Mortal Combat Theme, Acapella
June 19, 2018 10:52 PM Subscribe
It's literally the first thing you hear him say in the first 2 seconds of the video.
posted by straight at 2:50 AM on June 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by straight at 2:50 AM on June 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
> straight:
"It's literally the first thing you hear him say in the first 2 seconds of the video."
Sorry. It was so quiet and laid back I didn't hear it while I was adjusting volume.
posted by Samizdata at 3:07 AM on June 20, 2018
"It's literally the first thing you hear him say in the first 2 seconds of the video."
Sorry. It was so quiet and laid back I didn't hear it while I was adjusting volume.
posted by Samizdata at 3:07 AM on June 20, 2018
That was utterly charming and delightful.
further evidence that I'm really out of touch with how kids are growing up today.
I actually had the opposite reaction! I was surprised and tickled how I connected with this. It took me back 20+ years ago when the arcade (!) game first came out, followed by the movie along with the ear worm single. I'm chuffed that Mortal Combat's still relevant to Kids These Days.
posted by like_neon at 3:26 AM on June 20, 2018 [2 favorites]
further evidence that I'm really out of touch with how kids are growing up today.
I actually had the opposite reaction! I was surprised and tickled how I connected with this. It took me back 20+ years ago when the arcade (!) game first came out, followed by the movie along with the ear worm single. I'm chuffed that Mortal Combat's still relevant to Kids These Days.
posted by like_neon at 3:26 AM on June 20, 2018 [2 favorites]
My day is made. :)
posted by phenylphenol at 4:52 AM on June 20, 2018
posted by phenylphenol at 4:52 AM on June 20, 2018
I had forgotten quite how much the (non-acapella) theme song sounded like one of the mega-cheezy mod tracks from Star Control 2...
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 5:00 AM on June 20, 2018
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 5:00 AM on June 20, 2018
I actually had the opposite reaction! I was surprised and tickled how I connected with this. It took me back 20+ years ago when the arcade (!) game first came out, followed by the movie along with the ear worm single.
It took me awhile to actually figure out what threw me about this, it isn't the kid geeking out on something he likes, that's charming and familiar enough, but the mix of seeming innocence of that with the, at least mild, sophistication involved in producing the video with its split screens and breakdown of the Mortal Kombat theme into parts, that it is Mortal Kombat he's singing about, and wonder about the overall worldview kids must have in sharing something like this to a worldwide audience that can even reach beyond their peer group.
It's the mix of familiar and radical difference that strikes me in how I was and saw the world at that age and how he might. It's without judgement that I find it all pretty staggering and have to wonder what it means or will lead to.
posted by gusottertrout at 5:16 AM on June 20, 2018 [3 favorites]
It took me awhile to actually figure out what threw me about this, it isn't the kid geeking out on something he likes, that's charming and familiar enough, but the mix of seeming innocence of that with the, at least mild, sophistication involved in producing the video with its split screens and breakdown of the Mortal Kombat theme into parts, that it is Mortal Kombat he's singing about, and wonder about the overall worldview kids must have in sharing something like this to a worldwide audience that can even reach beyond their peer group.
It's the mix of familiar and radical difference that strikes me in how I was and saw the world at that age and how he might. It's without judgement that I find it all pretty staggering and have to wonder what it means or will lead to.
posted by gusottertrout at 5:16 AM on June 20, 2018 [3 favorites]
Yeah, I sure wasn't singing any themes to video games from my dad's childhood when I was a kid. Here I thought the persistence of classic rock was weird...
posted by straight at 8:42 AM on June 20, 2018
posted by straight at 8:42 AM on June 20, 2018
Not bad, but I think my favorite Mortal Kombat acapella is still this Central Park rendition by UC Berkeley's DeCadence. Even with all the wind noise.
posted by radwolf76 at 4:19 PM on June 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by radwolf76 at 4:19 PM on June 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
Boys are good now.
posted by Going To Maine at 11:00 PM on June 20, 2018
posted by Going To Maine at 11:00 PM on June 20, 2018
The original film is on Netflix this month, if you need a refresher.
posted by halfbuckaroo at 4:56 PM on June 21, 2018
posted by halfbuckaroo at 4:56 PM on June 21, 2018
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