[ SECRET POST #5913 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5913 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Clockwise from top left: Worm, The Flower That Bloomed Nowhere, Shootaround]



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[Octopath Traveler 2]



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Comments

[fscom]

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[philstar22]

Oh, this song. I really, really don't like this song. And it shows up all the time.

[(Anonymous)]

Totally agree!!! Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version of Over the Rainbow has been similarly ruined for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Was it not used that way in Shrek? Because if that was supposed to be completely sincere, I read that scene wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

I read it as sincere and strangely, think it worked there. Maybe because that's one of the first movies I ever heard it used in, and it was used a during a serious moment even though the movie was mainly a comedy.

[meadowphoenix]

it was sincere-ironic, in that Fiona and Skrek are sincerely miserable, but there was an element of farce to it being used for a ogre who would hate it, a donkey and a dragon love story, and a princess pushing down her groom's figure on the wedding cake for accuracy.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not even Leonard Cohen's best song! He wrote tons of others!

(I was unreasonably delighted when OFMD went with "Avalanche" instead)

[(Anonymous)]

I would definitely love more Famous Blue Raincoat

[(Anonymous)]

Tori Amos did a nice cover of it.

[(Anonymous)]

I like his last hit - "You Want It Darker"
It's so good!

[greghousesgf]

I agree, it really is overused.

[tabaqui]

YES, omg. It's not a bad song at all, but I am sick to death of it.

Also pretty sick of the new (?) trend to take a happy or at least positive song and slow it way down and make it 'creepy' or 'sad' or whatever. Meh.

[scissorsevered]

Especially if the happy/positive song happens to be a childrens song/nursery rhyme. Basically a bunch of people on tiktok that got a microphone and basic editing software and decided they wanted to be Melanie Martinez.

Martinez's lyrics aren't exactly well crafted or subtle, but at least her style was relatively original.

[tabaqui]

YES, omg, this.

[(Anonymous)]

God. I recently began jamming Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" to help me through my life, and I wanted to punch a wall when there was a grimdark edgy gravelly cover of that song for IIRC the new Fast and Furious movie when I went to go watch a movie last weekend. Just come out with an original song goddamnit!!

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SA
*Fast and Furious trailer

[tabaqui]

Oh, blech. That's just not right.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was supposed to be inappropriate and for the lulz in Watchmen? It's ages since I saw it though, I might not be remembering it right.

[sabotabby]

It’s one of the more appropriate uses, during the world’s most awkward sex scene.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I got "serious and kind of sad for the characters but awkward and pathetic for the audience to watch" from it.

[(Anonymous)]

That's completely intentional, I'm pretty sure.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT--exactly! I had my issues with the movie, but the song choices were all on point.

[(Anonymous)]

Is Hallelulah cringe in that scene? Yes, but my issue is that they couldn't be bothered to use the original song, which was Billie Holliday's "You're My Thrill".

[(Anonymous)]

Funny story about this song - my city has dinner theater where they put on shows and just shoehorn in random songs (sometimes this works, most of the time it doesn't!).

One show, Rock and Roll Heaven had the angel of Leonard Cohen singing this, and they absolutely cut out all the best parts and sanitized it to hell.

Then again, they did the same to Angel George Harrison and My Sweet Lord. I wanted to yell "sing the whole songs you cowards!"

[selfcrownedqueen]

I agree that "Hallelujah" is overused, but I feel like it's already used inappropriately much of the time, like when The Voice cast sang it to honor the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting and just about every telethon it's been performed at. It's usage often has the same vibe as when conservatives really like "Born in the USA," you know what I mean? At least with Watchmen it felt like the weirdness and awkwardness was intentional and even if it wasn't, it still makes more sense to me than most other uses.