Chip ’N Dale: Rescue Rangers debuted on Disney+ yesterday (May 20), and with it came a remix of the titular series’ classic theme song, courtesy of Post Malone.Malone keeps intact much of the original version’s lyrics and core melody, but spins it through his signature trap-influenced pop style.It marks his third time contributing to a Hollywood soundtrack – in 2017, he linked up with Watt for the xXx: Return Of Xander Cage inclusion ‘Burning Man’, and in 2019, had his ‘Hollywood’s Bleeding’ cut ‘Sunflower’ (a collab with Swae Lee) featured prominently in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
Malone also had a cameo role in the latter film.Have a look at the lyric video for Post Malone’s Chip ’N Dale: Rescue Rangers theme song below, then check out the original:Directed by Akiva Schaffer of The Lonely Island, Chip ’N Dale: Rescue Rangers stars John Mulaney and Andy Samberg (who is also Schaffer’s bandmate in TLI) as the titular chipmunk duo.
It’s an ultra-meta take on the animated series from the 1980s, with its cast rounded out by the likes of Will Arnett, Eric Bana, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, J.K.
Simmons and KiKi Layne.Per a synopsis for the film, it sees Chip and Dale “living amongst cartoons and humans in modern-day Los Angeles”.
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