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Dolly Parton and Doja Cat will star in a TikTok musical about Taco Bell’s Mexican Pizza
That sentence might have been generated by AI that was fed an inventory of buzzwords, however no! “Mexican Pizza: The Musical” is actual, a quick meals ode to the Taco Bell menu merchandise that can return to shops this month, and it’ll air reside on TikTok on Might 26.
It began when Doja Cat shared a “contractual” rap for the chain, with a foolish trumpeted beat and Taco Bell’s titular chime, about Mexican Pizza, which was taken off Taco Bell’s menu in 2020.
“I’ll finish you when you ever dare to go discontinued,” she rapped halfheartedly in her ironic jingle. “This ain’t even Mexican meals.”
TikTok comic Victor Kunda took her jingle and ran with it, parodying what an intense rehearsal for an expert manufacturing of “Mexican Pizza: The Musical by Doja Cat” may appear to be. The ensuing musical was impressed by each TikToks, Leisure Weekly reported, and Kunda will seem together with different yet-to-be-named particular company.
Penned by screenwriter Hannah Friedman with Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, the duo who gained a Grammy for his or her first TikTok manufacturing, “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical,” the upcoming present’s plot stays unknown. Barlow and Bear did tease a snippet of their rating, although, with lyrics like, “You took a slice proper out of my coronary heart.”
“We sat down and composed a musical for Mexican Pizza,” Barlow stated on TikTok, debunking rumors that this digital efficiency was a joke. “And each tune is a banger, if I do say so myself.”
Particulars on Parton’s position within the musical are additionally scarce — a cameo? A number one position? The fairy más-mother of Taco Bell acolytes? She introduced her involvement with an Instagram publish of a “private and confidential” script.
Over the past yr, Taco Bell has tapped artists of the second — Doja Cat, Lil Nas X and, now, the eternally standard Parton — to hawk its Chalupa Supremes and Tacky Gordita Crunches to the youths. The nation chanteuse feels inescapable lately, lending her likeness to sponsored content material like a middling Tremendous Bowl advert for T-Cell and NFTs themed to her new guide with James Patterson, “Run, Rose, Run.”
Parton’s had simply as momentous a month because the Mexican Pizza: She was named a member of the 2022 Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction class, together with Eminem, Lionel Richie, the Eurythmics and extra.