Weird Al's 5th Mandatory Fun music video is a Sports Song

The fifth song in the first week of Weird Al music videos for his new album Mandatory Fun has arrived. This is "Sports Song" – the first of the collection to appear without a direct parody of a song in mind. Each of the other music videos that've come earlier this week have been parodies of songs that've been popular over the past several months.

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For those of you STILL unaware, Weird Al does not ONLY parody songs that already exist. Instead, he's a master of skew. In this case, he takes the classic marching band song – a fight song sort of thing – and turns it into a bash of the opposite team. We'd be overjoyed to sing this at some point in the future when our children hit high school without a doubt.


In this track you'll find the real-deal Riverside City College Marching Tigers working with Weird Al to create a simple, humorous translation of the song. According to Funny or Die, the place where this video is released, "Weird Al Yankovic doesn't need a full marching band behind him to tell you your team sucks. But it definitely doesn't hurt."

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This is the 5th of 8 videos that'll be released this week in support of Mandatory Fun. Now that Mandatory Fun is the #1 album on iTunes, you'll really, really want to hit up that brand new SlashGear Weird Al tag portal for more.

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