World of Weird Al Yankovic

mrmeadows wrote:Love him or hate him, Robin Thicke posted the "Word Crimes" video on his FB page:
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Pret-ty, pret-ty, pret-ty good...

Class act!

But he messed up the lyric in his post.

So then he committed a word crime?

Not really, just not proper quotation of the song

He also tweeted it, but the responses never mention the song at all, but are just people using the opportunity to tell RT they love him. (And "please follow me!") Okie-dokie.
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So... is it seven (age), Se7en (movie) or just either? I feel like the movie makes more sense, but the video doesn't make a reference to it like I thought it might.

Wow, Se7en didn't even occur to me till you said something. The booklet just lists it as "seven" though, so I'm guessing that's it.

I'm positive it's probably been said before, but in case anyone did not notice, in the music video when it says "Word Crimes" and it's designed like a dictionary, it's the "twenty-seventh" edition.

PlayAWarGame wrote:

weird user wrote:I didn't realize that Word Crimes and First World Problems were two different songs (they both have the similar "Word"/"World" in the titles).

Which means I should start paying more attention to the full track listings when they are posted. I think somebody heard that one of the songs would be controversial, and I was expecting it to be Word Crimes.

Word Crimes is the more controversial of the two, due to its parody subject.

Oh, I was expecting the content itself to be controversial. I usually don't think a parody of something controversial is controversial (after all, Sesame Street has occasionally spoofed more adult things that kids shouldn't be exposed to). And I haven't heard the original song.

weirdalex1311 wrote:So... is it seven (age), Se7en (movie) or just either? I feel like the movie makes more sense, but the video doesn't make a reference to it like I thought it might.

I brought this up earlier and I personally think that in the context of the song, it's "seven" as in the age. However, I firmly believe that Al chose the age of seven specifically as a subtle reference to the film's distinctive title art. There are so many other ways to convey that it's something a child would do, and I find it very hard to believe it's a total coincidence that he picked the one that also relates to the movie.

That would explain why it's not referenced in the video. It's just a little tangential joke that isn't supposed to be obvious, but it's there for anyone who wants it.