SONG FOR THE SECOND MOVIE

On Our Own

Release date: June 22, 1989

Writers: Bobby Brown

Director: Ivan Reitman

Main Cast:

·         Bill Murray as Peter Venkman

·         Dan Aykroyd as Raymond Stantz

·         Harold Ramis as Egon Spengler

·         Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddemore

·         Bobby Brown as himself

(Rating 3 of 5)

Summary: The music video consists mostly of Brown singing and dancing to his own song in floating TV screens across New York City.  The screens cut from Brown to scenes from Ghostbusters II.  There are bunch of celebrity appearances from great ones like Superman actor Christopher Reeve, and blowhards like the Republican nominee for President in 2016, Donald Trump.

My Take:  I will be honest I like the song it’s very catchy, some things fall off for me though.  For one with exception of the little rap at the beginning most of lyrics don’t seem to have much to do with Ghostbusters.  The Ghostbusters song written for the first movie by Ray Parker, Jr. was actually about the Ghostbusters.  Most the lyrics seem to be Brown singing to his girlfriend.  It is almost like Brown most the work this song sitting at his desk and someone called to tell him he had the Ghostbusters contract so he just added a small rap about the movie's plot to the beginning and called it good.   You can watch the video here.