Dominic Fike has covered Primus’ theme song to South Park on Australian radio station Triple J – watch below.
The Florida singer-songwriter became the latest artist to take part in the channel’s ‘Like A Version’ series in which musicians play live cover versions of other artists’ material.
He appeared on Friday (January 9) and played the shortest ever ‘Like A Version’ entry, with his version of the familiar theme clocking in at just 26 seconds. Fike explained that he has always admired the “adventure aspect” of South Park.
“It feels optimistic when the episode starts,” he explained. “And it’s funny throughout, which is how I prefer life, and then it ends abruptly and Primus starts.”
Fike also played Cody ChesnuTT’s 2002 song ‘Boylife In America’ during the session, which he said “sounds like a song I would’ve wrote”, as well as his own ‘Epilogue’, from his 2025 mixtape ‘Rocket’.
Watch all three performances here:
Primus created the South Park theme in 1997, and they were also one of the bands to play as part of the show’s 25th anniversary concerts in 2022 at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre. South Park co-creator played drums with Primus there, as he also did in Los Angeles last August for a King Crimson cover.
Fike has a history of covering other alternative artists, including the time that he joined Weezer for a version of their hit ‘Say It Ain’t So’ at an anniversary show in 2024.
His last studio album was 2023’s ‘Sunburn’, which NME awarded three stars and said: “But it’s not just the chaotic liberation of the Sunshine State the 14 tracks revel in, it’s the heartbreak, addiction and disarray that trailed behind his time there. ‘Sunburn’ still acts as a love letter to the place he was raised in, however, allowing Fike to return home not only to the relentless humid state but to himself.”
Fike also joined the Euphoria cast in the show’s second season, playing the drug-abusing teenager Elliot, a friend of Zendaya’s Rue. The third season is set to premiere in April.
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