page_title: Handy (song)
section_title: Recording
hierarchical_section_title: Handy (song) / Recording
caption_attribution_description: English: Iggy Azalea performing at the Irving Plaza in New York City, as part of her The New Classic Tour (2014).
context_page_description: "Handy" is a song by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic from his fourteenth studio album, Mandatory Fun. The song is a parody of the 2014 single "Fancy" by Iggy Azalea, featuring Charli XCX. Yankovic met Azalea in person for permission to spoof the song, and he completed his track shortly before the album was mastered and released. "Handy" focuses on a character who brags about his abilities regarding various handyman tasks. The music video was released on July 17, 2014 and features Yankovic assuming the character portrayed in the song. "Handy" received a mixed response from music critics.
context_section_description: Eleven tracks had been completed for Mandatory Fun and a deadline had been set for the album release, but Yankovic wished to add a "big hit of the summer" to the set. He recalled that he determined the saturation point of "Fancy" by asking his daughter: "I said, 'Are they talking about Iggy Azalea at school?' And she says, 'Well, not so much.' I asked the same thing two weeks later and she said, 'Oh yeah, that's all they're talking about now!'" He then traveled from Los Angeles, California to Denver, Colorado to ask Azalea permission to parody her song. On June 7, 2014, Yankovic was backstage at KS107.5's Summer Jam where Azalea was set to perform. He explained in a radio interview at the event that if his request was approved, he would record his parody the next day.
  Yankovic learned through a promoter that Azalea would be unable to speak to him at the venue, since she was preparing for her show. He was also told that the next opportunity to meet her would be in the United Kingdom; Yankovic felt this was "crazy" and decided to approach her directly. The encounter was described by TMZ as an "ambush" as Yankovic presented the potential parody lyrics to Azalea. He later clarified that the meeting was much more polite and blown out of proportion by TMZ. Yankovic also noted that meeting a spoof target in person is not his usual method for obtaining permission, but was necessary in this instance to meet the album deadline. "Handy" was recorded in June, and Yankovic announced that the album mastering process was complete that same month.
caption: Yankovic approached Iggy Azalea in person for permission to parody her song "Fancy".
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