Please help me out, does anyone know where that song is from (the movie “Willard”-commercial), who sings it, the title, anything about it. I love it but I am not sure what it is called. I am talking about the low key one that says “we both found what we are looking for” Any help would be greatly appreciated 
By “commercial” do you mean trailer? The only song I recognize is “Bullet with butterfly wings” by the Smashing Pumpkins.
was it the old movie’s sequal’s song Ben by Michael Jackson?
The song is “Ben”. It’s sung by Michael Jackson, and it’s from the original “Willard” movie.
Actually, it’s from the sequal, Ben. I got corrected on that just the other day. IMDB has the particulars.
That was over 30 yrs ago, though. Probably why we’re mixing the two movies.
Well I’ll be darned
They’re remaking WILLARD!? Why!?!
shaking head
That’ll be item #371 on Tamerlane’s Signs o’ the Apolcalypse list.
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Can you think of a better screen vehicle for Crispin Glover? He’s the star.
In the UK, the “Ben” song is mostly remembered for the Marti Webb version in 1985, when it was hijacked in support of a nauseatingly sentimental TV show campaign in aid of Ben Hardwick, a popular, brave and cheerful child dying of liver disease. Unsurprisingly, no-one ever mentioned that it was originally in praise of a rat.
I don’t think the song in the trailer is the Michael Jackson version. It seems creepier and newer.
The only trailer I’ve seen is the one with the Smashing Pumpkins song used only for its lyrics “Despite all my rage/I a still just a rat in a cage” because its momentum doesn’t seem to fit.
I’ve heard the song. It IS “Ben”, but it’s done by someone else other than Michael Jackson. I think it’s a girl that sings it. I will make a wild guess and say that it’s Jessica Simpson, but it’s hard to tell.
I think I saw Aaron Carter singing it on some awards show about a year ago. Was it maybe him?
Do you know what a preemptive strike is, *lillyflower? It’s where you email the mods of this forum asking them to please move this to Cafe Society, where it belongs. I recommend manhattan, a real gentle soul… 
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Originally posted by karomon
I’ve heard the song. It IS “Ben”, but it’s done by someone else other than Michael Jackson. I think it’s a girl that sings it. I will make a wild guess and say that it’s Jessica Simpson, but it’s hard to tell.
I found out that the singer is Billy Gilman, the young country singer:)
Since this is about a song or a movie or some damn thing like that, I’ll move this thread to our arts forum, Cafe Society.
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