If you’ve seen the Super Mario Bros. Movie, you may have struggled to get Jack Black’s “Peaches” earworm out of your head.
The exuberant Jack Black ballad, in character as Bowser, is a highight of the film, and the catchiest movie track since Encanto’s Bruno. I even heard it being chanted by the younger viewers around me as I left the cinema.
It’s also now hit the US song charts as well, and has marked Black’s first solo entry in the Billboard Hot 100. On YouTube, meanwhile, the song’s music video has racked up 17m views in 11 days. Let’s watch:
Peaches was worked on in collaboration with Black as a late addition to the Super Mario Bros. Movie, and was not present in the films initial draft.
“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,” director Aaron Horvath previously said.
“We spent a night writing the song and sent the demo to Jack. 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.”