"First World Problems" is a song by the American parody artist and satirist "Weird Al" Yankovic from his 2014 studio album Mandatory Fun.
[1] In 2014, when the song released, Yankovic stated in an interview with Newsweek, "I've been a fan of Pixies for a very long time.
[3] The music video, directed by Liam Lynch, shows Yankovic dressed up, mad at various things mentioned in the lyrics.
In an interview with PopCrush around the time of the song's release, Yankovic said, "So we thought, 'OK, we'll find you a douchey blonde wig … [which was made of] real human hair … and I tried it on, and it fit, and we had fun with it!".
[4] In an interview with Rolling Stone, he said, "I told [director Liam Lynch] that I didn’t want to be myself; I wasn't Weird Al in this video — I was kind of like this douchey character.