Depending on your outlook, the album was either irritatingly gauche in its outlook, or a bracing blast of agit-prop punk at a time when most pop music shrank away from anything vaguely political.
In fact, according to a survey Billboard released earlier this year, the volume of R&B and hip-hop songs crossing over to pop radio shrank dramatically between 1993 and 2016.
Have pop stars really shrunk, along with their sales figures?
Parodies take time, and Mr. Yankovic has a problem staying current amid pop's ever-shrinking careers.
(Like JoJo, who will be 16 on Wednesday, doing a tame imitation of a fierce diva). Have pop stars really shrunk, along with their sales figures?
The difference between big-budget musicals and blockbuster pop concerts has shrunk over the years, since shows like "Mamma Mia!" can seem like a loosely connected collection of songs, while music tours regularly package carefully constructed star personas inside elaborate stagecraft and a narrative frame.
Meshell Ndegeocello's place in pop culture has shrunk since her mid-'90s days on MTV.
Mom and pop bookshops might shrink from slick new technology, but Amazon is comfortable in the tech sector, and "digital is how we do things now". So although a glimpse of a catchy window display might capture the occasional book shopper, he expects "Amazon to use these centers as places to experience the Amazon brand," including products like the Kindle and the Echo.
Music by Adele and Mr Blacc is hook-based and geared for mainstream radio play, but it has just enough grit and style to set it apart from the shrink-wrapped pop ballads from the likes of Rihanna, Beyoncé and Justin Bieber.
If you press the home button while a program is playing, the player window will shrink and pop out to let you do other things.
Over time we have seen store footprints shrink, pop-up lease terms (aka license agreements) lengthen in duration and the strategies get more experimental.
