Blondie Reacts To The Boys Season 3's Soldier Boy Cover Song
American new wave band Blondie has responded to a video of Soldier Boy from The Boys doing a cover of their song «Rapture.» Soldier Boy is The Boys' take on Captain America, an unaging, ultra-conservative supersoldier rolled out by Vought in WWII to fight the Nazis, but who disappeared mysteriously after a botched CIA mission in Nicaragua in the 80s. The Supe has a deeper connection to one of The Boys' own, Mother's Milk. MM's father was a lawyer who worked himself to death fighting Vought after Soldier Boy killed members of his family that got in the crossfire as he apprehended a car thief. Now, MM has inherited his father's sense of obsessive justice.
The opening of season 3 episode 4, «Glorious Five Year Plan,» sees MM flashing back to his childhood and his father angrily watching a clip of Soldier Boy on Solid Gold, a very real musical variety show that aired on television from 1980 to 1988. In the clip, Soldier Boy (played by Jensen Ackles), is performing a stilted rendition of Blondie's song «Rapture.» It was the first rap song to ever broadcast on MTV and it fittingly has some superhero-adjacent lyrics about a «man from Mars,» as well as some apocalyptic imagery, which feeds right into The Boys' ethos and could foreshadow what kinds of damage the Supe could inflict in the show's future. Blondie was formed in 1974 by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. The band also incorporates elements of disco, funk, rock, and synthwave in their sound and they're touring still to this day.
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The Boys Twitter account released a full version of the clip not seen in the episode, and it looks to have caught Blondie singer Harry's eye. Harry responded from the
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