Jack Black Drops Video for ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Surprise Hit Ballad ‘Peaches’
Jack Black Drops Video for ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Surprise Hit Ballad ‘Peaches’
Bowser's ode to Princess Peach rocketing up digital music charts as animated film surges toward $200 million opening weekend
With The Super Mario Bros. Movie surging toward a $200 million opening weekend, Jack Black-as-Bowser’s piano balled “Peaches” has become a surprise hit on streaming services.
With the track rocketing up digital music charts, Black has teamed with Lyrical Lemonade director Cole Bennett for a music video for the ode to Princess Peach.
The peach-hued visual finds the Tenacious D singer banging away at his Ludwig Van Koopa piano and dancing around a mushroom hut, singing about his unrequited love.
As Rolling Stone wrote in our review of the film, “The obvious showstopper is Jack Black as a loquacious Bowser. If it’s possible to chew scenery in a voiceover booth, Black’s take on the King of the Koopas is dining and his Neil Diamond-lite Tenacious D’ing of Bowser as a love-struck tortured artist is a hit. Expect ‘Peaches, Peaches, Peaches’ to soon be a TikTok staple to the chagrin of parents everywhere.”
“Bowser plays an incredible piano ballad that extols his love for Princess Peach,” co-director Aaron Horvath previously said in a statement. “As we were trying to get the point across of Bowser’s feelings for Peach, it seemed more fun, funny and sweet if we had him sing a song about it.”
“Jack Black is an incredible singer and musician, so we spent a night writing the song and sent the demo to Jack,” Horvath continued. “A couple days later, Jack sent us back a finished track. He had added his own twist on it and his pianist played an original music track for it. We were blown away.”
Lyrical Lemonade also shared a behind-the-scenes video of the making of “Peaches” with more of Black’s song-and-dance, as well as the actor/singer’s first attempt at sketching Bowser:
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