Well, certain things just go well together. Peanut butter and chocolate. Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. Rush Limbaugh and being chased through the forest and then set upon by a pack of wild dogs. Cherry flavor and Coca-Cola. Now another natural fit has come together: Iron Man and AC/DC. The heavy repetitive hard rocking guitar centric work of AC/DC is going to be the predominant music heard on the “Iron Man 2″ soundtrack. Usually big summer blockbusters go with a more modern sound, and “Iron Man 2″ was going to fall victim to that syndrome itself before the producers finally decided, in a stroke of genius, to go with AC/DC. Which is fortunate, because these were their other choices.
1. Vampire Weekend
Given the exceptional popularity of Vampire Weekend, producers on” Iron Man 2″ felt it would be the perfect time to capitalize on their success. However, in the final fight scene between Iron Man and Whiplash, Vampire Weekend’s song “Oxford Comma” kept making test audiences fill out the question on their surveys that said, “How did you feel about the climactic final battle?” with, “It made me feeling like curling up with a good book and drinking lemonade.”
2. Adam Lambert
The controversy surrounded Adam Lambert’s sexuality was thought to be a potential boost for “Iron Man 2,” but the throwback ’80s beat and homo-euphoric lyrics never sounded quite right over the visual of Mickey Rourke, badly burned and working alone in the darkness to build a suit to get revenge against Iron Man for covering up the brutal history of the Stark Corporation.
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3. Rihanna
At first “Iron Man 2″ and Rihanna seemed like an ideal match. But that was back when, instead of having Robert Downey Jr. play Tony Stark, they were going to go with a beautiful sixteen year old black girl wearing combat lingerie. Later they decided to stick with what they knew and go with Robert Downey Jr., and Rihanna was officially out.
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4. Blink 182
The original music producer on the film insisted that they use the Blink 182 album “Take Off Your Pants and Jacket” as the film’s score. It was later learned that the original music producer was actually Whiplash, and wanted nothing more than to destroy Iron Man. Whiplash was quickly fired and replaced with John Debney whose resume, unlike Whiplash, didn’t include, ” Experience: Hating Iron Man, attempting to destroy Iron Man.”
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