-36 I hate the use of popular songs in movies, amirite?

by Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

There's a difference between creating a good scene and masking a mediocre scene with a song played way too loudly

by Anonymous 1 week ago

a good scene often includes the music.

by Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

Hey shrek had a great use of Immigrant Song

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Shrek had a bunch of bangers honestly. Can't hear Hallelujah without thinking of Him.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Best version of Im a Believer

by Anonymous 1 week ago

And Baf Reputation

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Shrek is the most underrated movie. It's fantastic

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Everyone says they love Shrek. "Shrek is life" is a meme. underrated

by No_Ant 1 week ago

Best version of hallelujah too

by Haleighmedhurst 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah… gotta say… I liked that too, with the whole viking battle motif, it straight rocked

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Don't forget Linkin Park at the end of Transformers

by Raulstoltenberg 1 week ago

Seriously the immigrant song is always killer

by fdonnelly 1 week ago

Shrek is the obvious exception to this

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You mean the third Shrek movie? That doesn't count as a Shrek movie.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Im pretty sure it was the second

by Anonymous 1 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-6920 1 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 Anonymous 1 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-Sense2769 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

Man, I liked The Eels when Mr E's Beautiful Blues made it into Road Trip.

by Desperate-Skirt 1 week ago

I feel so uncool, not familiar with them!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

A good original score is a thing of beauty.

by Micaelaroob 1 week ago

You must really hate guardians of the galaxy 😂

by Hour_Reputation5426 1 week ago

Creep (Acoustic) worked crazy well for Rocket too.

by Active-Abrocoma 1 week ago

Best soundtrack

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The Elvis movie with Austin Butler did this. I was NOT a fan.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I had a problem with Moulin Rouge as well.

by OpportunityOk 1 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 Virgiehessel 1 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-Aardvark6319 1 week ago

Definitely!!!

by Virgiehessel 1 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_Net7396 1 week ago

oh yeah this is a good point i found one of my favorite artists (whitey) through breaking bad

by Anonymous 1 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-3400 1 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 Davonte97 1 week ago

What? The commercial is better. You dont randomly belt out oh-Oh—OZEMPIC! Just me?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Shrek made smash mouths career

by hermannmarilie 1 week ago

Walking on the Sun was way before Shrek and played on pop and rock stations incessantly.

by Ben49 1 week ago

It's not possible to walk on the sun its very far away and very hot.

by hermannmarilie 1 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 zcrist 1 week ago

looking at you, WW84.

by General_County 1 week ago

Not for long

by OpportunityOk 1 week ago

Wait wait... so you hate Shrek?! Sacrilege!!!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

So eminem 8 mile

by Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 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_Might3934 1 week ago

I miss when artists made full sound tracks that went with movies!

by maverick97 1 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 sidhilll 1 week ago

Particularly hate it in the Chris Pine Star Trek movies, hugely out of place.

by Ok_Long 1 week ago

Especially in animated films

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Pokemon The First Movie

by Anonymous 1 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 sidhilll 1 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 sidhilll 1 week ago

Trolls was insufferable for this reason

by AccomplishedPay 1 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-Writer 1 week ago

I hear you. My three-year-old daughter has the cutest dance moves I've ever seen

by AccomplishedPay 1 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-Writer 1 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-Writer 1 week ago

Heck yeah, that sounds familiar. Always nice to meet another girl dad. Girls are so much fun!

by AccomplishedPay 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

Do the music artists get royalties when a person streams the movie?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Letters to Juliet used Love Story & I think it was perfect.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

But that's such a good song

by fdonnelly 1 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 OpportunityOk 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

The worst, Brown Eyed Girl in Sleeping With the Enemy, no no wait, the worst was every track in Knights Tale.

by srowe 1 week ago

I enjoyed it in A Knights Tale because it was so obviously tounge-in-cheek

by Novel_Station 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

You must HATE A Knights Tale then

by Novel_Station 1 week ago

I think the term is anachronistic.

by OpportunityOk 1 week ago

What if you train yourself not to like popular songs?

by Schusterarthur 1 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 breichel 1 week ago

The Greatest Showman did a good job

by zemlakalayna 1 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 AbbreviationsGlum689 1 week ago

So you don't like Marvel Movies?

by Thackett 1 week ago

No I don't.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Completely understandable.

by Thackett 1 week ago

I was so mad when I learned Welcome Home, Son by Radical Face was used in the film The Kissing Booth

by Anonymous 1 week ago

So making a movie ….

by Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 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-Macaron4712 1 week ago

Something in the way

by myrtis31 1 week ago

All to well in Fall Guy had me tearing up

by Anonymous 1 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 Sallyschmitt 1 week ago

It's called a needle drop.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Was the song added after the scene or was the scene made for the song?

by Anonymous 1 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-Cable3030 1 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-Month88 1 week ago

Kingsman church scene enters the chat

by Anonymous 1 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-Ad 1 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-8602 1 week ago

All I can think is the Sopranos episode with Tracy and how "Living on a Thin Line" really enhanced the scene.

by fdonnelly 1 week ago

Have you seen goodfellas? Assume you have but that entire movie has bangers that fit the scene so well.

by Maryboyle 1 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-Scientist 1 week ago

Movies that do that more often than not are pretty mediocre films.

by Anonymous 1 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 IndependenceAware 1 week ago

I love when old songs are in movies instead of recent ones

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I agree. I just said this recently. Can't stand the use of "80s music" in movies

by halvorsonpat 1 week ago

that's marketing to you right there lmao

by Ok-Return7547 1 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_Fan 1 week ago

FYI it's called a needle drop.

by Forsaken-Hair-871 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah but that was immigrant song a song about Vikings.

by Novel_Station 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

I kinda agree… I like when it's a cover of a popular song though. Idk why

by townemarjory 1 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 Ricefredy 1 week ago

Same. Especially if it's pop "genre" music. Totally ruins any vibe the movie had.

by Kuhncamron 1 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.

by Anonymous 1 week ago