Talking About the New Spider-Man Movie

Sorry for posting so often...but hey, isn’t that just what blogs are for? lol

Um, in the country where I live, unlike the credit songs used in many other countries, they use songs written specifically for the film by a popular Japanese band. I don’t mean to criticize the band or the song, but honestly, I’m not a big fan of that decision. It feels like they just crammed it in to appeal to the masses... Honestly, I feel like they could have just used the same song. Well, I guess people who aren’t even planning to watch the movie shouldn’t be complaining...

P.S.: After looking into it, it seems there are quite a few people who feel the same way. Well, that’s all. Honestly, this decision is about as ridiculous as making a sequel to "ZERO DAY(2003)" and then using Green Day’s “American Idiot” as the end-credits song for that sequel. Of course, depending on how you interpret it, it might make sense, but it just feels like this song’s style clearly doesn’t fit this movie.

P.S. (2): No one’s mentioned this yet, but I’ll say it before someone else does: I’m not really criticizing the song’s style. In fact, deliberately using a song that’s at odds with the context can sometimes work as irony (though, in the case of this Spider-Man scene, it’s not as intense as “American Idiot”—if anything, the song actually seems like a good fit when you look at it as a whole).

What I’m trying to say is that what bothers me is that “it looks like this was forced in just to appeal to a general audience.” After all, Green Day is a pretty famous band, and honestly, they’re the kind of artist every punk fan comes across at least once, right? (I’m not very familiar with genre definitions, so I apologize if I’m wrong. But it’s certainly true that they’re famous enough, have a large fan base, and are popular even among the general public—enough that fans of a specific genre are bound to encounter them at some point.) Well, that’s basically it.

While writing this update, I kept feeling like there was a contradiction somewhere, but if there really is one, I apologize.

P.S. (3): Things have gotten a little messy, so I’m going to start over from the beginning based on my current thoughts.

To be frank, what I hate most is “the painfully obvious ulterior motive of production companies that try to forcefully cast artists popular with the general public just to sell a movie.” The example I cited in my first P.S.—the pairing of *ZERO DAY* and *American Idiot*—is a perfect illustration of this. The lyrics fit the film’s message perfectly, and while the song’s vibe is more intense than that of “brand new,” the track in question here, it actually works quite well as irony. However, the key point is that *American Idiot* was produced by Green Day. For example, if Benji Cossa—who actually composed the end-credits song for *ZERO DAY*—had written a punk rock song where the style served as irony and the lyrics aligned with the film’s theme, and Ben Coccio had adopted it, people would likely just say, “I guess they were going for irony.” But with Green Day, the situation is different. Frankly speaking, Green Day is a big name. They’re famous, have a massive fan base, and are widely known even among the general public. If you cast an artist like that, it’s only natural that their fans and people drawn to their music will come to see the movie, and as a result, the movie will be a hit. Well, that’s just how it is.