‘Weird Al’ Yankovic is very good at what he does. It might seem easy — juvenile, even — to write funny words to the tune of existing hits, but to do it with his precision and have so many of the jokes land… that’s difficult.

Even more impressive is Yankovic’s ability to mirror the sound and style of so many different genres. Yesterday it was the laid-back funk of Robin Thicke, and here it’s the sparse indie pop of Lorde.

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