Megamind Scrubs "Welcome to the Jungle" Lyrics


Tangentially, one interesting thought Megamind raises is how movies like to make easy use of known pop and rock songs, but always frequently take care to work up creative bridge-to-bridge edits or other choral snippets, to get the emotive/cathartic "meat" of a tune while scrubbing any lyrics that are either potentially offensive or overwhelm/run counter to the moment being presented in the film. Megamind does this fairly liberally, since it works in two cuts of AC/DC and a healthy dose of Michael Jackson's "Bad," but the moment that most stood out to me was its sound mix tweak of Guns 'N Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle," which of course has a monstrous, get-pumped opening riff. The movie dips its complementary audio track and pumps up the dialogue mix at a couple key moments, making sure characters' lines cover the lyrics, "If you got the money, honey/We got your disease" and "I wanna watch you bleed."

 

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