First of all, let me say that music today is in about the saddest shape EVER! Daniel Powter, James Blunt, even our current American Idle, Taylor “WHOOO!” Hicks–I don’t think the music charts have been this chock full of wussy suckage since the heyday of Dan Fogelberg or Seals and Crofts!
But obviously it wasn’t enough for the industry to make our fucking ears bleed from just the radio…NOOOO! Now they’ve polluted the TV airwaves with more of this testicularly challenged generic puss-fest! I mean, EVERY TV drama has to end with some pseudo-folkie singing some sad song about lost love, loneliness, my fucking shoes hurt, whatever.
I never thought I’d miss Iggy Pop rolling in broken glass so much! What’s up with this putrid pablum…and does ANYONE actually listen to this shit?
From reading the thread title, I thought you were annoyed by some production company’s jingle, like the As Time Goes By snippet Warner Bros. uses, or Paramount’s Star Wars ripoff. I didn’t realize you meant “the end of a show” as in the end of a show’s action.
I blame The OC for goading this trend to near-universality. But yeah, it’s mostly a reflection of the current popularity of wussy emo balladeering in general.
Why does the music “scene” and the charts matter? I listen to the music I like. I continue to like that music regardless of what is and is not popular. The existence of Taylor Hicks (about whom I know nothing, positive or negative) in no way interferes with my ability to listen to, for instance, the soundtrack from Rent.
I think that might have been a few years later. Party of Five would definitely have been a precursor though (with Mathew Fox playing a mopey brooding 20-something head of the household instead of a mopey brooding doctor on a weird island)
