Earth (Lil Dicky song)
"Earth" is a charity single by Lil Dicky. It was released on April 19, 2019, three days before Earth Day, through Dirty Burd, Commission and BMG. The song features vocals from 30 artists. Background. On April 19, 2019, Dicky took to Twitter to announce the release of a new song the following week. It was also reported that Justin Bieber would return to music as a guest feature on a new Lil Dicky song. Bieber confirmed the collaboration on Twitter a few days later. Music video. On April 17, Dicky released a preview of the video  that was released the following day. Co-directed by Nigel Tierney of Emmy-winning studio RYOT (the studio that made "Behind the Fence VR"), Federico Heller of 3Dar (the studio that made "Uncanny Valley"), Oddbot Animation, and Iconic Engine, the music video includes performances by 30 celebrities and singer-songwriters, such as Sia, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Shawn Mendes, Halsey, Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brendon Urie, Charlie Puth, Snoop Dogg, Miley Cyrus, among others. Reception. The song received mostly negative reviews from critics. In a "Pitchfork" review, Jeremy D. Larson panned "Earth" as a "terrible song" that "sounds  less like a charity single and more like a theme to a downmarket Disney clone made explicitly to launder money for an offshore criminal enterprise". "Spin" magazine included the song in their list of the worst songs of 2019, calling it a qualitative step back to Dicky's 2018 single "Freaky Friday". Tech2 News Staff gave an overall mixed review on the song. Journalist Evan Haynos claimed the song "lands flat" and "The humor in the song ... misses the target." Music journalist Gregg Johnson gave the song a generally positive review. Writer Keith Mann heavily criticized the song, saying it  is "astonishingly bad" and "generic, soulless, laughless, [and] overblown". Vocalists. List of guest vocalists with the role each plays in the music video: