Pokémon world

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Pokémon world
Noel Pix
publication August 18, 2000
length 3:21, 1:00 (TV version)
Genre (s) Pop , New Jack Swing
Author (s) Andy Knote , John Loeffler , John Siegler
Producer (s) Andy Knote
Label Koch Records

Pokémon Welt is a song by the German singer Noel Pix from 2000 that was used in German-speaking countries as the theme song for the second season of the TV series Pokémon . It was written by Andy Knote , John Loeffler and John Siegler and produced by the former.

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On December 4, 1999, the second season of the internationally successful Japanese anime series Pokémon premiered in the United States of America . As with the first season, this was also provided with numerous changes for the American release in order to better match the viewing habits of the western market. In addition to other names, possible changes in the dialogue, overpainting of Japanese script and styles of content that is not considered child-friendly in the USA, the music of the series was also affected. If the instrumental score was essentially retained in the English language version and was only supplemented by new pieces, the popular songs, which are mainly assigned to the genres J-Pop and J-Rock , have all been replaced and replaced by newly composed songs similar to those of the time Better suited to the tastes of the local audience. While in the Japanese original Mezase Pokémon Master ( め ざ せ ポ ケ モ ン マ ス タ ー ) from the song Rival! ( ラ イ バ ル！ ) was replaced as the title song (both songs were performed by the singer Rica Matsumoto , who also dubbed the main character of the series Satoshi and Ash Ketchum), has been in the English-language version since the fourth episode of the second season instead of Jason Paige's sung Pokémon Theme of the title Pokémon World by Russell Velázquez in the opening credits. As with the first season, the German dubbed version released in 2000 was based on the American version instead of the original. So the new music was also taken over, but translated into German by Andy Knote . Noel Pix took over the singing of the opening .

Unlike its predecessor, Pokémon World was officially released in the English, German ( Pokémon World ) and French versions ( Un Monde Pokémon , sung by Jean-Marc Anthony Kabeya ) as a single instead of on an album, but without any notable successes in came to the USA. In German-speaking countries, however, where the broadcasts on the TV station RTL II , which achieved high ratings, resulted in a veritable anime boom that helped some of the series' soundtracks to very good sales figures (for example, the German edition of the music for the first Pokémon season, Pokémon - Grab them all ! , the ninth most successful album of 2000 in Austria ), the title advanced to a hit in the German, Austrian and Swiss charts. In France , the version in the national language achieved similar success.

For the film Pokémon 2 - The Power of the Individual from 2000, Pokémon World was re-recorded as a cover version by the boy band Youngstown and the girl group Nobody's Angel and made extensive changes. It received a Teen Pop - and Techno -Anstrich, Rappassagen and individual with Autotune alienated lines, also the melody in some places has been slightly modified. For the German synchronization of the film, the song was newly translated and received a completely different text than the TV version and a different instrumental than in the USA, so that it is difficult to recognize as the same song.

In 2007 Pokémon World appeared on the compilation Pokémon X: 10 Years of Pokémon , but not in the well-known full single version, but only in the one-minute excerpt that was used as the theme music.

Music and lyrics

Pokémon world is a pop song with bonds of the New Jack Swing genre, that of a heavy, continually repeated percussion - Loop is embossed. It is divided into two stanzas and the refrain; At the beginning of the song and after the second hook there is also a passage in which a group of people speak lines of text rhythmically to the beat. After the latter point, a sound guitar - solo , before the chorus is repeated several times and a fadeout begins. The text of the song is written from the point of view of the protagonist of the series, Ash Ketchum, and describes his ambition to become the greatest Pokémon master of all time. To do this, he trains intensively with his Pokémon and, as is customary for children from the age of 11 in this universe, travels across the sung-about Pokémon world.

success

Pokémon world
Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 50 (7 weeks) 7th
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) 30th (3 weeks) 3
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 49 (7 weeks) 7th
Un Moons Pokémon
Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
France (SNEP) France (SNEP) 48 (14 weeks) 14th

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ credits. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Date of the first US broadcast. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Comparison of the American and Japanese versions of the series. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Date of the German first broadcast. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  5. ^ "Pokémon World" single. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  6. ^ "Pokémon World" single. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  7. ^ "Un Monde Pokémon" single. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  8. ^ Austrian annual album charts 2000. Retrieved on July 14, 2020 .
  9. ↑ "Pokémon 2" soundtrack. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  10. ^ German film version. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  11. ↑ "Pokémon X" tracklist. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Lyrics (TV version). Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  13. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH
  14. ↑ Chart sources: FR