This song is called "Africa." Eh? Ehhhhh?įrancis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now" opens and closes with the Jim Morrison crooning about insane children and snakes in this psychedelic opus, and given that the film itself involved a highly decorated American soldier going rogue and forming his own society deep in the jungle, I think it's earned its spot on this list. You see, part of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain takes place in Africa.
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The record is full of politically-charged ballads, touching on post-war America, but with a chorus about starting fires and being a gun for hire, "Dancing in the Dark" in particular fits The Phantom Pain's themes. Bruce Springsteen, a man with a penchant for bandanas who was famously nicknamed "The Boss" released his hit album "Born in the U.S.A." in 1984. While it remains to be seen if Snake will don a white linen suit and some Wayfarers, putting this moody track in the game would be a nice nod to the groundbreaking crime series, which famously played the song in its premiere episode.
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A good chunk of the style that people associate with the eighties was exemplified by the television series Miami Vice, which premiered in 1984.
Back in the original Metal Gear Solid, Otacon asked Snake if he believed love could bloom on the battlefield, but back around when The Phantom Pain takes place, Pat Benatar was dominating the airwaves with this torch song. It's no secret Kojima is a Tarantino fan, and the lyrics about putting out fire with gasoline seem appropriate for Metal Gear's various explosive moments. Aside from the fact that Revolver Ocelot is a metaphorical cat-person, this song was recently used in Inglourious Basterds. I mean, Big Boss's troops are called Diamond Dogs. Big Boss has his fair share of tragic memories that should stay buried, and on top of that, blood diamonds seem to play a role in the game. Diamonds & Rust is a song Joan Baez supposedly wrote about her old flame, Bob Dylan, and how nostalgia is a bittersweet thing. You know who else is seen as a villain because of his politics? Big Boss.
The song was written for the soundtrack to the film Sacco & Vanzetti, which told the true story of a pair of Italian immigrants who were wrongfully accused of arson and subsequently sentenced to death, though it's suspected they were targeted based their political views. government's Les Enfants Terribles program - which is, after all, French for "the terrible children." This song showed up in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes already, and a cover of it played during the credits for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots. It's hard to tell if there are any deeper meanings to the bubblegum lyrics, but if you want to work in some Metal Gear symbolism, you could argue that kids in America are the clones of Big Boss created by the U.S. In spite of its catchy tune, there's always been something somber about Kim Wilde's pop ditty. Between my love of Metal Gear and music from the seventies and eighties, this seemed like the perfect chance to compile a Phantom Playlist - which you can hear for yourself on YouTube or Spotify. It would stand to reason that one licensed song in a massive open-world video game might suggest more licensed music, and, given that The Phantom Pain is set in 1984, that the music would be from the same time period. Lang tweeted out that he'd come across a boombox in the game that was playing Kim Wilde's new wave pop hit "Kids in America." During this time, AP Entertainment writer Derrik J. Impressions from the bulk of Konami's recent two day preview event for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain are still under tight embargo, but members of the press were allowed to tease some of their thoughts about the first hour of game on social media.
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