"Word Crimes" is a song by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic from his fourteenth studio album, Mandatory Fun (2014).

Yankovic chose a topic that would be distinct from those used in many pre-existing parodies, and that would avoid the misogyny issues that had arisen from the source material.

"Word Crimes" received favorable reviews from contemporary music critics, as some describing it as a highlight of Mandatory Fun.

[1] Yankovic had surveyed his online competition and was disappointed that many parodies revolved around rape (due to the original song's controversy).

MTV News considered it a spoof on the increasing popularity of lyric videos, calling it "a pretty incredible piece of animation".

[11] Heather had previously gained fame in producing a similar typography video for Jonathan Coulton's song "Shop Vac".

[15] The video spoofs a number of facets of the original "Blurred Lines" video, such as the large hashtags in the original that appear seemingly at random, dancing letters and punctuation symbols on an off-white background, and ends with the phrase "'Weird Al' Yankovic has a big dictionary" spelled in balloon letters.

An illustration on a college notebook cover includes Pac-Man and the character Trogdor the Burninator from the Homestar Runner animated web series.

[23] Billboard called the song the album's best, writing that "[a] more satirical, cynical parodist could have taken this in a million super-searing directions, but Al isn't interested in commenting on Thicke's alleged misogyny.

"[24] The work has received some negative attention from linguists and educators, who view the prescriptivism celebrated in the song as scientifically ill-informed, arbitrary, and encouraging of unnecessary and damaging social distinctions.

[29] It made him only the third artist in popular music history to have at least one Top 40 single in every decade since the 1980s, alongside previous parody targets Madonna and Michael Jackson.