Demi Adejuyigbe’s September 21 2021 Video

Do you bear in mind? That the perfect day on the web is the twenty first of September? As has been custom relationship again lo these six years, comic Demi Adejuyigbe will lead us within the annual pagan custom of greeting the autumn equinox … by way of tune! Yearly, the Amber Ruffin Show author releases a video set to an more and more summary model of Earth, Wind & Fireplace’s “September” during which he celebrates the truth that, properly, “that’s at present.” These movies are an extended recreation, rising extra elaborate and spectacular yearly, with Adejuyigbe mastering an increasing number of devices to shoot confetti from and pulling off stunts involving a youngsters’s choir, a mariachi band, and sky writing.

Final yr, Adejuyigbe used his platform to provide followers an ultimatum: If he may increase $50,000 for choose social-justice and community-aid organizations, he would preserve making September 21 movies. Followers donated over $300,000. So final evening, on September 21’s Eve, Adejuyigbe launched a teaser during which he performs the refrain on violin and divulges that the precise video shall be out September 21 at 9:21 a.m. PST.

It was a pair minutes late because upload times, and since the video is eight minutes lengthy, nevertheless it’s right here! And never solely is it right here, however we’re questioning if we are able to get it a restricted theatrical run in Los Angeles so it could actually qualify for a Reside-Motion Quick Movie Oscar. We’re gonna want a Criterion Blu-ray launch and a making-of featurette. La La Land is fucking shaking. The video was shot on location at Willis Wonderland, the kitschtastic dwelling of the late Allee Willis, who wrote “September.” Showing within the credit are members of Earth, Wind & Fireplace, who congratulate Adejuyigbe on one other September remembered. The credit finish with a meta cameo from Amber Ruffin at Sunday evening’s Emmys speaking about how she loves these movies: “Is that this one?” she asks.

As he did final yr, Adejuyigbe makes use of the again half of the video to boost cash for a trigger, and this time, he’s doing so for Hurricane Ida aid in New Orleans, abortion entry in West Texas, and climate-change advocacy. For those who enter the $10 raffle and win, Adejuyigbe will hand-deliver a portray he made straight to you, wherever on the earth. He casually claims that this shall be his final of the September movies, and the flying-off-in-a-Grease-car actually implies finality, however Demi is nothing if not continuously stunning.