Minecraft says to hell with it, adds in-game version of Lava Chicken song, which you get by beating a chicken jockey

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I have heard this song too many times.

CHICKEN JOCKEY
(Image credit: Warner Bros)

All parents of Minecraft-obsessed children have learned a new song by heart this year. "LA-LA-LA-LAVA CHI-CHI-CHI-CHICKEN" booms Jack Black from the treacherous Alexa for the thirtieth time that day, and I quietly put my head in my hands and weep.

The 34-second earworm Lava Chicken is the shortest song ever to crack the Billboard top 100, and now it's been adapted into the game itself. Minecraft's 1.21.94 update adds the music disc Lava Chicken by Hyper Potions (spotted by Dexerto), a remixed version of the track that brings it in-line with the game's audio style.

Piglins attacking with ghasts

(Image credit: Warner Bros)

No doubt Jack Black is currently beavering away on the song's successor: A Minecraft Movie looks to be the most successful videogame movie ever made, and the Warner Bros. suits have already confirmed a sequel.

Not a little of that success can be put down to Lava Chicken and the chicken jockey moment, which became something of an IRL viral meme: when the scene was playing in cinemas, kids would just scream "chicken jockey" back at the screen. It got so raucous on some occasions that the cops had to be called, though the prize surely goes to the guy who brought an actual chicken to watch the movie.

Rich Stanton
Rich Stanton
Senior Editor

Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer. He is the author of a Brief History of Video Games, a full history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Review described as "[a] must-read for serious minded game historians and curious video game connoisseurs alike."

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