“To the windows,” croons Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire chief executive of Meta, “to the walls.”
From surfing in a tuxedo to being the subject of an A.I.-enhanced glow-up, Mr. Zuckerberg has already had quite a year on the internet. His string of odd, yet captivating moments continued on Wednesday when he celebrated the anniversary of meeting his wife, Priscilla Chan, by releasing a version of the Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz song “Get Low,” which he had rewritten and performed with the singer T-Pain (who was not involved in the original recording of the song).
After having teased the collaboration in recent days, Mr. Zuckerberg shared an Instagram post that starts with a photo of himself and Ms. Chan in their younger years.
“‘Get Low’ was playing when I first met Priscilla at a college party, so every year we listen to it on our dating anniversary,” he said in the caption. “This year I worked with @tpain on our own version of this lyrical masterpiece.”
Among the thousands of replies that flowed in was one from T-Pain. “Happy anniversary! Thanks for letting me be a part of this,” read his message, which was punctuated with a flame emoji. Ms. Chan replied as well: “Can’t get quite as low anymore but more in love and grateful for that love than ever. Love you MZ.”
The post also included a photo of lyrics, an album cover in which T-Pain and Mr. Zuckerberg are both holding up acoustic guitars, multiple photos of them in the studio and one photo of them on bikes.
The indulgence of the moment was punctuated by Mr. Zuckerberg noting that the track they had recorded is available for streaming as well. On Spotify, the duo went with a mash-up name, releasing the song as Z-Pain.
Mr. Zuckerberg, who has seemingly been working to shed his image as the guy in the hoodie — a persona cemented for many by the movie “The Social Network” — has previously posted about his friendship with T-Pain. A video Mr. Zuckerberg shared on Instagram in July showed him admiring a gift from T-Pain: a chain necklace that Mr. Zuckerberg described as “a vibe.”
Their song joins Mr. Zuckerberg’s surfing video and a statue he commissioned of his wife as some of the more outlandish moments of his recent past. Such instances have positioned him as a more lighthearted and apolitical answer to Elon Musk, the owner of X, who has become a close ally of President-elect Donald J. Trump — even if Mr. Zuckerberg has also courted Mr. Trump’s favor recently.
A “cage match” between the tech executives never came to pass, but the opportunity is now there for Mr. Musk to try to best his rival by finding another early 2000s song to cover in hopes of outdoing Z-Pain’s auto-tuned masterpiece.
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