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I see tags and comments like these asking these questions on this post often, so I’m just gonna go ahead answer both of these questions in one addition just to provide context, even if these are probably both rhetorical questions.

“Why is this such a bop?” After the commercial success of their albums Expo Expo and Astromantic, the Japanese hip hop group M-Flo released their most successful album to date, titled Beat Space Nine, which topped the charts in Japan. A theme of this album was M-Flo collaborating with with different Japanese pop artists saying that “M-Flo Loves” that artist. One of the songs on the album was “Tripod Baby [M-Flo Loves Lisa]” (Lisa being the singer in this song and a then former member of M-Flo).

Sega saw the success and popularity M-Flo and their new album in Japan as an opportunity to collaborate and promote their game they were releasing that same year, Shadow the Hedgehog. So in 2005, Sega made a deal with M-Flo to promote Shadow the Hedgehog by making a Shadow themed version of their song Tripod Baby (thus “M-Flo Loves Shadow the Hedgehog”), as well as being in commercials like this, photo shoots like this, and taking the music video for Tripod Baby and making a version to include Shadow.

I say all this because I feel as though some Sonic fans seeing this post are confused by the sound of the song because of the lack of context, leading to an assumption that the song was created specifically for Shadow the Hedgehog, when in reality it’s a remix of a popular song that was topping the charts in Japan. That’s not to say all pop songs are automatically bops, but there’s a reason Sega chose to collaborate with M-Flo and their song to promote their game.

“And why the fuck is it so long?” While there is a shorter version of this song, it’s been commonplace for songs that focus on danceability to be 5, 6, 7, or even 12 minutes or longer since the era of disco. These songs do usually have shorter versions, usually called the “radio mix,” but full longer versions are usually made for the intention of being played in a club. Originally, this was because longer songs gave DJs more time to prepare the next song. That’s not to say that this version of Tripod Baby was intended to play in a club, but other remixes on the remix album Dope Space Nine, in which this song is included in on iTunes, are of similar length. Here’s a video going over the history of why some pop songs became longer.

  • Track: Tripod Baby - M-Flo Loves Shadow the Hedgehog
  • Artist: M-Flo and Lisa