It’s easy to dismiss the music of Bonnie Tyler as pure ’80s power-pop cheese. But cheesy or not, “Holding Out for a Hero” packs a punch worthy of Superman. Though he’s only mentioned once, the Man of Steel’s spirit soars through the song’s five minutes, laced with Tyler’s tornado vocals. Written by her “Total Eclipse of the Heart” tunesmith (and Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell collaborator) Jim Steinman and Dean Pitchford for the latter’s 1984 Footloose soundtrack, it was was made famous via the scene in which Kevin Bacon’s protagonist engages in a chicken fight, fought with tractors no less, against his evil arch-rival. Superman fans could later claim it as their own when “Holding Out for a Hero” was used for the scene in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman‘s pilot in which Dean Cain’s Clark Kent suits up as his alter ego for the first time.