That seems pretty normal, right? Nothing to get obsessed over. Though the song and elevator scene appear separately in the film (as seen below in the original clip), fans, remixers, and I agree that they fit perfectly together. Yet, that scene (and song) still pops up in meme videos all over the internet today. After Black’s incorrect answer (it’s obviously “Drift King”), the elevator they’re riding in dings and the doors open to the wonderful world of drift racing – and the Teriyaki Boyz. “You know what DK stands for?” Bow Wow responds. “Can he drive?” Black twangs out in his most corn-fed accent. Twinkie (Bow Wow) introduces Sean (Lucas Black) to the world of Tokyo street racing. How do you think a couple of street racers basically evolved into an intelligence organization rivalling that run in the Mission: Impossible films? If the lyrics themselves didn’t explain the situation for us, the scene it’s often juxtaposed with in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift solves that problem. These Americans in Dom’s crew don’t know anything about the world. The chorus is an embodiment of the F&F characters and their simple yet progressive view of world culture: It’s got a different breed of simple joy, a J-Pop pleasure that radiates from the rappers as they switch between Japanese and English. This and its catchiness are the only things shared by the song and the series’ usually Pitbull-packed soundtracks. The instantly recognizable electronic steel drums and breathy beats drive a song with endearingly on-the-nose lyrics. Yes, I mean Teriyaki Boyz’s “Tokyo Drift” from a film whose name I bet you can guess.
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However, despite that song’s ability to reduce even the most hardened Toretto into a blubbering Roman when the road divides down two irreconcilable paths, I’d argue that the most important song of the series is the one that’s had the most longevity online. Furious 7 slightly eschewed tradition with its all-American tearjerker hit “See You Again,” but as a tribute to the late Paul Walker, its roots are part of its respectful appeal. That is, a pop song performed by a Colombian and two Cubans, a delicious continuation of multicultural musical tradition for the series. The latest, The Fate of the Furious, opens in Havana, Cuba to the song “Hey Ma” by J Balvin and Pitbull (featuring singer Camila Cabello). The soundtracks of the Fast and Furious movies (or however you’d like to denote the inconsistently-named series) are second in importance only to the stunts. Can he drive… a franchise to a greater and greater embrace of multiculturalism?
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