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Fans have been wondering how the musical numbers in “Hocus Pocus 2” will live up to the original’s exhilarated performance of “I Put a Spell on You,” and the sequel does not disappoint. This time around, the Sanderson Sisters sing Blondie’s 1979 hit “One Way or Another” to the Salemites celebrating Halloween, with a twist on the lyrics such as “We’re gonna grab ya/ I’ll nab ya/ I’ll jab ya” and “We’re gonna snatch ya/ I’m gonna catch ya.”
The spell is the same one they recite in “Hocus Pocus” – “Ah-say-into-pie/ Oppa-maybe-uppen-die/ In-kama-koray-ah-ma/ Hey, high/ Say, bye/ Bye/ Bye, bye, bye” — but the resulting actions by those in the crowd are quite different. In the first film, the spell is supposed to make the crowd dance until they die, but in “Hocus Pocus 2,” the song is meant to force them to scour the town, searching for the mayor.
Some fans may be disappointed that the lyrics aren’t more tailored to the Sanderson Sisters in the way “I Put a Spell on You” is in the first film, but the way the crowd acts entranced, swaying as one with their faces slack and eyes wide, makes up for the lack of witchy lyrics — especially as the crowd searches the town like a slow-moving flash mob.