“Baja, baja, baja, baja!”
Seal reworked into an precise Seal for his new Tremendous Bowl 2025 business for Mountain Dew — and it’s laborious to look away. The musician, 61, even belts out a brand new rendition of his 1994 hit track “Kiss From a Rose” for the advert.
The business opens with Mountain Dew’s Mountain Dude providing singer Becky G the corporate’s Baja Blast flavored drink.
After accepting and taking a sip, Seal’s transported to the ocean, touchdown in a ship pushed by Mountain Dude.
“Refreshing,” Becky G, 27, tells Mountain Dude.
“It’s kissed by the right quantity of tropical lime,” he replies.
The scene then pans to a number of seals on a rock formation singing the start of what viewers would possibly assume is “Kiss From a Rose.”
On the high of the rock formation, Seal is revealed, however not as his regular self. As an alternative, Seal has been reworked into, nicely, an precise seal.
“Child, I examine it to a kiss from a lime, on the bay,” Seal sings dramatically, altering just a few lyrics from his hit track. “Ohh, the extra I give it some thought, it’s unusual I’m a seal yeah.”
Seal then explains that he can’t maintain a Mountain Dew bottle as a result of it “slips proper on by way of” his flippers.
Dramatically, everybody, together with the seals, cease to stare as two sharks swim round them.
After a beat, Seal croons: “There’s a lot a seal can inform you, a lot he can say. Dew stays my energy, my pleasure, my flame.”
Seal informed At this time.com that he thought it was a bit cliche however humorous when he noticed his physique edited to a seal for the primary time.
“I did need to snort as a result of it was completed in, sort of in good humor. … There are elements and elements of my life which are actually critical, that require focus and accountability and accountability,” he informed the outlet.
“And so, anytime I get an opportunity to snort and make enjoyable of myself with a meme that was with my head on a seal, I imply, it’s hilarious and it’s antidote of reduction to the seriousness of life.”
Seal feels “actually lucky” that his track nonetheless resonates with followers right now.
“I’m a child from a working-class space of London born within the ’60s with nothing however a variety of goals and a voice,” he stated. “And so, in the event you’d have informed me I might have one track, only one track that might make such a distinction and transform an iconic track that most individuals around the globe know, nicely … it’s wonderful. I don’t take one bit as a right.”
The business ends with Seal, now again to his unique self, saying, “Good trying seal,” as he sits on the boat with a Mountain Dew in his hand.
The business will air in the course of the Tremendous Bowl 59 recreation between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs at New Orleans Caesars Superdome on Sunday, Feb. 9.