Hard-rock funnymen Tenacious D have unveiled their latest stunt: a hysterical cover of Britney Spears' sultry bubblegum-pop classic "...Baby One More Time."
The duo of Jack Black and Kyle Gass recorded the cover for the newly-released Kung Fu Panda 4 movie (starring Black), but they've released it as a standalone music video that, in classic Tenacious D fashion, is totally over-the-top in the best way possible.
It's a good bit funkier than Spears' original version, but Black's Zeppelin-inspired vocals actually work really well with the melody. It's as delightful as you could hope for from a hard-rock rendition of "...Baby One More Time" — and the D are proud of it.
Earlier this week, Black was at a premiere for the new flick where he spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about the inception of the cover.
"[Kung Fu Panda 4 director Mike Mitchell] said, 'Hey, we would love to have a Tenacious D song for the end credits' and I was like, 'Really? Can we do Britney Spears?'" Black told THR.
"He said, yeah, and he said, 'Let's do ...Baby One More Time for the kung fu aspect of that song,' and we were like, 'Hell yeah.'
"So we got in the recording studio and we did it and we're really proud of the track. We shot a little impromptu music video in Kyle's hotel room and we put it on the internet and it's gone crazy viral. It's exciting."
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