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20 Most Annoyingly Over-Used Movie Trailer Songs By AwesomeBalla [13 more lists]
These are the songs that make you roll your eyes in theatres, change the channel or even put the TV on mute when you hear them come on in movie trailers.
Some are actually fantastic and beautifully written songs that have been ruined by overexposure; some are inexplicably popular songs that need to die immediately.
- 1We have no idea how this song even came to fruition. Who thought this was cool? The song itself even starts out kind of badass (imagine you'd never heard it before) and then goes on to get really really friendly. It was actually a huge hit on Radio Disney for YEARS.
But seriously, we have no idea who possibly thought it was a good idea to spend time and money and actually use their names, faces and voices to make such a stupid and horribly annoying song.
Songs like these usually go away... songs like these usually go away! *Rocks back and forth* Songs like these usually go away.
But not this one. It first came out in 1999, started being used in trailers then... and it STILL. IS.
The worst part is that now any kids' movie with a dog and/or men behaving like dogs, or even just fun, light-hearted family films has this in the trailer.
The ultimate one-hit wonder song, "Who Let the Dogs Out" can r**e your ears in everything from "The Hangover" to "Shallow Hal" to "Rugrats in Paris: The Movie." and graces such trailers as the one embedded here, where it is arguably most distastefully used.
Here's your token "dogs are on the screen so let's get the shitty tropical dog song" moment from the "Snow Dogs" trailer at 0:50 to the left. -
- 2Just gonna put this out there, and although we don't wanna rock any boats, we'll be the first ones to admit it. You know what? We HATE this song. By "we", I mean "the thinking people of America".
And I think it's because of how Hollywood has saturated every part of our lives with this song. It's in video games, television and movies like "Digimon: The Movie", "Inspector Gadget," seemingly every single Shrek movie and "Mystery Men" (where they apparently had enough people on staff who smoked crack that they decided to make this the theme of their movie).
We would donate our dozens of dollars to charity to never have to hear this song in a movie (or life) ever again. - 3Those first few notes immediately call to mind images of suburban angst masked in a plume of cigarette smoke and algebra homework. Thanks, Hollywood, I'm sure that's exactly the image that George had in his mind when creating that kick-ass guitar riff.
Either that or bikers in late 80s, early 90s movies. And more recently cartoons. Seems as H-wood realizes that songs are used up, they throw them more and more in to kiddie films, where nobody will judge them for their lazy song choice.
Dubbed the unofficial theme of "Problem Child" and used in the opening credits of "Major Payne," the song's cinematic resume is depressing at best, especially now that a lot of movies that involve some kind of "cool dog" use it willy nilly ("bone", get it? Dogs like bones! And they're "bad" to the bones because they eat them!), when they aren't using "Who Let the Dogs Out," of course.
Here is basically the way it's used in trailers: "Guess what? Our main character is bad. Freaking. Ass. And he don't give a fudge WHO gets in his way... *puts on mirrored sunglasses, turns back*"
Here's the trailer for Problem Child, where this song is abused for one of the first times ever, back when it was cool:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWx6O6i_eQ
Embedded here, for no good reason, is an example of how lame this song has become. The kid in Problem Child was ACTUALLY bad ass... now it's in Lindsay Lohan movies (circa-Disney), back before the drogas, boobs and tabloid tailspin. -
- 4Carnival of the Animals, VII Aquarium, is the perfect example of one of those movie trailer songs that you have no idea what it is but it's in all movie trailers needing a mystical and mythical musical background. Anything playfully mysterious or even slightly (but gothically) ethereal will have this song at the beginning of its trailer.
An actually lovely song, Aquarium is just one part of a larger collection of music but seems to be the one part that every movie trailer maker latches on to (perhaps they all have a lucky number seven). Kind of like the intense part of O Fortuna, which isn't included in this list because people really seem to have eased off the song in the last 5-10 years (thankfully).
Here's just one of the 637 billion trailers (we totally counted) out there that use "Aquarium."
And if you find the song just a bit too annoying, try listening to it while looking at fish (either real or on youtube), it really does sound like what an aquarium looks like. - 5Ah yes, the ubiquitous anthem of every ass kicking, bone breaking and tights-wearing action movie trailer. Why? Because it's obvious.
With such moving and thought provoking lyrics like "Let the bodies hit the floor.Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor."
Yeah, that's about it.
In any movie where bodies need to, or will be, hitting the floor you can bet your sweet ass that at some point you will hear the brutally-metal voices of Drowning Pool letting you know that they're going to be allowing something, and that something is bodies hitting the god damn floor.
Skip to 1:19 in this trailer for "Jason X" to hear the satisfying thud of some bodies. Also used in Vin Diesel movies and crappy, not-going-to-make-their-money-back-in-theatres movies, which are essentially the same thing.
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Lux Aeterna at 8/15/2010 9:31 AM
Look near the end of the trailer and you will hear it.
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Every Little Thing She Does is Magic at 8/15/2010 8:26 AM
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I hope that song burns in the everlasting Hellfire!
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I'm still traumatized by the 1990s, when every trailer seemed to feature Us3's "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" and/or Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn"...
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- the rock playing a baby sitter or the tooth fairy
- travolta, tim allen or robin williams playing a man with middle age crisis
- f**k the motorcycle and the boots.... it's a dog... as always
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- "Treat Her Right" by The Commitments (the part that goes "Hey! Hey! Hey! ba-nana na-na, ba-nana Hey! Hey! Hey!)
- "Dreams" by the Cranberries
Lux Aeterna at 8/16/2010 11:50 AM