Weird things happen when the music industry and the movie industry collide. Sometimes through contractual obligation, simple oversight, or sheer negligence, a movie is paired with a song that just isn’t appropriate. This is about a brief six-year trend of weird end-credits songs – songs that just don’t read the room. Thematically, the list could be […]
Comically smoochy end-credits movie ballads (1989-1995) Read More »
Early childhood generates some of our most powerful memories. We remember the first instances of joy, disgust, fright and love. In a matter of years we find ourselves subject to greater emotional depths, and our memories correspondingly become more complex. I’d argue that as soon as we’re old enough to form a truly vivid memory,
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Choosing songs for your wedding dance can be perilous. You’re kind of marrying the song, as well. You’re wedding your identity to it. This is who we are. The one thing you want to avoid is selecting music that secretly undermines your union. ‘Every Breath You Take’ is probably the most famous trap: a stalker’s
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No one likes to be put in a box, to have their identity narrowly defined by someone else. But it can be liberating to put yourself in a box, if that means packing up an old identity and moving on, to a new place or a new life. What you leave behind can be telling.
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What happens when you assume a shared cultural experience, only to discover it doesn’t exist? In 2020, one man’s frustration that his wife did not remember a 90s pop hit triggered one of the most acclaimed podcast episodes ever. The team at Reply All were eventually able to track down the missing song for Tyler
Greatest Headcanon Hits: 3 singles I believed were massive Read More »
We all want clear lines of succession and shared rules for the peaceful transfer of power. But focusing on protocol can make us lose sight of the job at hand… Joe Biden’s inauguration as President of the United States took place under extraordinary circumstances. One of many idiosyncrasies that day: he took the oath of
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