It’s getting more durable and more durable to search out the right birthday present for family and friends after the world has spent a number of years stress procuring on-line whereas trapped at house. But the right present is now only a few clicks away as a result of American Greetings has finally introduced “Weird Al” Yankovic as an choice to its video SmashUp video playing cards, customized for over 1,000 completely different names.

Personalized movies from celebrities aren’t a brand new concept, however you not must have a pal of your cousin’s spouse’s stylist who went to highschool with a given celeb to make it occur. Sites like Cameo characteristic an extended checklist of well-known folks—from actors to singers to athletes—all desirous to make a number of further bucks by recording a fast video and a personalised message. You simply must set your expectations low in relation to the manufacturing values and the passion within the customized video you’re paying for.

It’s a special story with American Greetings’ SmashUp video cards. The collection of celebrities is likely to be smaller (“Weird Al” joins different musicians like Alicia Keys, Donnie Osmond, and Dolly Parton) however the manufacturing values are by means of the roof, and “Weird Al” is joined by a barbershop quartet and a gospel choir whereas he performs Happy Birthday in addition to one other birthday music he wrote from scratch.

What’s most spectacular is that customizing the video is as straightforward as making picks from two pull-down menus on the American Greetings web site and app. You can select from a handful of generic titles for the recipient like Aunt, Mom, or Sister, or keep on with their precise title assuming it’s included within the intensive checklist of over 1,000 actual names (sorry, there’s nonetheless no Bort) that are paired with a listing of choices for specifying (or remaining obscure about) the particular person’s age.

The recipient’s title and age are included into the efficiency. And whereas the speedy assumption is that American Greetings has gone the deep fakes route to create 1000’s of variations of this video, the standard and the intelligent modifying as a substitute level to “Weird Al” having spent a really lengthy day within the recording sales space and on set to cowl each final possibility provided.

The solely draw back to gifting somebody a personalised “Weird Al” video for his or her birthday is that American Greetings doesn’t promote them as one-offs. Instead, it’s leveraging the novelty of the thought to drive customers to enroll in an American Greetings account and subscription, which seems to start out at $5/month, nevertheless it will get cheaper when you’re keen to get locked in with a one or two-year subscription.