The Boys Released Clip Of Jensen Ackles' Soldier Boy Singing Blondie Song

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The Amazon Prime hit The Boys has been releasing nostalgic callback videos that are designed like they're from the 1980s through Vought International's YouTube channel, the show's version of Disney. In their most recent iteration, they showed one of their heroes, Jensen Ackles' Soldier Boy, on an actual show from the 1980s.

The show in this case is Solid Gold, a popular show that ran throughout most of the '80s. In this segment, Soldier Boy, whose mysterious death on The Boys has now been proven to be a hoax, covers a popular '80s song titled «Rapture» by Blondie.

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While covering the rap portion of the song, Soldier Boy tries to keep up with the instrumental music, but frequently gets offbeat. Considering rap started gaining momentum as a music genre during that era, that also came with growing pains with artists who clearly couldn't rap, much like Soldier Boy can't in this clip. For those who may not have been around then, Solid Gold was a variety show that was on the air from 1980 to 1988. Various musicians were featured on the show. Usually, the ones that were popular at the time came on the show to capitalize on their popularity. What made Solid Gold stand out compared to other variety shows at that time was that it had background dancers to go with the songs. In fact, the people who are brought up in this clip were actual artists from that time period. Because The Boys took this route, it adds to the show's depiction that the supes existed back then just as much as they do now.

It also continues the show's brilliant choice to crossover superheroes with celebrity culture, in that they are so universally worshipped by the public that they'll make appearances on shows that they have