yes, it's been forever since i last posted. i find that since i'm writing for a living now, i don't have as many words in me for blogs anymore. but this blog has been rattling around in my head for ages now, so it's about time that i get it out!
i completely love cameron crowe. he's talented, observant, married to a rock star, and he's made some of my all-time favorite films. he uses music so well in his movies....but sometimes, for me, he does it too well. because now whenever i hear some of those songs, all i can picture is the scene in the movie that the song was used in -- and it has obliterated all previous emotion that i had for the song.
the best example of this? when lloyd "lloyd all null and void" dobler holds up his boombox outside of diane's bedroom window in say anything, blaring "in your eyes" by peter gabriel. an amazing moment in the movie, and an amazing song.... which i now only associate with that movie. my own memories of that song have been bogarted.
cameron did it again in almost famous, when the stillwater tour bus riders all sing along to elton john's "tiny dancer."
my first memory of this happening was at the end of sixteen candles, when jake goes to the church after the wedding to see sam..... all the station wagons pull away and there he is, standing by his red porsche.... and the thompson twins' "if you were here" is playing. sure, it's one of my favorite movies of all time. but now i can't hear the song without remembering the movie!
those three examples are all really sweet scenes in lovely movies. what about the songs that are used in a more negative way?
what about the beginning of the silence of the lambs when the chick who would later be kicked off greys anatomy for being slightly too realistically gay is driving her truck singing along to "american girl" by tom petty? then later on she "places the lotion in the basket....."
and the scene in reservoir dogs where mr. blonde is cutting off pieces of the cop and dancing around to "stuck in the middle with you" by stealers wheel? yack.
so, i pose this question to you, both of my readers -- what songs have the movies ruined for you?
4 comments:
Definitely "In Your Eyes." The movie is great, but the song is phenomenal. The movie connection devalues the song a little bit.
The song "Collide" by Howie Day has been used in so many TV shows that I can barely listen to it anymore, even though I loved it long before I heard it on TV. I can't think of a show I watch that hasn't used it. :)
Becky2323
Wombat, nice to have you back.
As a huge metalhead in my youth, I would have to pick Iron Man, from of course, Iron Man
becky, i don't know the howie day song. but i'm sure i'll hear it 4 million times now.
cody! nice to see your top-secret behind passwords and firewalls self, too!
can't believe i forgot the worst offender ever -- the cars moving in stereo in fast times at ridgemont high.
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