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The song was literally never released. The only reason you would have heard it is if you were straight up watching porn from the 80s. That’s it. End of sentence, end of discussion.

I PROMISE you that you didn’t hear the song exclusively released on porn on the radio when you were a kid or in any other media that would have been significant to you. It literally could have never happened.

I am 99.9…% sure that people were just getting the songs “Promises, Promises” by Naked Eyes and “Material Girl” by Madonna, both incredibly popular and successful singles from the 80s, mixed together. If you’ve never listened to Promises, Promises, the songs sound very similar and one actually charted.

In America, Godzilla Minus One is generally preferred over Shin Godzilla, whereas in Japan it’s the opposite.

I think this is because the satirical edge of Shin Godzilla is lost on many American viewers. They read it as a straightforward action/disaster movie that happens to contain really good Godzilla scenes. You are supposed to genuinely laugh multiple times during the movie. A specific example near the beginning of the movie is when the PM and his cabinet are having a conference to try to figure out what kind of disaster they’re dealing with. The scene lasts like 3 minutes where they back and forth decide if it’s an underwater volcano, a geothermal vent, or a giant monster as seen in a viral video. They decide at the end that they need to just pick one or two things to focus on, choosing the vent or volcano, and then the PM goes “okay, now that we settled that, let’s all move to the large conference room so we can decide our next step.” The bureaucratic slog that most of the movie is buried in is just not as familiar political satire for most Americans who think of their government as ineffective for different reasons, namely individual stupidity/cruelty.

By contrast, Minus One was met with a common criticism in Japan, which is that it glorifies the Imperial Japanese military as noble, but misguided. And this, I cannot comment on. I do not personally feel that the movie, which basically states multiple times that “the government tried to control us to do awful things, but we can make the choice to do good and save our people,” is glorifying Imperial Japan, but I also do not live in Japan and I am not as sensitive to problematic themes in that culture. I think Minus One’s narrative as a whole is more-easily localized compared to Shin Godzilla, which is why Americans, who, again, are not as sensitive to problematic themes of Imperial Japan, present or not, are more likely to prefer it.