Gal Gadot's "Imagine" Video Inspires Blink-182 Cover From Mac DeMarco, Danny Brown, & More
In ways that she couldn’t have possibly anticipated, Gal Gadot gave the world a great gift last week. When Gadot rounded up a bunch her friends to sing lines from John Lennon’s “Imagine” into their phones, she gave us all something that we can mercilessly clown while we’re stuck in quarantine. Already, there have been plenty parody videos. We’ve already posted Zack Fox and friends’ version “Slob On My Knob.” There’s also Twitching Tongues frontman Colin Young rounding up a bunch recognizable hardcore figures to sing Smash Mouth’s “All Star” and sportswriter Pablo S. Torre getting a bunch sports-media figures to do Linkin Park’s “In The End.” Last night, indie rock got in on the action, and they did it the timeless medium Blink-182.
The latest “Imagine” parody is Dr. Dog’s Eric Slick bringing his own friends together to take on Blink-182’s “I Miss You,” the 2003 heartsick banger a ballad. The cast characters in this video is pretty wide-ranging and impressive. It includes Mac DeMarco, Danny Brown, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, Natalie Prass, Kevin Morby, Caroline Rose, Pedro The Lion’s David Bazan, Riley Walker, both members Whitney, both members Ohmme, Lucius’ Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, NNAMDÏ, DJ Harrison, pop songwriter Matthew Koma, and comedian Demi Adejuyigbe.
A whole lot these people do their approximations Tom DeLonge’s fake-English California whine thing, a dubious but understandable choice. Danny Brown gets the big hook, which was the right call. Watch it all happen below.
imagine @blink182 pic.twitter.com/nhj7KBgwrA
— Eric Slick (@ericslickmusic) March 24, 2020
This is great and all, but Mount Eerie mastermind and noted “I Miss You” fan Phil Elverum should really be here.