Word Crimes

[Way_Moby]

Spoiler:

Al mentions a "cunning linguist".

Wow... an oral sex joke!

[Yankovic Farley]

Best parody on the album by far, I say. Intelligent, original, silly, and is about a concept that should stand the test of time.

[FreeDeliveryFan]

I can't stand the original, and now that Al parodied this, I'm really glad he did! Clever as always, better than I expected honestly!

[mrbellamy]

Great song, smiled the whole way through. I'm convinced that this will be "the hit". Or at least it should be, the Internet is going to eat this up.

[Big Spoon]

Easily among my favorite songs on the album! Will have to listen a few times to pick up on all the jokes. They were so rapid fire, I'm sure I missed some of them.

[Bruce the Duck]

Easily among my favorite songs on the album! Will have to listen a few times to pick up on all the jokes. They were so rapid fire, I'm sure I missed some of them.

I felt that way with almost every song on the album. Sheesh! It was like listening to a whole album of "Headline News". Very hard to keep up!

Clearly this will be/should be the hit over "Handy", which I'm sure is why Al has committed to a "lead single".

[Alinite27]

LYRICS

Spoiler:

Word Crimes -- Parody of "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke
Everybody shut up! *Hah*
Hey, hey hey! *Everybody listen up* Hey, hey hey! Hey, hey hey! *Turn me up*
If you can't write in the proper way,
If you don't know, how to conjugate
Maybe you flunked that class,
And, maybe now you find,
That people mock you online *Everbody wise up!*
Okay, now here's the deal,
I'll try to educate ya,
Gonna familiarize, you with the nomenclature,
You'll learn the definitions,
Of nouns and prepositions,
Literacy's your mission,
And, that's why I think it's a good time,
To learn some grammar, *What?!*
Now did I stammer,
Work on that grammar,
You should know when,
It's fluff-er it's fewer,
Like people who were,
Never raised in a sewer,
Chorus:
I hate these Word Crimes,
Like I could care less,
That means you do care,
At least a little,
Don't be a moron,
You better slow down,
And use the right pronoun,
Show the world you're no clown *Everybody wise up!*
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Say you've got an IT,
Followed by apostrophe, S
Now what does that mean,
You would not use this in this case,
As a possessive, *No, no no*
It's a contraction, *Yeah, yeah, yeah* *Laughing*
What's a contraction?
Well, it's the shortening of a word, or a group of words, by the emission of a sound or letter...
Okay, now here's some notes,
Syntax you're always dangling,
No X in Espresso,
Your participle's danglin',
But, I don't want your drama,
If you really wanna,
Leave out that Oxford comma,
Just keep in mind,
That we see are you,
Are words not letters?
Get it together,
Use your spellchecker,
You should never,
Write words using numbers,
Unless you're seven,
Or your name is Prince *Everybody wise up!*
Chorus:
I hate these Word Crimes
*Hate them crimes!*
You really need a,
*I hate them crimes!*
Full time proofreader,
*I mean those crimes!*
You dumb mouthbreather,
Well, you should hire,
Some cunning linguist,
To help you distinguish,
What is proper English? *Everybody wise up!*
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One thing I ask of you,
Time to learn your homophones is past due,
To diagram a sentence too,
Always say to whom,
Don't ever say to who,
Yeah, listen up when I tell you this,
I hope you never use quotation marks for emphasis,
If you finished second grade (we, hoo),
You could tell,
If you're doing good or doing well,
Figure out the difference,
Irony is not coincidence,
And, I thought that you'd gotten it through your skull,
What's figurative and what's literal,
Oh but, just now, you said,
You literally couldn't get out of bed, *What?!*
That really makes me want to literally smack a crowbar upside your stupid head,
I read your e-mail,
It's quite apparent,
You're grammar's errant,
You're incoherant,
Saw your blog post,
It's really fantastic,
That was sarcastic, *Oh, psych!*
'Cause you write like a spastic
Chorus:
I hate these Word Crimes,
*Everybody wise up!*
Your pose is dopey,
*Hey!*
Think you should only,
*Oooo, hoooo*
Write in imogy,
Oh, you're a lost cause,
*Hey, hey hey hey*
Go back to preschool,
Get out of the gene pool,
*Hey, hey hey*
Try your best to not drool,
*Never mind I give up*
*Really now I give up*
*Hey, hey hey*
*Hey, hey hey*
*Go Away!*

[Killingsworth]

I just heard a 30 second sample of this song on YouTube

Spoiler:

So far, it sounds like a clever and well put together parody. Can't wait to hear the rest, but I find it kind of strange that Al parodied T.I.'s rap verse. What he did with is is great, but does this officially mean Al has "parodied" T.I. twice in the span of a mere two albums?

[WalterWhite]

A few corrections to the lyrics:

Spoiler:

It's fluff-er it's fewer
It's less or it's fewer
You would not use this in this case
You would not use it's in this case
That we see are you
This was a little hard to make out, but I think it's "That be see are you."
Your pose is dopey
Your prose is dopey
Write in imogy
Write in emoji

EDIT: What does he say in the background after

Spoiler:

"If you can't write in the proper way"?

[Skippy]

Some more thoughts on these lyrics...

Spoiler:

Okay, now here's some notes,
Syntax you're always dangling,

Spoiler:

"mangling" not "dangling"

Spoiler:

Just keep in mind,
That we see are you,
Are words not letters?

Spoiler:

That "be," "see," "are," "you"
Are words, not letters.

Note: He's saying use the full words (be, see, are, you) not the letters (b, c, r, u). This goes with the part after it about numbers and the Prince joke.