What video game soundtrack is Ke$ha's 'Tik Tok' ripping off?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OKlzm6BQ8A

I think it's Contra, but maybe Ikari Warriors or Commando?

― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago)

I can't place the melody exactly -- almost sounds like something out of Mother -- but they're definitely stealing the sort of square-wave modulation/chorus effect famous from the Mega Man and Ninja Gaiden games.

― Nhex, Monday, 2 November 2009 19:12 (fifteen years ago)

Listened to the first stage of Contra a few times and i think it's taken from Contra and only slightly interpolated.

― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 November 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

hahaha i just heard this over the weekend and was having this weird "why the fuck am i so fascinated with this song?" reaction, but now the sad sad truth is revealed

― PHEAR MY POORAPULT (jjjusten), Monday, 2 November 2009 20:02 (fifteen years ago)

forks, how dare you compare that song to the prog rock majesty of Contra's soundtrack. don't EVEN.

― Nhex, Monday, 2 November 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago)

Compare!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWMyoNhGHbk

― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 November 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

I can't believe I just watched that whole Contra video.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:07 (fifteen years ago)

Sounds like Mike Tyson's Punch Out to me.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:51 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Is this the only Ke$ha thread? Or is she better covered in some rolling pop thread? "Tik Tok" really annoys me but also gets stuck in my head enough that I have to kind of acknowledge it's good at what it's doing, even if the lyrics are some of the most irritating shit I've ever heard - - - not in the sense that they're BAD, just in the sense of, they paint a picture of Ke$ha as a really irritating person living an even more irritating life. I do kind of like the weirdly dated references, though - P. Diddy? Hot guys looking like Mick Jagger? Also I like the way she says "DJ, blow my speakers up" - that's kinda nice.

Itinerant ilxor emilys tried to sell me on "Blah Blah Blah" but I kind of can't get past the 3OH!3 guest spot.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 19 March 2010 00:06 (fifteen years ago)

I like Ke$ha, but i understand the backlash.
there's GOT to be an ILM thread by now, right?

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 19 March 2010 00:41 (fifteen years ago)

i like, put tik tok on sometimes. i like the way she says "clothes" and "boys blowin up our phones PHONES"

sorry, i just do

― big (surm), Friday, 19 March 2010 00:43 (fifteen years ago)

Which Vaccuous Pop Irritant's "Influences" list is this?

― zvookster, Friday, 19 March 2010 01:02 (fifteen years ago)

Too much going on there I think - - - future generations deserve a thread easily found through ILX searches. Although I guess they could just get there from here. Nevermind?

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 19 March 2010 01:31 (fifteen years ago)

this song is such a trap. there are undeniably catchy and hooky things in there, so you want to keep listening, but that vocal! what a fucking nightmare.

― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 05:22 (fifteen years ago)

lol I thought this was uffy.

― NotEnough, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 18:55 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB903MOkx5A

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 9 April 2010 22:05 (fifteen years ago)

a one-way ticket on the FLOP BUS

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 10 April 2010 03:40 (fifteen years ago)

It wasn't a videogame soundtrack...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbN5B93mpFE

― billstevejim, Sunday, 11 April 2010 17:19 (fifteen years ago)

lyrically and vocally, yeah.
but musically we're still in contra territory.