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Mandatory Fun

Mandatory Fun is the fourteenth and final studio album by the American parody musician "Weird Al" Yankovic. The self-produced album was released by RCA Records in the United States on July 15, 2014. Yankovic had previously released Alpocalypse in 2011 and was touring in support of it when he first spoke of his next record. When he began to work on…

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Genres
Comedy · parody
Labels
RCA · Way Moby
Length
45:20
Producer
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Recorded
September 4, 2012 – June 12, 2014
Released
July 15, 2014 (2014-07-15)

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Avg. degree1.99
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related to Recording · 39
Mandatory Fun → Allston, Amanda Palmer's, Bedrock, Blurred Lines, Fame, First World Problems, Get Lucky, GoDaveyGo Studio, Happy, He, Her, I've, Imagine Dragons, Inactive, Jackson Park Express, Kim Deal, Lame Claim, Los Angeles, Mad Oak Studios, Massachusetts
related to Commercial performance · 35
Mandatory Fun → ABC World News, Allan Sherman's My Son, Alpocalypse, August, Beyoncé, Billboard Hot, Billboard Twitter Real-Time Trending, Businessweek, Butt-head Experience, He, His, I'm, I've, In, Internet's, It, Jason Mraz's Yes, Jay-Z, July, Justin Timberlake
related to Music videos · 26
Mandatory Fun → Alpocalypse, Although, Beyoncé, Beyoncé Knowles, CollegeHumor, Die, During, Fox Business, Funny, He, Hey, Internet, July, Knowles, MTV, Nobody, RCA Records, So, Stuart Varney, The
related to Composition · 23
Mandatory Fun → Annie Zaleski, Azalea, Azalea's, Billboard, Club, Fame, Fancy, Foil, Handy, Iggy Azalea, It, Kenneth Partridge, Kevin O'Keeffe, Lame Claim, Lorde, O'Keeffe, Problem, Royals, Skids, Sports Song
related to Promotion · 21
Mandatory Fun → Adolf Hitler, After, Ask Me Anything, Before, Comedy Central, Drunk History, Epic Rap Battles, He, History, Hitler, Hulu, Isaac Newton, July, June, On June, Orlando, Reddit, Rolling Stone, The Hotwives, Yankovic
related to Critical response · 14
Mandatory Fun → ABC News's Allan Raible, Billboard, Club, Metacritic, Paste, Rolling Stone, Tacky, The, The Los Angeles Times, Weird Al, What, Word Crimes, Yankovic, Yankovic's
related to Packaging · 14
Mandatory Fun → August, Chinese, Communist, I'm, I've, It's, RCA Records, Regarding, Rolling Stone, Russian, Soviet, That, The, Yankovic
Studios · 4
Mandatory Fun → Bedrock L.A. (Los Angeles), GoDaveyGo (Los Angeles), Mad Oak (Allston, Massachusetts), Way Station (Los Angeles, California)
Genres · 2
Mandatory Fun → Comedy, parody
Labels · 2
Mandatory Fun → RCA, Way Moby

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yankovic album song mandatory video fun first parody songs yankovic's release music one original 2014 videos week comedy released later

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Mandatory FunGenresComedy1.00infobox
Mandatory FunGenresparody1.00infobox
Mandatory FunLabelsRCA1.00infobox
Mandatory FunLabelsWay Moby1.00infobox
Mandatory FunLength45:201.00infobox
Mandatory FunProducer"Weird Al" Yankovic1.00infobox
Mandatory FunRecordedSeptember 4, 2012 – June 12, 20141.00infobox
Mandatory FunReleasedJuly 15, 2014 (2014-07-15)1.00infobox
Mandatory FunStudiosWay Station (Los Angeles, California)1.00infobox
Mandatory FunStudiosGoDaveyGo (Los Angeles)1.00infobox
Mandatory FunStudiosBedrock L.A. (Los Angeles)1.00infobox
Mandatory FunStudiosMad Oak (Allston, Massachusetts)1.00infobox
Mandatory Funis afourteenth and final studio album by the American parody musician0.90text

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