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Will Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer had this routine on SNL where they'd play this weird couple who would do live music for whatever get-together they'd shown up to on each episode. One of them was in early May of '99. Anyway, part of the routine was that they'd say nice things between songs and will Ferrell would continue to play softly on the keyboard. When they were playing (both of them were on vocals), they would randomly switch from one new hit song to another. In the one I'm thinking of, they switch songs at one point and go "Duel of the Faaaaaaates!" and then start singing the fast tempo instrumental in doots. Even to this day, I think of that sketch and I crack up.
I'm not sure if the mtv premiere was the first time I ever heard DotF, but it probably was. I seem to recall seeing/hearing some of it in the end credits for either ET or Access Hollywood the night before (maybe it was the night after, it's been so long). It was cool to be able to hear some of the actual music from the movie before it came out, although even back then I understood the concept of a "single" and knew that what was in the movie wouldn't be in that exact form. I can still remember sitting in that theater (it's gone now!) back on the afternoon of May 19, 1999, and how I felt when those destroyer droids rolled out into the Naboo starfighter hangar to the tune of that music.
The lightsaber battle that followed really blew me away. Looking back on it today, a lot of that was probably more due to the sound than anything else, but it was still cool to see a new lightsaber battle up on the screen for the first time ever.