Stupid things to do with "Wish I Had An Angel"

[davidn]

Just a few years ago, nobody knew what power metal was at all apart from a few people in Europe (and if one more person asks if I listen to Rammstein when I mention that most of my music comes from Germany I'm going to throttle them). But certain little subsections of it have crept into popularity, and it's now likely that a lot of people will have heard of bands like Sonata Arctica, Dragonforce and Nightwish.

The trouble with becoming popular is that your increasingly rabid fanbase can give you a bad reputation as a whole (e.g. Nobuo Uematsu, most Squaresoft games). A practice among particularly manic listeners that's become fairly common thanks to Youtube is making "anime(/animated) music videos" of films or games set to music. Sometimes they can fit - one of the most overdone is Kingdom Hearts to Sonata Arctica's 'Kingdom for a Heart' due to the quite unbelievable appropriateness of the title, but usually it doesn't matter how stretched or non-existent the link is between them.

As Nightwish's "Wish I Had An Angel" is what I'd hazard as one of the most popular songs in the entire genre - possibly because it combines harsh and smooth vocals as well as a power metal sound and an almost Europop-like beat - it's now been attached to a variety of unlikely things. Such as:

• Alone in the Dark (I should probably point out that this is actually the official one, but it easily qualifies as a stupid thing due to being written by Uwe Boll)


• Final Fantasy VII


• Brother Bear


• Doom (the film)


• Final Fantasy VIII


• The Sims


• Sailor Moon


• Dragonball Z


• Final Fantasy IX


• The Lion King


• Harry Potter


• Final Fantasy X


• Final Fantasy X-2


• Starlight Express


• Rammstein


• Kingdom Hearts again


• An entire tribute to Tails or Miles or whatever his name is now


• Just put up to double speed


• Lip-syncing it through your silly hair


• And an entirely nonsensical custom-made 3D rendered film!

Oh, and as I mentioned KH AMVs before, putting it to Modern Talking's 'Witchqueen of Eldorado' has to have a mention. That one's going to be difficult to beat.

Comments

[kjorteo]

Oh, and as I mentioned KH AMVs before, putting it to Modern Talking's 'Witchqueen of Eldorado' has to have a mention. That one's going to be difficult to beat.

How about Angra's [cover of Kate Bush's] 'Wuthering Heights?'

[davidn]

Well, I can't say I was expecting that - either the choice of cover or the subject of the video (though I imagine I could equally do one of these lists for 'stupid songs to set to Kingdom Hearts'). That's quite incredible.

[kjorteo]

I can concede that that's a slightly unusual choice in cover, but shame on you for not expecting the subject of the video. I'm pretty sure the second or third rule of YouTube is that for every single song that has ever been made and about seven that haven't, someone has set Kingdom Hearts to it.