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I hate the use of popular songs in movies, amirite?
by Anonymous1 week ago
"Tricking" viewers into liking scenes is part of trying to make movies people like. Why should they take a chance using music that might trick people into thinking they DON'T like the scene or the movie?
by Anonymous1 week ago
There's a difference between creating a good scene and masking a mediocre scene with a song played way too loudly
by Anonymous1 week ago
a good scene often includes the music.
by Anonymous1 week ago
The point is that it shouldn't heavily rely on it. I also think hearing those kinds of popular songs can be compared to seeing a wildly famous actor in a movie where they don't even try to blend in. It can (not always) take me out of the scene. And not to get ranty, but I it also reminds me of radio stations playing the same popular songs on repeat because it's "guaranteed" to be listened to vs playing other songs less mainstream from the same artists. I didn't even know I liked Foo Fighters until a radio station I used to listen to played their music like every 4th song, but it wasn't just the usual 2 songs.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Hey shrek had a great use of Immigrant Song
by Anonymous1 week ago
Shrek had a bunch of bangers honestly. Can't hear Hallelujah without thinking of Him.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Best version of Im a Believer
by Anonymous1 week ago
And Baf Reputation
by Anonymous1 week ago
Shrek is the most underrated movie. It's fantastic
by Anonymous1 week ago
Everyone says they love Shrek. "Shrek is life" is a meme. underrated
by No_Ant1 week ago
Best version of hallelujah too
by Haleighmedhurst1 week ago
Better than Thor: Ragnorok? Honestly, you could put that tune on a toilet paper ad and it would still be epic. Which was OP's point, I guess.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Yeah… gotta say… I liked that too, with the whole viking battle motif, it straight rocked
by Anonymous1 week ago
Don't forget Linkin Park at the end of Transformers
by Raulstoltenberg1 week ago
Seriously the immigrant song is always killer
by fdonnelly1 week ago
Shrek is the obvious exception to this
by Anonymous1 week ago
You mean the third Shrek movie? That doesn't count as a Shrek movie.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Im pretty sure it was the second
by Anonymous1 week ago
Nah, Immigrant Song was in the third, very briefly. I Need a Hero was the banger from the second one.
by Same-Comparison-69201 week ago
So the snow white thing was the third? Huh ok. I mean they are all fun But yes I need a hero was def a banger!
by Anonymous1 week ago
Yeah, Charming was trying to take over and had all the princesses jailed, so they had the epic jailbreak scene with the Immigrant song 😂
by Limp-Sense27691 week ago
God I hated the amount of people who suddenly liked The Eels because their "Beloved Monster" song made it into shrek. I was an angry little gate-keeping indie rock kid lmfao.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Man, I liked The Eels when Mr E's Beautiful Blues made it into Road Trip.
by Desperate-Skirt1 week ago
I feel so uncool, not familiar with them!
by Anonymous1 week ago
A good original score is a thing of beauty.
by Micaelaroob1 week ago
You must really hate guardians of the galaxy 😂
by Hour_Reputation54261 week ago
Creep (Acoustic) worked crazy well for Rocket too.
by Active-Abrocoma1 week ago
Best soundtrack
by Anonymous1 week ago
The Elvis movie with Austin Butler did this. I was NOT a fan.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I had a problem with Moulin Rouge as well.
by OpportunityOk1 week ago
You mean it tricks you. To me it's just a song in the background. I like a lot of music in movies bc I have discovered artists and genres I would not have known about had it not been in a movie.
by Virgiehessel1 week ago
Exactly! Or that moment of glee when you hear a song that you know that not a lot of other people do!
by Entire-Aardvark63191 week ago
Definitely!!!
by Virgiehessel1 week ago
Unless the song is super distracting (or catchy) I usually don't notice the music. I'm way more focused on the dialogue
by Impressive_Net73961 week ago
oh yeah this is a good point i found one of my favorite artists (whitey) through breaking bad
by Anonymous1 week ago
Worse for me is when they use popular songs but its some dull cover they made just for the movie. So uninspired and never hits as good as the original hit recording.
by Unusual-Lion-34001 week ago
Or commercials. I'm looking at you Ozempic. Sure, that Pilot song wasn't great, but it's like hearing nails on a chalkboard.
by Davonte971 week ago
What? The commercial is better. You dont randomly belt out oh-Oh—OZEMPIC! Just me?
by Anonymous1 week ago
Shrek made smash mouths career
by hermannmarilie1 week ago
Walking on the Sun was way before Shrek and played on pop and rock stations incessantly.
by Ben491 week ago
It's not possible to walk on the sun its very far away and very hot.
by hermannmarilie1 week ago
I love it when they have a popular song in the trailer but it's never in the movie. Also, when they release a soundtrack album that includes a favorite band which influences you to watch the movie and they don't even play it.
by zcrist1 week ago
looking at you, WW84.
by General_County1 week ago
Not for long
by OpportunityOk1 week ago
Wait wait... so you hate Shrek?! Sacrilege!!!
by Anonymous1 week ago
So eminem 8 mile
by Anonymous1 week ago
Well yes, that's why people like Guardians of the Galaxy, the like the music but they also like how the use it in the movie context, not like the first suicide squad that felt like they wanted to make a movie based on several music videos.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I think it can be done well, but when it's done poorly (especially in animation), it's awful. I had that issue with the Mario movie
by Dazzling_Might39341 week ago
I miss when artists made full sound tracks that went with movies!
by maverick971 week ago
It makes total sense in GotG, it's part of Peter's character and history. The songs being used were his favourites.
by sidhilll1 week ago
Particularly hate it in the Chris Pine Star Trek movies, hugely out of place.
by Ok_Long1 week ago
Especially in animated films
by Anonymous1 week ago
Pokemon The First Movie
by Anonymous1 week ago
Few can tell me they looked through that movie's soundtrack and found "popular" songs, though. Blessed Union of Souls weren't that big.
by sidhilll1 week ago
Almost sure it was Emma Bunton rather than Britney Spears but point received. Still, the kids are long gone by that point so it may not fully apply.
by sidhilll1 week ago
Trolls was insufferable for this reason
by AccomplishedPay1 week ago
My daughter likes it because of the catchy music 😂😭 I turn it on just so she'll behave for a bit and have to listen to cringy music to watch her dance or go do my chores. It truly is hard though, a 1.5yo dancing is so stinking cute
by Witty-Writer1 week ago
I hear you. My three-year-old daughter has the cutest dance moves I've ever seen
by AccomplishedPay1 week ago
I absolutely love that kids have no shame and just feel like moving their body to some music they like and it might be some weird wiggle or squats with arms raised but they're so happy and nobody is gonna judge them for expressing the joy the music gives them. It's so pure
by Witty-Writer1 week ago
Mine loves sunglasses! She's really obsessed with me telling her she's cute. She lights up. I put a bow in her hair and said "cute!" And ever since she's a sucker for it. And she loves to put chip clips in my hair and tell me I'm cute. I love the mental image. It sounds adorable
by Witty-Writer1 week ago
Heck yeah, that sounds familiar. Always nice to meet another girl dad. Girls are so much fun!
by AccomplishedPay1 week ago
That's what I was thinking of…and Sing. Babysat my nieces and they wanted to watch that. I felt like dying.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Do the music artists get royalties when a person streams the movie?
by Anonymous1 week ago
Letters to Juliet used Love Story & I think it was perfect.
by Anonymous1 week ago
But that's such a good song
by fdonnelly1 week ago
It's a great song! My point is that song works just fine without lining up the words, "Lord I'm wasted and I can't find my way home" with a volume bump, to the scene of the girl puking. Too "on the nose". I saw a really bad cover band do LA Woman once, and it went like this. Well I blew into town about an hour ago (Looks at imaginary wristwatch) Took a look around to see which way the wind blow. (Hand above eyes like he's looking for something, and then mime smoking a joint) I don't generally use the word "cringe" but this was "cringe AF". I think it's called "indicating" and it's something that bad actors and performance artists do.
by OpportunityOk1 week ago
I think the real problem with using popular songs in movies is that it ruins the illusion of the movie being in an alternate universe or being you know, a movie. It brings it too close to "real life," and not in a good way. I think easily recognizable songs should only be used in movies when they're being used to create a scene thats set during a specific time period or if its something thats exceptionally relevant to the plot of the movie.
by Anonymous1 week ago
The worst, Brown Eyed Girl in Sleeping With the Enemy, no no wait, the worst was every track in Knights Tale.
by srowe1 week ago
I enjoyed it in A Knights Tale because it was so obviously tounge-in-cheek
by Novel_Station1 week ago
i agree and especially hate when it's some unfitting genre / time period to whatever show or movie i'm watching. It's so jarring and immersion breaking to hear some 90's rock song during a movie set in the 1920's or whatever.
by Anonymous1 week ago
You must HATE A Knights Tale then
by Novel_Station1 week ago
I think the term is anachronistic.
by OpportunityOk1 week ago
What if you train yourself not to like popular songs?
by Schusterarthur1 week ago
what makes me even more vomit: the use of rock classics or other oldie stuff and then its blown up to "epic" with overorchestration or whatever.
by breichel1 week ago
The Greatest Showman did a good job
by zemlakalayna1 week ago
Song uses are great but i think the best uses are those that are specific to the taste of the people that are making it as adds a personal touch and can hopeful introduce or reintroduce a song that hasn't been done to death yet.
by AbbreviationsGlum6891 week ago
So you don't like Marvel Movies?
by Thackett1 week ago
No I don't.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Completely understandable.
by Thackett1 week ago
I was so mad when I learned Welcome Home, Son by Radical Face was used in the film The Kissing Booth
by Anonymous1 week ago
So making a movie ….
by Anonymous1 week ago
OMG was saying this last night when we watched Anyone But You. That Unwritten song is beyond played...the movie was stupid too
by Anonymous1 week ago
Yeah I see this trick all the time with movie trailers. It was sort of a fresh move a few years ago, but by this point it feels like the only marketing strategy any studio ever uses is to beat their target audience over the head with their 800lb nostalgia club. It's pandering and unimaginative.
by Prudent-Macaron47121 week ago
Something in the way
by myrtis311 week ago
All to well in Fall Guy had me tearing up
by Anonymous1 week ago
I'm always pleasantly surprised when my not so popular favorite band has a not so well known song in a show or movie. For example legion had the castle by the flaming lips.
by Sallyschmitt1 week ago
It's called a needle drop.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Was the song added after the scene or was the scene made for the song?
by Anonymous1 week ago
Some work, but some are garbage, like usage in sci-fi, its so annoying. Guardians of the galaxy comes to mind, reminds me of some annoying ass geek or something. So corny
by Temporary-Cable30301 week ago
The Immigrant Song in Thor 3 and Free Bird in The Kingsman was the most perfect marriage of music set to a movie scene. And James Gunn especially excels at matching the right song to the movie moment. In Guardians of the Galaxy, when the good guys escape from their prison, Peter goes back to get his walk-man (a music player for you youngsters). The song playing as he leaves the prison is commonly called the Pina Colada Song, but its real title is Escape. In Thor 4 (Yes the movie wasn't great) Gunn frequently used the song Sweet Child of Mine. It had so many meanings in relation to the movie. The bad guy was motivated by the death of his daughter, his sweet child. He set out on a quest to bring this sweet child of mine back to life. He succeeded. And Thor adopted the girl so she became his sweet child of mine. And the actress who played the little girl was the actual daughter Chris Hemsworth, so in reality she was truly his sweet child of mine.
by Ok-Month881 week ago
Kingsman church scene enters the chat
by Anonymous1 week ago
Not sure if this counts, but i got so sick of every movie trailer using thunderstruck by ACDC for a while. Seemed like there were a few years where it was in EVERY trailer for some reason.
by Actual-Ad1 week ago
Disagree. Guardians of the Galaxy and "Fox on the Run"... That was worth the price of admission. And Ghost Busters would not have been Ghost Busters without Ghost Busters...
by After-Ad-86021 week ago
All I can think is the Sopranos episode with Tracy and how "Living on a Thin Line" really enhanced the scene.
by fdonnelly1 week ago
Have you seen goodfellas? Assume you have but that entire movie has bangers that fit the scene so well.
by Maryboyle1 week ago
The song Jump by Van Halen has been ruined for me. I used to like that song, then they included it in a LOT of movies from the mid 2010s till now, and I can't stand it anymore.
by Busy-Scientist1 week ago
Movies that do that more often than not are pretty mediocre films.
by Anonymous1 week ago
You look at movies of the past and so many have bangers on their soundtracks and music was made more for movies opposed to just throwing some Kanye track on there. The list is long, just think of some of your favorite songs or ones in your family and there's a good chance a few of them are connected to a movie made during 70-90.
by IndependenceAware1 week ago
I love when old songs are in movies instead of recent ones
by Anonymous1 week ago
I agree. I just said this recently. Can't stand the use of "80s music" in movies
by halvorsonpat1 week ago
that's marketing to you right there lmao
by Ok-Return75471 week ago
I can see how it's an unpopular opinion. But this is like saying using a famous actor in a film is cheating as well. Using a song they hope you'll connect with is part of the creative process. As someone who does this for a living, I'll tell you that I choose whatever song best fits how the moment feels. I never think to myself, man this movie sucks, I wonder what song can trick people into thinking it's good. That's not to say that some movies or shows don't suck and the music turns out to be the best part.
by Educational_Fan1 week ago
FYI it's called a needle drop.
by Forsaken-Hair-8711 week ago
I think the point with that was to make it a callback to the beginning of the movie, not just reusing a song
by Anonymous1 week ago
Yeah but that was immigrant song a song about Vikings.
by Novel_Station1 week ago
I'm literally so tired of hearing Take on Me in movies. Like I'm just done with that song, honestly lol.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I kinda agree… I like when it's a cover of a popular song though. Idk why
by townemarjory1 week ago
I totally agree with you! But!!! I think it's nice once the movie ages. When I watch older movies, 90s and beyond, it's nice when they have the quintessential songs of that decade. Especially 80s movies
by Ricefredy1 week ago
Same. Especially if it's pop "genre" music. Totally ruins any vibe the movie had.
by Kuhncamron1 week ago
I hate it even more when it's the variety of so-called "indie" music that is also corporate-approved, so it's used over and over and over in "quirky" films to lend an aura of "artsiness". Bon Iver, for example. It felt like you couldn't get away from his songs in any artsy-lite film for a few years.
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