While everyone is busy listening to Taylor Swift's 1989 or monitoring the pop icon's battle against Spotify, American actor and parodist Weird Al Yankovic has all it takes to steal the limelight. Weird Al is well known for creating parodies of famous hits such as "Eat It" and "Fat" which are originally Michael Jackson's "Beat It" and "Bad." He also parodied Madonna's "Like a Virgin" which he changed into "Like a Surgeon."
In his latest commercial, Weird Al is not parodying any artist's music. This time, he's making a commercial for RadioShack which aims to promote its products particularly drones.
RadioShack is a leading national retailer that offers consumer products and services from popular brands and major wireless carriers.
Wearing a jacket and bow tie and sporting curly blonde hairstyle, Weird Al gives a tour around the shop to a female shopper who was asking at the beginning of the commercial if they have "heliquads." The commercial lasted a little more than half a minute with Weird Al seen as holding a drone at the last part and saying the word 'batteries.' The closing part also showed a picture of 'Beats' headphones while a voice over that says "Gift smart this season with the coolest speakers, headphones, and toys, at RadioShack" can be heard in the background.
Both Weird Al and RadioShack have enjoyed positive vibes in the early 1990s. The former is said to have enjoyed popular airplay of songs such as "Amish Paradise" and "Smells Like Nirvana" over the radio. Likewise, RadioShack has remained relevant and has managed to earn a fortune from Sony Walkman products and double-A batteries.
Weird Al had successfully taken over the Internet with his recent album 'Mandatory Fun' which became number one on Billboard's charts. Weird Al, who has been making records for three decades, finally hits the top spot which makes him the first comedy act to have achieved such for more than 50 years. "Mandatory Fun" is Weird Al's fourteenth album and his best-selling album as well following the success of 'Straight Outta Lynwood' in 1991 which sold 73,000 copies in its first week of release.
As a way to celebrate the upcoming holiday shopping season, Weird Al believes this is the best time to put his songwriting prowess into a moneymaking tool. While the concept of touring a customer around the shop as a singing salesman may not be entirely new, Weird Al has managed to nail it, this time with a new commercial jingle that is written originally and not as a parody.
Take a look at the video and find out how Weird Al gives the type of customer service that any discerning shopper could be thankful for.
