--- title: Weird Al Lorde Royals Parody description: Weird Al's latest music video is a parody of Lorde's "Royals" canonical: https://time.com/2992665/weird-als-parody-of-lordes-royals-is-about-foil/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-16T16:29:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:44.993Z og:title: WATCH: Weird Al Parodies Lorde's "Royals" og:description: You might even be blinded by science og:url: https://time.com/2992665/weird-als-parody-of-lordes-royals-is-about-foil/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: WATCH: Weird Al Parodies Lorde's "Royals" twitter:description: You might even be blinded by science twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Weird Al's Parody of Lorde's "Royals" Is About...Foil  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 16, 2014 4:29 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 16, 2014 4:29 PM UTC “Weird Al” Yankovic’s latest music video is a parody of Lorde’s “Royals” about aluminum foil. It also features a cameo by Patton Oswalt. Sample lyric: “I just like to keep all my flavors sealed in tight / with aluminum foil (foil) / never settle for less / that kind of wrap is just the best / to keep your sandwich nice and fresh.” Things start to get a little weird, however, when he starts ranting about conspiracy theories. Weird Al is releasing a music video a day for eight days to promote his new album _M_ _andatory Fun,_ which came out July 15\. Past spoofs include a parody of Pharrell Williams’s “Happy” called “[Tacky](http://time.com/2982351/weird-al-yankovic-tacky-pharrell-happy/)” and a grammar-themed parody of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” called “[Word Crimes](http://time.com/2988041/let-weird-al-teach-you-about-grammar-in-his-new-blurred-lines-parody/).” **MORE:** [The Al Yankovic Paradox: He Doesn’t Seem That Weird Anymore](http://time.com/2949882/weird-al-yankovic-not-that-weird/) **WATCH:** [Let Weird Al Teach You About Grammar in His New “Blurred Lines” Parody](http://time.com/2988041/let-weird-al-teach-you-about-grammar-in-his-new-blurred-lines-parody/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2992665/weird-als-parody-of-lordes-royals-is-about-foil/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2992665/weird-als-parody-of-lordes-royals-is-about-foil/"},"headline":"Weird Al's Parody of Lorde's \"Royals\" Is About...Foil","datePublished":"2014-07-16T16:29:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:44.993Z","description":"You might even be blinded by science","url":"https://time.com/2992665/weird-als-parody-of-lordes-royals-is-about-foil/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2992665/weird-als-parody-of-lordes-royals-is-about-foil/","name":"Weird Al's Parody of Lorde's \"Royals\" Is About...Foil"}}]}] ```