The song’s one-shot music video parodies “Happy”, and was the first in a series of eight videos released over eight days in promotion of Mandatory Fun. Pharrell Williams was “honored” to give Yankovic permission to use his song “Happy”. Yankovic stated “This is tacky valentines day gifts first time where I’ve gotten everybody that I wanted, and I couldn’t be happier about it.

The song mocks people whose actions and style are generally considered gauche. The music video for “Tacky” debuted on July 14, 2014, as the first in an eight-video series. Rolling Stone reviewed the song “Tacky”, stating that “Weird Al is in fine form throughout the track”. In their review of Mandatory Fun, the publication wrote: “Sure, there’s a touch of hypocrisy in a guy as gloriously tacky as Al taking shots at the shameless but who really cares when it’s this much fun. Weird Al’ Yankovic smartly skewers, embraces pop culture”.

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