Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping: The Lonely Island post deleted mockumentary song ‘F*ck Off’
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Your support makes all the difference.The Lonely Island are releasing a mockumentary sending up politically and socially conscious popstars and their contrived, Instagram-ready personas this summer, and today they posted a deleted scene from it.
It centres around one of protagonist conner4real’s (Andy Samberg) live performances of hit track ‘Fuck Off’, an expletive-laden rant at authority figures, threatening violence and ending with a brilliantly contradictory “Be good to each other!” and peace sign.
It also sends up youth entitlement and the way older people are increasingly seen as irrelevant, Samberg singing:
‘Coz we are the kids of the USA / We think for ourselves to get the fuck out our way / And all you adults can choke on shit / We hope you suffocate on a dog’s dick’.
The song, which has unfinished FX and SOUND as it didn't make the final cut, is also horrendously catchy.
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping has a pretty bananas list of cameos, which includes: Emma Stone, Justin Timberlake, Joanna Newsom, Weird Al, Will Arnett, A$AP Rocky, Adam Levine, Akon, Arcade Fire, DJ Khaled, Mariah Carey, Nas, Pharrell Williams, Pink, RZA, Simon Cowell, Snoop Dogg, Usher and 50 Cent.
The film opens in UK cinemas on 26 August.
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