Did anyone haveJack Blackreleasing aBritney Spearscover on their 2024 bingo card?
“Ask and you shall receive…” wrote Tenacious D on social media alongside a link to stream the cover, which puts a guitar-heavy rock spin on the chart-topping 1998 pop track.
Jack Black, Britney Spears.Mike Marsland/WireImage; Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
Mike Marsland/WireImage; Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
“Tenacious B! 🐼,” read the caption of the video on Black’sTikTokandInstagramaccounts, whilethe bandshared the clip to X (formerly Twitter) and wrote, “STILL BELIEVE 🐼💥🐯.”
“Yeah. So, people don’t know … I don’t even know if I’m allowed to say. I’m just going to give you the scoop, but the director, Mike, said, ‘Hey. We’d love to have a Tenacious D song …,’ said Black. “That’s Mike right there … ‘at the end credits. Will you do a song?’ ”
Black continued that he and Gass “cranked out a Tenacious D version of, and it’s going to be at the end credits.”
Kyle Gass and Jack Black of Tenacious D.Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
Black delivered an impromptucover of Swift’s Grammy-winningMidnightstrack “Anti-Hero"during The Give Back-ular Spectacular! event in Los Angeles back in October 2023, held to support SAG-AFTRA members duringthe Hollywood strike.
He stripped down to just boxers while performing the song and received cheers from the audience, according to a fan-postedvideo from the event. The Swift cover arrived after Black released “Peaches,” a successful track fromThe Super Mario Bros. Movie.
source: people.com
