Stan Bush says some songs carry a deeper message about looking within and connecting to inner strength.
1. Pop Culture Field Manual interviews Stan Bush about 'The Touch,' 'Bloodsport,' 'Kickboxer,' 'The Wraith,' 'Sailor Moon,' and his new single 'Freedom.'
2. The hosts introduce Stan Bush as the voice that has opened the show since the beginning and as a close family friend of the host's father for about 25 years.
3. The episode asks how Stan Bush built a music career that tied 'The Touch' to 'Transformers' and kept him working across films, television, and games.
4. Stan Bush says he grew up in Florida, played music through school, and spent years in nightclubs in the South.
5. He moved to Boulder, Colorado, with a recording group, spent three years there, and then followed that band to Los Angeles after Electra Records signed it.
6. After that band broke up, he went solo and released the album that carried 'The Touch' on the 'Mirage' record from Scotti Brothers and Epic Records.
7. Stan Bush says the record company told him they had put 'The Touch' into an animated movie about robots before he knew what the project was.
8. He says he later sang for 'Bloodsport' and 'Kickboxer,' describing that period as hired-singer work and even saying he did commercials as a 'beer voice guy.'
9. He traces his 'motivational rock' style back to 'The Touch,' saying it pushed him toward songs about believing in yourself and 'go for it.'
10. He says the 1980s music scene 'kind of just went away' in the early 1990s and that he spent much of that decade doing recording work overseas.
11. He says 'The Touch' has become part of films, television episodes like 'The Goldbergs,' and video games, which gave the song a long afterlife.
12. He tells a story about meeting Mark Wahlberg at a Transformers convention and singing 'The Touch' with him on an iPhone.
13. He says 'Heart and Head' was written for an album and then placed in 'The Wraith,' which he connects to Scotti Brothers' soundtrack roster.
14. He says the label also had Weird Al Yankovic and Survivor, which fits the movie-song pipeline he was working in.
15. Stan Bush says he sang 'She's Got the Power' for 'Sailor Moon' after a last-minute call, calling it a hired-gun session.
16. He says he is working on a new single called 'Freedom' and frames it around 4th of July parades, veterans, and gratitude for the United States.
17. The interview is conversational and anecdotal, with the hosts often responding as fans and sharing their own military and childhood memories.
18. Stan Bush speaks in a reflective, easygoing way, moving from career history to personal stories and then to patriotic themes.
19. Listeners who like 1980s soundtrack rock and movie music.
20. Skip if you want a tight, no-nostalgia business interview.
