# Songs that nearly ruin a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559 "2007-10-22T14:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/41 "2007-10-23T20:23:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Madonna doesn’t sing a note and nearly ruins Die Another Day when she appears in the gentlemen’s club. She does sing, though – that’s her performing the title song. To my mind, easily the worst Bond theme ever. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/42 "2007-10-23T20:41:18Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] Same here–I came of age in the early 80s and it’s just right. Miami Vice, Scarface, Streets of Fire… [/QUOTE] Heh. I was _born_ in the early 80s (actually, I was born the year after “Scarface” was released). And yet somehow I still have a thing for that kind of music. So much for those crazy kids and their newfangled music. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/43 "2007-10-23T20:49:39Z")
[QUOTE=Zoggie] Heh. I was _born_ in the early 80s (actually, I was born the year after “Scarface” was released). And yet somehow I still have a thing for that kind of music. So much for those crazy kids and their newfangled music. [/QUOTE] Perhaps your Mom listened to it when you were in utero? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/44 "2007-10-23T22:47:19Z")
Khia’s raunchy sex rap “My Neck, My Back” in the middle of _The Door in the Floor_ as a crying Jeff Bridges sings along. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/45 "2007-10-23T23:07:11Z")
I liked the soundtrack to LadyHawke! But, I will admit that it is impossible to ignore, though, so if you don’t like it, you’ll hate it. I also liked the soundtrack to A Knight’s Tale, which was meant to inflect the kind of feeling in the modern audience that modern music invoked in the past. Thus the raucous “We Will Rock You” at the joust, and Bowie’s modern, edgy “Golden Years” at the banquet, where all the young, rich and hip came to see and be seen. I thought the “Tiny Dancer” scene in Almost Famous was pretty damn cheesy. Why that song, of all songs? Why not something more like the music the band played? Why not hear their OWN song playing on the radio, a symbol of their growing success that could bring them together? WHY TINY DANCER? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/46 "2007-10-23T23:16:14Z")
[QUOTE=Zoggie] You thought that [Que Sera, Sera] was a bad choice? I thought it was perfect. It was an innocent song with a very twisted backdrop. And apparently, the rest of the world liked it, too. [/QUOTE] Nope, I’m with the OP. The song is meh…harmless 50’s pop, and the first time it’s sung is marginally acceptable. But writing a reprise into the script, and requiring that Doris Day \*shout \*it, was sadistic and a grating interruption to an otherwise good movie. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/47 "2007-10-23T23:18:27Z")
[QUOTE=Ghanima] …I thought the “Tiny Dancer” scene in Almost Famous was pretty damn cheesy. Why that song, of all songs? Why not something more like the music the band played? Why not hear their OWN song playing on the radio, a symbol of their growing success that could bring them together? WHY TINY DANCER? [/QUOTE] Cause the song is kinda about a groupie? ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/48 "2007-10-23T23:29:22Z")
Vangelis’ music in _Chariots of Fire_. I don’t mind so much the kind of iconic music when they run on the beach. But at other points in the movie, i.e. the race in the courtyard, the new agey, synth sound just does not mesh well with the early 1900’s sensibilities of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/49 "2007-10-24T13:19:11Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] ‘Aqua-Marina’ always ruined the ending of ‘Stingray’ for me. What…? [/QUOTE] No, no, I hear you - almost _Loveboat_-theme-ey. \*“Marina…Aqua-Marina” \*. Certainly shite compared to the excellent _Thunderbirds_ theme. Or even the _Stingray_ opener, with the horn section. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/50 "2007-10-24T13:37:57Z")
[QUOTE=It’s Not Rocket Surgery!] “Can You Read My Mind” from the first Reeve _Superman_ movie. Yuck. Also, double yuck. [/QUOTE] Great choice, and along this line, I hated the **Batman** sequence with The Joker and his minions getting into mischief to a Prince song, complete with characters bringing a boom box into the scene. Every time I see a character walk into frame with a boom box, I die a little inside.\* I have a lot of problems with that movie anyway, but I might be more forgiving if that scene wasn’t so painful. \*except in **Do the Right Thing**. That was OK. ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/51 "2007-10-24T18:08:18Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Madonna doesn’t sing a note and nearly ruins _Die Another Day_ when she appears in the gentlemen’s club. [/QUOTE] Ooo, Madonna! How about _At Close Range_? It seemed like the same four notes from “Live to Tell” were in the background of every scene. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/52 "2007-10-24T18:35:18Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Really? I’ve watched it on BBC America and I don’t really recall that. Maybe they changed it? [/QUOTE] Oooohhhh yeah, it’s in every episode and once my dad pointed it out it annoyed me every time. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/53 "2007-10-24T18:53:47Z")
[QUOTE=Darth Vader’s Little Pal] Every time I see a character walk into frame with a boom box, I die a little inside.\* … \*except in **Do the Right Thing**. That was OK. [/QUOTE] The boom box in **DTRT** is different, as it was crucial to the plot in and of itself. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/54 "2007-10-24T19:01:38Z")
[QUOTE=Darth Vader’s Little Pal] Every time I see a character walk into frame with a boom box, I die a little inside.\* \*except in **Do the Right Thing**. That was OK. [/QUOTE] What about _Say Anything_? ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/55 "2007-10-24T21:59:59Z")
A Knight’s Tale wasn’t ruined anymore by its score than a concoction of hemlock would be ruined by adding a touch too much paprika. However , the sappy song (Show Me Your World?) from Aladdin was painful to endure in an otherwise pretty fun movie. ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559/56 "2007-10-25T04:45:25Z")
“Bella Notte” in _Lady and the Tramp_. It’s not that bad, but it’s WAY overused; it pops up a half dozen times in that movie! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-nearly-ruin-a-movie/423559.md?page=2)