All good things must come to an end. After releasing hilarious music video after hilarious music video, today (July 21), parodist Weird Al Yankovic released his final official visual from his new album Mandatory Fun, and this time he's teaching you the ways of business in "Mission Statement."
Done in the style of Crosby, Stills & Nash, Yankovic's song "Mission Statement" plays off buzzy office keywords in a song that actually has no true meaning beyond the fact that someone is qualified for a job or a business is making money. We're talking synergy, globalization, day-to-day operations and incentivizing clients.
Only Weird Al could make such concepts fun at all.
As for the music video, Yankovic took the lyric video route a la "Word Crimes," drawing out his key business phrases on a white board, alongside fitting visuals such as skyscrapers, analytic charts and, of course, plenty of dollar signs.
It's a fitting take on the meaningless words seen and heard on resumes and in business presentations. I mean, what does "holistically administrate" or "brand trajectory" actually mean? We here at Music Times aren't quite sure, but we're laughing anyway.
Watch the music video for Weird Al Yankovic's "Mission Statement" below, or over at The Wall Street Journal:
"Mission Statement" is the final music video in Yankovic's eight days, eight videos series surrounding the release of his new album Mandatory Fun. Previously, he released clips for "Tacky," "Word Crimes," "Foil," "Handy," "Sports Song," "First World Problems" and "Lame Claim to Fame."
Yankovic's new album Mandatory Fun was released on Tuesday, July 15.
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