Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber and Kris Wu feature in star-studded ‘Earth’ music video about climate change
- To celebrate Earth Day, American rapper and comedian Lil Dicky wrangled some of the biggest names in the business to star in Earth
- Hailee Steinfeld, Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg, Kevin Hart, Adam Levine and Shawn Mendes were among the stars involved
Ahead of today’s Earth Day 2019, dozens of celebrities including Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber and rising Chinese star Kris Wu were enlisted by rapper and comedian Lil Dicky for an anthemic and bawdy Earth music video, ripping names from the pop charts and beyond to sing about climate change.
“Why did it take me so long to get wind of this?” Lil Dicky asked in a release. “I feel like everybody on the planet should be talking about this 24/7. But that’s not the case. So I wanted to make the most entertaining and epic piece of content possible, to get everyone aware and talking.”
The next decade will be critical in fighting the effects of climate change. But after watching the video for Earth, we’re guessing people will be talking more about details like Justin Bieber as a baboon obsessed with his own butt, or Kevin Hart making an appearance as Kanye West, or Lil Yachty showing up under a microscope as an animated HPV virus that begs, “Don’t let me in!”
No, this is not star-studded charity single We Are the World, though it does “forgive” Germany and salute marijuana, the latter voiced by Snoop Dogg. The backbone is the simple refrain: “We love the Earth. It is our planet. We love the Earth. It is our home.” All the people-as-animals chime in between choruses.
Leonardo DiCaprio, whose foundation will distribute all profits from the song to select charities fighting climate change, chimes in with an endorsement of Earth: “This might be my favourite song ever.” In the video, Dicky nominates DiCaprio as the chosen one should aliens ever swing by and require a negotiator because of the actor-activist’s environmental knowledge.
