The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a massive box office hit, but it’s also a viral sensation thanks to Bowser’s song “Peaches” as sung by Jack Black. The internet loves the song already, but now it seems that people are loving it even more as fans are wondering if “Peaches” was basically just Jack Black RickRolling us all.
The theory starts with YouTuber Charles Cornell who published a video recently where he analyzed “Peaches” musically, and basically argued that while the song is hilarious, it’s actually far more interesting from a music theory perspective than many might expect. However, Kotaku watched the full video and listened to the music as Cornell was playing, noticed the key of the song and the chord progression made “Peaches” sound an awful lot like Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
