Masters Of The Universe, the new motion picture adaptation of the fantastical '80s cartoon, looks like fucking dogshit, a nightmare collision of psychedelic CGI spooge and self-aware quasi-comedy. Nicholas Galitzine plays He-Man. Jared Leto plays Skeletor. The trailer is rough. Nobody needs this shit. Masters Of The Universe was my motherfucking shit when I was in first grade, and even I don't need this. I'm annoyed that it exists. If you want to continually blast me with childhood nostalgia, at least do a good job of it. Fuck, man. Anyway, the Darkness did the theme song.
That at least makes sense, right? Ideally, a film like Masters Of The Universe should have an overblown '80s-style inspirational power-rock theme song, and the Darkness are better-equipped to provide this sort of thing than anyone else. Their song "Masters Of The Universe" takes clear inspiration from Queen's Flash Gordon soundtrack, and it goes as far over the top as a song can go. Justin Hawkins howls the movie's title like he means it. Listen below.
Speaking of Queen, all-time guitar hero Brian May is also involved in the Masters Of The Universe soundtrack. He worked with composer Daniel Pemberton on the instrumental track "Eternia," which came out last week. It's got the same tone as that Darkness song. (Eternia is the planet where He-Man and Skeletor live.)
In other Darkness news, there's apparently been a recent slate of AI-generated deepfakes, showing a young Justin Hawking singing to various politicians from the Labour party. They're supposed to be funny. In a YouTube video that he posted earlier this week, Hawkins addresses those videos and calls them "fucking abysmal." He is not into AI at all. Watch it below.
