What Was The Song In South Park Season 25 Episode 4
Warning: Spoilers for South Park season 25, episode 4, “Back to the Cold War.”
While South Park’s “Back to the Cold War” featured a slew of 80’s hits, many fans are understandably curious about the song featured prominently in the episode’s conclusion. South Park didn’t pull any punches when it came to criticizing anyone who uses the Ukraine/Russia conflict as an excuse to engage in ‘80s nostalgia. In South Park season 25, episode 4, “Back to the Cold War,” Mr. Mackey’s desperation to return to the era of the original Top Gun romanticizing the military is depicted as a delusional, dangerous obsession—although it does add a lot of classic 80’s pop hits to the South Park episode’s soundtrack.
Early on, “The Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats plays as Markey puts the school through a hysterical nuclear safety drill, while Wang Chung’s “Dancehall Days” briefly plays as his 80’s-themes childhood bedroom is revealed. However, the most prominently featured song in South Park’s “Back to the Cold War” comes closer to the end of the episode. Like Peter Gabriel’s “Games Without Frontiers” (which can just about be heard in the episode’s opening act), thisSouth Park soundtrack cue is thematically appropriate for the episode it appears in.
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The song that plays during the extended scene of Mr. Mackey hacking into NORAD and trying to goad the US into nuking Russia is “Two Tribes” by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. South Park’s timely satirical point is encapsulated in the song’s lyrics, with the cheery music masking a surprisingly dark and cynical message. A pointed anti-war song, “Two Tribes,” sees the singer gleefully celebrate the prospect of nuclear war while
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