This is fitting in a roundabout sort of way. Both the song and Spamton's character arc contain themes of how it's futile to equate your self-worth to your ability to compete in a corporate world.
There are a lot of themes of being unable to go along with the flow of big city life and the dark side of stardom in Scatman John's music that have a strange kind of harmony with Spamton's character. They're an oddly striking thematic pairing.
Lyrics from Everything Changes, another song by Scatman John: "My life's so exciting there is no life at all I'm trying to ride a tidal wave but can't help but fall Suspended animation, I'm a puppet on a string A canary in a cage expected to sing Yo yo momma, here I am at the top And your little Johnny boy ain't ever gonna flop I try to keep my face while I'm keeping up the pace I'm livin' in the moment
"And then Spamton understood that he doesn't needed to be popular just to be a [[BIG SHOT]], because everybody can be a [[BIG SHOT]] at Scatland's world..."
These two songs have no business fitting together so well. Somehow, the aggression and insanity of [BIG SHOT] is replaced with the joy and excitement of Scatman's World, but the tinge of tragedy that surrounds Spamton still feels extremely present. It feels kind of appropriate, given how Scatman John only made 3 albums before his career was cut short by cancer. He released his last album about half a year before he died, and this mashup almost makes me think of him refusing to let cancer take away his music and passion, his freedom, which adds a tragic beauty to his proclamation "I'm the Scatman!". That sort of fits with the meaning of Scatman's World, living an optimistic life of love and passion even though the world can be difficult and cruel, sometimes even without human intervention, along with trueness to oneself. Those themes combined with the freedom motif hit me really hard, especially with the hopelessness inherent to it everytime it's used in Deltarune. There's just something very beautiful to the human spirit striving against things it can't hope to stop, like fate and death.
im calling out from spamland im calling out from spamton's world if you wanna break free you better pull on those strings you've gotta learn how to be free in the fantasy
I feel like the reason this works so well is because some of the instruments used in Spamton's themes are naturally silly and happy, if that makes sense. That's also probably why Spamton's themes (especially BIG SHOT) feel so unnerving, since the silly instruments are put into a not-so-silly context
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