What's Up?

Remember Four Non-Blondes? Yeah.

And I think the track is called What's Up?

Yeah, What's Up.

Great track.

Weirdly, I heard it yesterday, it's like the theme tune almost of Street Fighter.

And then a big narrative, like, through-line song is that Ryu is, he loves the song from Four Non Blondes.

Yeah, What's Up.

What's Up.

I mean, and then it's like a big thing, a big thing in the movie that this is such an important song.

And then it's a song that didn't come out in 1990.

it's just but like this film doesn't like what disappoints me is actually kind of is bursting with creativity a lot of it yeah so unlike other adaptations where I think they're very cynical I think there was a lot of love for the franchise in here I agree I just think it's very similar to Matchbox and I can't believe we've watched both back to back now but it just it doesn't know where it's aiming who are you speaking to here? like all the 90s stuff and like all the MTV references and all that yeah there's nostalgia there but like that's just very I found it very confusing as someone who knows that era like the whole first 10 minutes I was flummoxed

by can I tell you something that threw me straight away from the very beginning and then we were already off to a bad start what? the movie uh makes uh i think great use of the song what's up by four really does yeah great use of it yeah and i and and so i really like great song choice blah blah blah but the movie opens with 1987 and they're listening to that track and and if you don't know the difference between diegetic and non-diegetic music um i i personally don't care non-diegetic is the characters can't hear it diegetic is the characters are listening to to this music with you I don't care.

I know you have a beef with, like, contemporary music used in period settings.

I don't care about that.

I looked this up just

now.

1992 was the release date for What's Up by Four Non Blondes.

They're listening to it in 1987.

Yeah.

And then, you know, Who Let the Dogs Out is an e- is an, like a walkout song.

I was gonna say-

That's true

...

I did notice a few of those songs were like 2000 maybe, 2000.

Right.

Like Who Let the Dogs Out, right?

Friend of the podcast, Linda Perry.

Oh, what's up? So

I did.

All right.

Is it Seven Bridges Road?

Yeah, I mean, that's like I've never seen that at karaoke in my life.

I feel like we've probably gone up, gone out on what's up before, though.

So maybe Seven Bridges Road Road it is.

Now, of course, Masters of the Universe has a very popular meme about That was also used in the movie, not the meme specifically, but the song.

And for those of you who don't know what song I'm talking about, I am talking about What's Up by Four Non-Blondes.

And when we see Ryu in the very beginning of the film preparing to fight in the first World Warrior Tournament...

He is listening to What's Up by Four Non-Blondes, which is funny that this song's just being used in another thing that Noah Centennial happens to be in.

But the fact that at near the end of the movie, after Ken has saved Ryu from being Dark Ryu with the flaming Hadouken, he then acapella sings the song to Ryu to bring him back to life, and Ryu comes out of his coma saying, what's going on? Now, the song, in fact, was used in the trailer.

I believe it was the first trailer for Street Fighter, which maybe should have flagged me with that this was happening, and I just, at that moment, really wasn't thinking about He-Man.