Jack Black is aware of what you want. So, after giving a bit of tease of his band Tenacious D’s rocked-up cowl of Britney Spears signature 1998 Billboard Scorching 100 No. 1 smash “…Child One Extra Time” final week, the singer/actor dropped the complete factor on Friday (March 8). As well as, Black and TD bandmate Kyle Gass obtained all dressed up for the track’s video, which they recorded on the pink carpet on the Sunday’s Los Angeles premiere for the Black-starring animated quadquel Kung Fu Panda 4.
The clip finds Black — wearing a black and white tuxedo — pulling off some spectacular excessive entrance kicks on the carpet as he and Gass strut and dance to the duvet’s funky, fat-bottomed riff, with Black dispatching his associate in rock at one level with a sequence of pantomimed punches and foot snaps.
As a result of the track will play over the tip credit of the film out right this moment (March 8), Black and Gass share the display within the video with the movie’s co-stars, together with Bryan Cranston, Ke Huy Quan, Dustin Hoffman, Awkwafina and James Hong, who gamely dance, goof round and throw air haymakers on the excitable Black as he sings, “hit me child, however not too arduous.”
After the TikTok tease of the duvet went viral final week, Black instructed The Hollywood Reporter the origin story for the new Spears take. “[Kung Fu Panda 4 director Mike Mitchell] stated, ‘Hey, we might like to have a Tenacious D track for the tip credit’ and I used to be like, ‘Actually? Can we do Britney Spears?’ He stated, yeah, and he stated, ‘Let’s do Hit Me Child One Extra Time for the kung fu facet of that track,’ and we have been like, ‘Hell yeah.’”
At press time, it didn’t seem that Spears — who deactivated her Instagram earlier this week — had reacted to the complete video on her socials.
Take a look at Tenacious D’s “…Child One Extra Time” video under.
