David Rolfe, the vocalist for later themes of the series, played the guitar while Jason Paige provided the vocals.
on September 8, 1998, Jason Paige was called back again in 1999 to produce an extended version of the theme song for the album Pokémon 2.B.A.
[5] Meanwhile, when first approached about the theme song, Siegler initially saw the show's concept as "incomprehensible" before realizing that the series was about friendship.
[10] In 2015, the song was voted to be part of the annual Dutch Top 2000 radio marathon, after a call-for-action on Facebook went viral within the country.
[13] In July 2016, after the release of the mobile game Pokémon Go, the song had a 382% increase in listeners on music streaming platform Spotify.
[16][17][18][19][20] Afterwards, Dutch electronic music artist Hardwell played the theme at the 2016 edition of Ultra Europe as one of his final tunes.
[24][25] In an interview with the New York Post, Paige claimed that he did not originally expect the song to become popular when he first recorded it, stating that he "didn’t really know much about Pokémon" when he did the demo, other than a scene in the animated series that caused bouts of epileptic seizures in Japan.
[26] Paige also performed another parody of the song, featuring Dwayne Johnson as a Pokémon as well as YouTube stars MatPat and Ali-A.
[35] Others who have covered the theme song included Postmodern Jukebox,[36] Kurt Hugo Schneider with Lindsey Stirling,[37] Eric Calderone,[38] Baracksdubs,[39] Tay Zonday,[2] Powerglove,[2][40] Pat Cashman and Xander Mobus as announcers from Super Smash Bros.,[41] Nathan Sykes,[42][43] and Anthony Vincent.
[46] During the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, the Norwegian representative, russ music artist Andreas Haukeland, better known as Tix, sang a parody of the theme song as a love serenade to the Azerbaijani representative, Samira Efendi, whom Tix had shown an affection for since the beginning of the contest.
The song contains lyrics such as “I will travel across [Rotterdam] Ahoy / Searching far and wide / Teach Efendi to understand / The power that’s inside”.