Martika - Toy Soldier C/D

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Now that Eminem has sampled it, I guess that if he releases it as a single, we will have enough of it, but until then I declare myself a fan and a lover of the 80s production of this naive pop song. So SHAME ON ME!!! CLASSIC... without any doubt!

― Panagiotis Pileidis (Panagiotis Pileidis), Monday, 15 November 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It had to come to this eventually, didn't it?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 15 November 2004 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahahahah!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 November 2004 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chucksconnection.com/toysoldiers/toysoldiers3.jpg

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

enjoyable film, excellent song

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

but TS vs 'Cry Little Sister'?

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I did like this song, a nice melodic ballad. Other than "Love...Thy Will Be Done", it was the only thing she did that I liked though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Martika's Kitchen

― Shooz (shooz), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember reading some blurb in a girl teen magazine along the lines of "Watch out Madonna - there's another singularly-named singer coming atcha and her name begins with M too!!"

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: Step by Step vs. Hart to Hart

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Martika is in the Mr. T video Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool, which may qualify her for sainthood.

― Talent Explosion (Talent Explosion), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a great song. Classic.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

shes also in the original kids incorprated

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

a track that i will forever associated with playing Legend of Zelda on my NES, thanks to my parents stereo that we always tuned to the Top 40 station...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

twenty years pass...

for the first time in probably 20-30 years, I heard the Pointer Sisters's "Dare Me" come up on a stream and it unlocked a memory of where I'd heard it before.....

HERE!!! with Martika singing it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v31cNsqzQss

― Edward Albee Sure (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 October 2025 16:48 (eight months ago)

This would fit seamlessly onto Martika's first album. which is a perfect album. I was somehow unaware that this was her origin story, but, UK

― technopolis, Thursday, 9 October 2025 16:54 (eight months ago)

That is a good album. I checked it out last year because Toy Soldiers has always been one of my top 80s pop songs. This may not be news to anyone else, but that's when I learned that Jennifer Love Hewitt and a pre-Black Eyed Peas Fergie are in the background children's choir, because they were fellow cast members with Martika on KIDS Incorporated.

― peace, man, Thursday, 9 October 2025 17:05 (eight months ago)

She was SO the cool girl on Kids Incorporated. I was obsessed with her and with Ryan. <3

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 11 October 2025 23:35 (eight months ago)

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