Dave Grohl has launched a canopy of Pink’s “Get the Celebration Began” — that includes the pop star herself — as a part of his ongoing Hanukkah Periods collection.
“My identify’s Alicia. I’m a Jew,” Pink reportedly declared to the gang in attendance on the Largo in Los Angeles on Dec. 5. The singer then powered by way of her 2001 hit, with Grohl on drums, Greg Kurstin on keyboards and an assortment of backing singers. Comic Jack Black even made a shock look, singing one of many tune’s last choruses.
You may watch the newly launched video under.
Pink has by no means been shy about her Jewish heritage or afraid to converse out towards antisemitism. In July, the singer launched a tune known as “Irrelevant,” whose video juxtaposes footage of Republican Supreme Court docket justices being sworn into workplace with footage of Nazis saluting Adolf Hitler. In 2017, she addressed the Unite the Proper white supremacist and neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va., in an Instagram put up, writing, “It is unimaginable to look at neo-Nazis march in 2017, whereas I, a Jewish lady, headline a present in Berlin the place these tunnels have been constructed by him, constructed curvy so he could not be shot within the again.”
This 12 months marks the third consecutive installment of Grohl’s Hanukkah Periods, which he launched in 2020 with collaborator Kurstin. It is also the primary 12 months he carried out the seasonal covers in entrance of a dwell viewers, with proceeds from the present proceeds benefitting the Anti-Defamation League. Different visitors on the Largo present included Beck, Tenacious D, Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O, Kurstin’s Hen and the Bee associate Inara George and Grohl’s daughter Violet.
“Get the Celebration Began” is the second installment of the 2022 Hanukkah Periods, following a canopy of Blood, Sweat & Tears’ “Spinning Wheel” that includes Judd Apatow.
Grohl, who isn’t Jewish, stated that doing the Hanukkah Periods with Kurstin, who’s Jewish, helped him acquire a better appreciation for the vacation and the worth of spreading pleasure. “This venture, which initially started as a foolish thought, grew to characterize one thing rather more necessary to me,” he stated on the finish of 2020’s Hanukkah Periods. “It confirmed me that the easy gesture of spreading pleasure and happiness goes a good distance, and as we glance ahead, we must always all make an effort to take action, irrespective of what number of candles are left to gentle on the menorah.”
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