Sometimes the treatment of a song you're familiar with can be shown in a new light and change your opinion of it.
Examples:
George Thorogood, "Bad to the Bone" (1982) - started as a decent rock/blues song, but became a cliche in movies and trailers, up there with Walking on Sunshine and Born to be Wild.
Walking on Sunshine (1986 or so) - annoyed when it was on the radio, but Fry from Futurama likes it, so it's OK now. (This was on our set list, so don't tell the others in my college band :-)
Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Freebird" (1970s) - got a lottttt of airplay on classic rock stations, got bored of it, but the church scene in the first Kingsman movie goes perfectly with the solo section (G, B-flat, C) and gives the song new life. The clip is quite violent, won't link it here, but it's on Youtube.
Tiktok, The Oh No Song (195?/2020) - "b-b-but it's actually a good song, by the Shondells or Shangri-Las or whoever!" - no, sorry, Tiktok ruined it. It's not fair, but I was originally indifferent to the original, and now I dislike it too.
My opinion on Bye Bye Bye changed after it was used in the TVA fight scene in Deadpool & Wolverine. Now I associate with the movie instead of an annoying Boy Band song my sister used to play in high school.
I didn't really care for Go West's "King of Wishful Thinking" when it was first on the radio. Later on, when I got to see Pretty Woman when it came out, I heard the song in the movie, and for some reason I warmed up to it. I'm not sure why I didn't care for the song before, and why the change after. Maybe it helped to have some visual to go with that song (?).
Kind of the reverse; I used to despise disco's empty words and Hollywood tends to stuff it into a singular trope.
But actually, the less overplayed examples are good fun in small doses, and sometimes production is nicely multi-layered. Just don't take it too seriously and try to place it on a pedestal.
Baltimora - Tarzan Boy. I liked it more once they put it in the Listerine commercial
Black Sabbath's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" sounded great to me as a pissed off depressed teen, it said a lot of what I was feeling about life. Then as an adult I learned the song was about Sabbath's dealing with shitty management and record companies like hundreds and hundreds of other songs made by just about every major label artist at some point, and it completely changed my view of it.
The entire Queen and Led Zeppelin catalogs. I was not a fan of either band in my early high school years, but I became a Zeppelin fan in my senior year of high school and a fan of Queen my freshman year of college.
My father liked Fleetwood Mac, but he soured on "Don't Stop" after the Clinton campaign used it in 1992 and everyone started calling it "Bill Clinton's song." (With that said, using it at the convention was quite astute politically compared to the Bush campaign's use of the same old patriotic chestnuts like "God Bless America." The Fleetwood Mac song felt like a breath of fresh air.)
My personal 'stock price' for 'Wouldn't It be Nice' by the Beach Boys fell a lot after Michael Moore used it in 'Roger and Me'.
Mike
Bob Dylan's "Hurricane" now remind me of the scene from the movie Dazed and Confused where Wooderson, Pink and Mitch entered the Emporium.
Quote from: mgk920 on October 12, 2024, 10:52:35 AMMy personal 'stock price' for 'Wouldn't It be Nice' by the Beach Boys fell a lot after Michael Moore used it in 'Roger and Me'.
Mike
Pretty stark reason why, if you watch the movie.