Yankovic has also unveiled the album's track list, which scrubs up a little like this:

1. Handy
2. Lame Claim To Fame
3. Foil
4. Sports Song
5. Word Crimes
6. My Own Eyes
7. NOW That's What I Call Polka!
8. Mission Statement
9. Inactive
10. First World Problems
11. Tacky
12. Jackson Park Express

Naturally, speculation is running rife as to which songs Yankovic has chosen to parody, though there are some pretty safe bets among the line-up: it's pretty safe to assume (and plenty have) that either Handy or Tacky will parody Pharrell Williams' Happy, with the other song likely filling in for Iggy Azalea's Fancy (our call is Handy is Iggy, and Tacky, Pharrell -- remind us to check, come release time); Word Crimes has been pegged early on as a likely do-over of Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines; and we'll be incredibly surprised if Foil isn't a reworking of that Lorde song that you may or may not have heard.

With an appearance as Hitler on a recent episode of Comedy Central's Drunk History freshly added to his life achievements, Yankovic is seemingly defying the odds by remaining a popular and, somewhat unbelievably, relevant identity in crossover music-comedy circles, and you'd have to be pretty cynical to not be even a little bit interested in hearing how the veteran entertainer thrives into the second decade of the 21st century.