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"Weird Al" Yankovic - Mission Statement (Official 4K Video)

alyankovicVEVO1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2017-2026
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4.3M views · 12 years ago · music · evergreen

Weird Al's whiteboard-animated music video parodying corporate buzzword culture, from the album Mandatory Fun. The lyrics are packed with business jargon.

Mostly posted as a joke in threads about corporate-speak, buzzwords and meeting culture.

Satire & parodyMusic performance & songs#weirdal#corporatespeak#buzzwords#parody#missionstatement

8 comments from Hacker News

@Freak_NL2026 · in “Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language”

Good idea for a unit test for this: if you put the lyrics to "Weird Al" Yankovic's Mission Statement in, it should return the exact same text as output. ▶ this video

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@bitwize2023 · in “Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5”

If you train an AI on enough Teams meetings, it will probably eventually generate the lyrics to "Mission Statement": ▶ this video

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@dsr_2021 · in “Unsuck It (2010)”

▶ this video (Weird Al Yankovic: Mission Statement) First verse: We must all efficiently Operationalize our strategies Invest in world-class technology And leverage our core competencies

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@bombledmonk2020 · in “The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic”

I'm surprised the corporate culture parody song Mission Statement didn't come up. Every person who's ever been in a corporation should watch. ▶ this video

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@all22019 · in “A former lead designer of Gmail fixes Gmail with a Chrome extension”

Now I want to try this. I'll start my brainstorming session by watching this: ▶ this video I can make my website here: link Now, what am I missing?

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@dtech2018 · in “Mutiny at the big five is part of the future of work”

Oh my god, I did not know that Poe's law applied to corporate marketing now. I could not distinguish this from a parody song like Weird Al Yankovic's - "Mission Statement" [1] [1] ▶ this video

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@framebit2018 · in “Ask HN: What buzzwords or expressions do you dislike the most?”

- Cognitive - Solutioning - Learning as a noun, as in "these are some good learnings" - Most things mentioned in Weird Al's brilliant lampoon of Judy Blue Eyes using corporate-speak: ▶ this video

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@csours2017 · in “Can Ford Turn Itself into a Tech Company?”

> Instead, I heard the Ford Motor Company described as a “mobility solutions provider” that engages in “multimodal journey planning.” People spoke about “whiteboarding” and “blue-skying” big ideas. I watched a video that described Ford’s efforts to build a “holistic, organic, interconnected system powered by a transportation operating system.” "Weird Al" Yankovic - Mission Statement: ▶ this video

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