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As Thundercat wraps up his 2025 tour dates<\/a> this week, the Los Angeles-bred bassist drops off something pretty nifty: a cover of the 1980 Diana Ross hit \u201cUpside Down.\u201d <\/p>\n The occasion is the latest \u201cmusic season\u201d of Candy Crush Saga<\/em>, which\u2026 I guess this is a thing we\u2019re doing now. Non-sports video games having \u201cseasons\u201d is a little anxiety inducing and dystopian for me, but if these games publishers want to throw money at independent artists to create neat moments like this, more power to them. If one of the \u201cChildren Of The Baked Potato<\/a>\u201d gets additional exposure, that\u2019s a cherry on top. <\/p>\n When you\u2019ve got Fortnite<\/em> \u2014 which at least has the competitive element baked in \u2014 and NBA 2K<\/em> producing annual or semi-annual mixtapes<\/a> and digital music festivals<\/a>, then at least it gives artists somewhere to express their creativity. Not to mention, getting a bag (although it does seem to favor the biggest artists, who already get all the brand deals in the first place). <\/p>\n And, in this case, perhaps it\u2019ll funnel gamers toward a few of the classics, like Ross\u2019 original, which could get some of our legacy artists paid in the long run, too. In this case, there\u2019s also a colorful music video, which features a Thundercat stand-in getting a pedicure, exploring a haunted house, and engaging in a big dance number in the street \u2014 which, again, got a lot of people paid (director, videographer, actor, dancers, and digital artists, among others). So, there\u2019s at least a bright side of the capitalistic doomscape we\u2019ve all been trapped in. <\/p>\n You can watch the video for Thundercat\u2019s cover of Diana Ross\u2019 \u201cUpside Down\u201d for Candy Crush<\/em> above.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uproxx.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As Thundercat wraps up his 2025 tour dates this week, the Los Angeles-bred bassist drops off something pretty nifty: a cover of the 1980 Diana Ross hit \u201cUpside Down.\u201d The occasion is the latest \u201cmusic season\u201d of Candy Crush Saga, which\u2026 I guess this is a thing we\u2019re doing now. Non-sports video games having \u201cseasons\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2139751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[408098,309192,408097,23713,25292,21800,22192,26626,375772],"class_list":["post-2139750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-candy-crush","tag-diana-ross","tag-edge","tag-gaming","tag-home-page","tag-music","tag-music-videos","tag-new-music","tag-thundercat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thundercat-Covers-Diana-Ross-Upside-Down-For-Candy-Crush.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139752,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139750\/revisions\/2139752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2139751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}