--- title: Video: Barack Obama Sings Fancy by Iggy Azalea description: Watch President Barack Obama "sing" Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" canonical: https://time.com/3086886/video-president-obama-sing-iggy-azaleas-fancy/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-06T20:41:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:13.446Z og:title: WATCH: President Obama "Sings" Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" og:description: Watch President Barack Obama "sing" Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" og:url: https://time.com/3086886/video-president-obama-sing-iggy-azaleas-fancy/ 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: President Obama "Sings" Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" twitter:description: Watch President Barack Obama "sing" Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch President Obama "Sing" Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 6, 2014 8:41 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 6, 2014 8:41 PM UTC President Obama is so fancy, but he already knows, he’s in the fast lane from L.A. to Tokyo and he sings all about it in this “cover” of Iggy Azalea’s hit, “Fancy.” The YouTube Channel BarackDubs has taken snippets from the President’s speeches and weaved them together into a tapestry that mirrors Iggy Azalea’s flow. In the past, the viral video stars have made Obama look like he’s singing hits likes Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” Miley Cyrus’ [“Party in the USA”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1w%5FipzsEBc) and Carly Rae Jepsen’s “[Call Me Maybe.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX1YVzdnpEc) It’s a fun clip, but it lacks the of sly-eyed elan of their previous venture, [Bill Clinton singing “Blurred Lines.” ](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/07/24/watch-bill-clinton-sings-robin-thickes-blurred-lines/) **MORE**: [Questlove on Iggy Azalea: “Black People Have to Come to Grips That Hip-Hop Is a Contagious Culture”](http://time.com/3023337/questlove-interview-soundclash/) **MORE**: [Here’s Weird Al’s Parody of Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy”](http://time.com/3001615/heres-weird-als-parody-of-iggy-azaleas-fancy/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3086886/video-president-obama-sing-iggy-azaleas-fancy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3086886/video-president-obama-sing-iggy-azaleas-fancy/"},"headline":"Watch President Obama \"Sing\" Iggy Azalea's \"Fancy\"","datePublished":"2014-08-06T20:41:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:13.446Z","description":"It's not real, but it's still spectacular","url":"https://time.com/3086886/video-president-obama-sing-iggy-azaleas-fancy/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Obama","Videos","President Barack Obama","Iggy Azalea","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"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/3086886/video-president-obama-sing-iggy-azaleas-fancy/","name":"Watch President Obama \"Sing\" Iggy Azalea's \"Fancy\""}}]}] ```