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Weezer - Africa (starring Weird Al Yankovic)


If you've ever wanted to see the Internet fold itself up into a burrito and consume itself hungrily over the course of four minutes, you've come to the right place. You see, 

's iconic-but-maybe-not-iconic 1983 hit "Africa," and it's got... 

 in place of Rivers Cuomo, parodying the video for Weezer's 1994 hit "

." So, to review, what you've got here is a video of a left-field cover that doubles as a "Weird Al" Yankovic parody of a 

video by the band that performs the left-field cover.


Be sure to tune in next week, when Toto dresses as 

 to perform Weezer's parody of "Weird Al" Yankovic's hit video for 1984's "Eat It." In the meantime, I'm gonna go lie down.

Stephen Thompson

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If you've ever wanted to see the Internet fold itself up into a burrito and consume itself hungrily over the course of four minutes, you've come to the right place.

Weezer made a video for its 'Africa' cover, and of course it stars 'Weird Al' Yankovic

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