Imagine (Gal Gadot video)
On March 18, 2020, Gal Gadot published a video on Instagram of her, and a supergroup of celebrity friends, performing a version of the song "Imagine" by John Lennon, which intended to raise morale during the COVID-19 pandemic. Origins. Gadot organized the video with help from Kristen Wiig. "Kristen is like the mayor of Hollywood," Gadot told "Vanity Fair". "Everyone loves her, and she brought a bunch of people to the game. But yeah, I started it, and I can only say that I meant to do something good and pure..." "The pandemic was in Europe  and Israel before it came here (to the United States) in the same way. I was seeing where everything was headed." So she told Wiig, "Listen, I want to do this thing." "Hey guys, Day 6 in self-quarantine, and I gotta say the past few days got me feeling a bit philosophical," Gadot explains in the video's introduction. "You know this virus has affected the entire world, everyone. Doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from, we’re all in this together." Gadot said she was inspired to make the video after seeing a man  from Italy play "Imagine" on his saxophone from his balcony. "I ran into this video of this Italian guy playing the trumpet in his balcony to all the other people who were locked inside their homes. and he was playing "Imagine", and there was something so powerful and pure about this video..." Reception and parodies. The video received backlash with critics dismissing it as an ineffective response to the pandemic; Jon Caramanica of "The New York Times" called it "an empty and profoundly awkward gesture". Gadot later acknowledged the video did not garner the positive reaction that had been intended , but was unapologetic in explaining the thinking behind it. Gadot acknowledged the video ended up being in "poor taste", but still maintained that it was made with "pure intentions." The video was parodied by comedian Zack Fox, whose version was based on the song "Slob on My Nob" by Tear Da Club Up Thugs. Fox's version featured appearances from Eric André, Thundercat, 6lack, Quinta Brunson, Langston Kerman and Chuck Inglish, among others. Experimental musician Lingua Ignota also remixed the audio of Gadot's version in noise music style.