The song has been covered by US pop band Jonas Brothers, with whom Busted recorded another version for their 2023 compilation album, Greatest Hits 2.0.
They look out of a window to the backyard and find their neighbour Peter, played by James Bourne's brother Chris,[9] standing next to a Vauxhall Viva customised like the DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future.
They sneak in, lock their older selves inside a green room and jump onto the stage, where the song continues in front of an audience.
At the closing of the song, the setting switches back and forth from the concert to the bedroom from the video's intro, and ends with Busted jumping into their logo.
The original Busted version features in the 2015 season 26 episode Mathlete's Feat of the US animated sitcom The Simpsons.
Since the song would be played on Radio Disney, all the sexually-suggestive lyrics were simplified – the line "and your great-great-great granddaughter is pretty fine" is changed to "doin' fine" and "Triple-breasted women swim around town, totally naked" is changed to "girls there, with round hair like Star Wars, float above the floor.
[40] The music video for the Jonas Brothers' cover was directed by Andrew Bennett and produced by Justin Cronkite, visual effects were designed by Trance.
where they take their instruments: Nick and Kevin pick guitars, and Joe first plays the keyboard, then uses a microphone.
He starts singing while the video's story side views him noticing a flash of light next door.
[42] In November 2016, in an interview with PopBuzz, Busted were asked what they thought of the Jonas Brothers' cover of the song.
"[43] On 10 June 2019, Busted and the Jonas Brothers performed the song together live at Capital FM's Summertime Ball at Wembley Stadium.
[44] On 28 July 2023, Busted and the Jonas Brothers released a collaborative version of the song, titled "Year 3000 2.0".
[50] On July 27, 2023, a lyric video for the song was uploaded to Busted's YouTube channel, featuring clips from both bands amidst the lyrics "with newly filmed black and white shots and graphics which were intercut with footage of both bands from their original music videos".