Five overused songs that nobody needs to hear in a movie again
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A fantastic soundtrack can be a real game-changer for a movie, turning a good scene into a great one.
The problem is, once a song proves to be successful in a movie, it won’t take long until it rocks up in another film, trying to manipulate you into feeling the emotions you felt when it played in the previous one. Yet, when a song becomes so iconic within a film that has already been released, it’s never going to have the same effect when it crops up in several more; it just gets old.
That somehow doesn’t stop plenty of movies from recycling the same songs, even if they do just play into clichés. It’s always disappointing when you’re watching a good movie, only for it to fall into the safety of one of the most popular classical pieces of all time, or riffing off a famous musical moment that already exists. Where is the originality? How is anyone going to remember your film when you’ve used the same song as everyone else?
So, from classic rom-com hits to overdone classical numbers, here are five songs that we’d be happy never to hear in a movie again.
