The Pokémon Soundtrack (3 Tune Tuesday)
This first song holds a very special place in my heart...
Every now and then, during most recent years, I will randomly get this song stuck in my head: Don't Say You Love Me by M2M... For context, this song is almost 25-years-old. I first heard it when I was 5-years-old, and the North American release of the very first Pokémon Movie had dropped back in 2000!
(Source: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0190641/ )
If you know, you know; this movie was -- still is! -- a banger. The soundtrack is as well, buuut we did things a little bit differently back in the 90s. What I mean by that, is the soundtrack often had nothing to do with the movie. For example, this song about a guy trying to move to Fourth Base™ too quickly was used as a promotional song... for the Pokémon Movie. Children were singing, "You're moving too fast, I'm not ready yet"... from a movie about Pokémon! Looking back on it now, shit's hilarious! 😂
But aside from that, whatta culture shock I received while listening to this song... To think, western music went from "Please respect me and give me time," to "This pu💰💰y so good, let's frig, look at my b👀bies!" It was definitely a simpler time; I yearn to go back to those values...
(The comments on the video are great as well, where, speaking of, I happened to find out that M2M is having a reunion after 20 years?! 😱)
Anyway, the Pokémon soundtrack became this week's inspiration for 3 Tune Tuesday. Here are 2 other songs from the movie that are great!
Vacation by Vitamin C is another song that I loved during that time... Even listening to it today, I still get goosebumps on my arms! 🥶 It's a perfect beach song, with the cowabunga guitar playing. There are also samples used in this song -- one at the very beginning and one after the first chorus -- but even after all of these years I have no idea what the songs are. But I can still picture Pikachu and friends happily walking together while this song played over the opening credits...
(Also, Fun Fact: Vitamin C is the group that is responsible for the song Graduation, a timeless classic that I'm sure many of us are familiar with! 😅)
And, of course I could not make a Pokémon tracklist without including Brother, My Brother by Blessid Union Of Souls. I don't know about all of you, but when you're a young child watching Pokémon fight their clones to the death, along with Pikachu having an emotional breakdown over Ash being immobilized into stone, it kinda leaves you traumatized! 😅 For that reason, I can vividly remember the song playing in the background. A song with a timeless message, and one that we still have not learned...
That will do it for today's post! 🙏 I appreciate you taking the time to read and I hope these songs brought back some memories for you 😊 Enjoy your week, everyone!
(Image created using an AI art generator on Night Cafe)
Ohh M2M! this was one of my favorite bands back then. My favorite song of theirs was Mirror Mirror. Thanks for reminding me of them! 💕
Truly, I was surprised to learn that they are a Norwegian group! If they make a comeback, that would be awesome 😄
Thank you for reading and commenting! Enjoy your week 🙏
I have no idea why I'm seeing pokemon everywhere,is there like a revolution going on or something?😂
I had so much fun listening to these, brought me back to my childhood. Thankyou for sharing.
Unfortunately I cannot say -- the last Pokémon game I played was over a decade ago 😭 I've been very out of the loop since then! But I will say, the universe shows us signs when something is on the way...
Thank you for your comment, I'm happy that you enjoyed the songs 😄 please enjoy your week!
I hope it's a good something that's on tje way. The universe has been throwing a lot Ls my way recently,sigh.
And thankyou for replying, I'm happy I enjoyed them🤓. Still grateful I saw your post