Musical Montage: Michael Jackson “You Rock My World”
Joined by Chris Tucker, Michael Jackson pursues a girl who happens to be under the thrall of gangster Marlon Brando in the music video/short film for the song “You Rock My World”, which was the lead single off of Jackson’s tenth and final album, Invincible.
Musical Montage: Tag Team “Pig Power in the House”
Although far inferior in pretty much every way to Babe, 1994’s Gordy did have one thing over George Miller’s classic and that was a ridiculous hip-hop theme song from none other than Tag Team, “Pig Power in the House”, which got an official tie-in music video.
Musical Montage: Timbaland & Magoo “Clock Strikes”
Featuring a beat sampled from Knight Rider, Timbaland & Magoo’s third single from their debut album, “Clock Strikes”, also channeled From Dusk Till Dawn in the music video as the rap duo kidnaps a family in their RV and ends up at a club full of vampires.
Musical Montage: Transformers
While the original Transformers animated movie looked to folks like Stan Bush and Weird Al, the series started by Michael Bay in 2007 featured the likes of Linkin Park, Paramore, The Goo Goo Dolls, Imagine Dragons, Hatebreed, and, most recently, Hailee Steinfeld.
Musical Montage: Vin Diesel “Feel Like I Do”
One of the things that separate the character of Dominic Toretto from the real-life Vin Diesel is that Dom probably wouldn’t have created and performed an electronic/dance song but that’s exactly what Vin did last year when he put out “Feel Like I Do”.
Musical Montage: Bryan Ferry “Kiss and Tell”
Bryan Ferry contributed “Kiss and Tell” to the soundtrack for 1988’s Bright Lights, Big City, which featured a darker and more serious turn for Michael J Fox as he played a fact-checker at a big magazine in New York City that spirals into drug and alcohol abuse after a number of personal and professional setbacks, including the death of his mother to cancer.
Musical Montage: UB40 “Can’t Help Falling in Love”
For Speed 2: Cruise Control, director Jan De Bont wanted the soundtrack full of reggae and Caribbean inspired music to go along with the tropical cruise setting of the movie, which included UK reggae group UB40 performing a cover of Elvis’ “Can’t Help Falling in Love”, which became one of the biggest hits of 1997.
Musical Montage: Wheatus “Teenage Dirtbag”
Featured in Amy Heckerling’s 2000 teen comedy Loser, “Teenage Dirtbag” by Wheatus had the movie’s co-stars Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari co-star in the music video.
Musical Montage: Live “Forever May Not Be Long Enough”
“I Stand Alone” is easily the best-remembered soundtrack song from The Mummy franchise but the movie that spawned The Scorpion King, The Mummy Returns, also had a soundtrack song from the alt-rock band Live, “Forever May Not Be Long Enough”, which played over the movie’s end credits.
Musical Montage: Rick Springfield “Love Somebody”
Rick Springfield starred in and performed almost all the songs from 1984’s Hard to Hold, where he played rock star James “Jamie” Roberts. “Love Somebody” was the first single off the soundtrack album and was a big hit, reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Musical Montage: Smash Mouth “Holiday in My Head”
The first single off of Smash Mouth’s third album in 2001, “Holiday in My Head” was also featured in the 2002 Nickelodeon movie Clockstoppers with a movie-themed where the band finds themselves in locations from the movie and getting messed with via the movie’s sci-fi “Hypertime” watch.