Stranger Things and The Boys share more in common than just the supernatural

Blondie’s Rapture and going ‘out to the parking lot’

TikTokers couldn’t wait to get their hands on Harry’s audio and Soldier Boy’s deep-voice cover and turn it into something new.

Not only has Blondie’s original rap about being sent to heaven and the man from Mars got traction with The Boys’ over-riding parody of the Marvel universe, but fans speculate it could also be a chart topper.

Already, there have been more than 550 million views of the viral TikTok trend, in which creators make funny memes by lip syncing parts of the original song before lip syncing parts of Soldier Boy’s cover.

The two versions are accompanied by captions that seek to make funny comparisons between two different types of people.

While miming the original, the creators use a filter that gives them big eyes to make them look sweet like Debbie Harry. Then they switch versions, and the filter changes to give them a square jaw like Soldier Boy’s.

It’s another TikTok trend going viral – and it might just be a new source of revenue and royalties for Harry and her band.

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Blondie’s renaissance comes after the massive success of Stranger Things helped launch Kate Bush back into the charts with Running Up That Hill.

In a 1992 interview with Classic Albums, singer-songwriter Bush, now 63, said the song was originally called Deal With God but regrettably had to change the title, Insider reported.

“We were told that if we kept this title then it wouldn’t be played in any of the religious countries,” she said.

“And generally, we might keep it blocked purely because it had ‘god’ in the title. Now, I couldn’t believe this. This seemed completely ridiculous to me and the title was such a big part of the song’s identity.

“I just spent two, three years making an album and we weren’t gonna get this record played on the radio if I was stubborn so I felt I had to be grown up about this.

“But it’s always something that I regretted doing and normally regret any compromises that I make.”