Captain Marvel goes for "Connection"

(hat tip to Marvel.com for the pic)

Back in September, I tried to predict which piece of popular music would be featured in Captain Marvel's first trailer. They fooled me, by not using any popular music in the first trailer.

Fortunately, the third trailer did feature a song from the 1990's:



You may not remember Connection by Elastica, but that is the song in the trailer. It was also Elastica's biggest hit, reaching number 2 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in 1994.



If you aren't familiar with Elastica, don't sweat it. They formed in 1992, broke up in 2001, and had 2 albums in-between. Only their first album, the self-titled "Elastica", reached number 1 on the UK charts, but fared a miserable number 66 in the U.S. charts. Their second album, The Menace, never charted in the U.S. and only reached number 24 in the U.K.

As for Connection, songwriter (and Elastica's lead singer) Justine Frischmann got sued for lifting the intro riff from another song, Wire's Three Girl Rhumba, from 1977:



Frischmann lost in court, and lost some royalties in the process.

Ironically, the guitar riff in question is the most noticeable part of the song in the Captain Marvel trailer.