Could have came on as the background music on some sight in the middle of his online research of super heroes. If he was just clicking around various links about background stories and a random sight decided it need background music. I've been ambushed by sights with background music, that suddenly kicks in more than a few times.
Also, the way the song is worded it may not immediately lend temporary superpowers so much as CAUSE the most likely origin story available in the AoE. Random chemicals in store fall on some employee and the combo is just right to set off a dormant mutation. A bum eats just the right combination of garbage to form a potion in his stomach that gives him the power to fire exploding pickles from his eyebrows. A secretary gets so frustrated she bashes her head into her keyboard in exactly the right way to dial up a secret organizations websight and the morons follow up stupidity makes her bash in the password to their incomplete internet super powers file, which she runs. A teenager with a Destiny gets obsessed with a video game that the gods smite him for blowing off his Destined meeting with Fate... thus fusing man and machine.
Not necessary useful powers just ones that count as supernormal. Even if its just the ability to turn into a giant floating Technicolor yawn rutabaga... which impressed bored people at parties. The song gives his improbability field a mission and more range. Feed back like on 'I'm Alive' when its finished. Not really targetable.
Also, the way the song is worded it may not immediately lend temporary superpowers so much as CAUSE the most likely origin story available in the AoE. Random chemicals in store fall on some employee and the combo is just right to set off a dormant mutation. A bum eats just the right combination of garbage to form a potion in his stomach that gives him the power to fire exploding pickles from his eyebrows. A secretary gets so frustrated she bashes her head into her keyboard in exactly the right way to dial up a secret organizations websight and the morons follow up stupidity makes her bash in the password to their incomplete internet super powers file, which she runs. A teenager with a Destiny gets obsessed with a video game that the gods smite him for blowing off his Destined meeting with Fate... thus fusing man and machine.
Not necessary useful powers just ones that count as supernormal. Even if its just the ability to turn into a giant floating Technicolor yawn rutabaga... which impressed bored people at parties. The song gives his improbability field a mission and more range. Feed back like on 'I'm Alive' when its finished. Not really targetable.