# What background music should I choose for this 1 minute video?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-background-music-should-i-choose-for-this-1-minute-video/420812
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 28, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-background-music-should-i-choose-for-this-1-minute-video/420812 "2007-09-28T14:22:10Z")
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### Author:  [@aaelghat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaelghat)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-background-music-should-i-choose-for-this-1-minute-video/420812/1 "2007-09-28T14:22:10Z")
I own a company that provides a service that lets people capture and preserve their thoughts, stories, and memories from any telephone. There’s a merchant directory that I’ll be listed in that lets the store owners embed a 1 minute video for consumers to play. Most merchants are local, so they talk in their offices, stores, etc.
I didn’t want to do that (and I don’t have an office or store), so I did a little flash movie instead. The movie can be found here: [Flash Movie](http://www.lifeonrecord.com/flashmovie.html)
In reality it will play in a little window that’s 265 x 220 pixels which is why it’s so small. Although I’d welcome feedback on the movie, I’d really like some advice on what background music to play. Since it’s only a minute long, I don’t know if I can get away with using commercial music, or if I’d have to find music which has no copyright.
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-background-music-should-i-choose-for-this-1-minute-video/420812/2 "2007-09-28T15:43:10Z")
Find out about the copyright, because that’s key.
But I would pick something optimistic without being sappy. Something in a major key but with an edge and with forward momentum.
Elevator music is your enemy.
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### Author:  [@aaelghat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaelghat)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-background-music-should-i-choose-for-this-1-minute-video/420812/3 "2007-09-28T15:57:28Z")
How about this…
I found some music on [freeplaymusic.com](http://freeplaymusic.com) which is royalty free. If you click the link again, you’ll hear the music along with the movie. Do you think it has the right tempo? Do the words move along too quickly to really absorb?
[http://www.lifeonrecord.com/flashmovie.html](http://www.lifeonrecord.com/flashmovie.html)
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### Author:  [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-background-music-should-i-choose-for-this-1-minute-video/420812/4 "2007-09-28T16:09:17Z")
A segment from _Ride of the Valkyries_ is always appropriate.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-background-music-should-i-choose-for-this-1-minute-video/420812/5 "2007-09-28T17:08:02Z")
[QUOTE=aaelghat]
How about this…
I found some music on [freeplaymusic.com](http://freeplaymusic.com) which is royalty free. If you click the link again, you’ll hear the music along with the movie. Do you think it has the right tempo? Do the words move along too quickly to really absorb?
> **[Flash Movie](https://www.lifeonrecord.com/flashmovie.html)**
[/QUOTE]
I’ll have to check it out when I get home, although my home computer has decided that its mad at me and is not speaking to me. Fucker.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-background-music-should-i-choose-for-this-1-minute-video/420812/6 "2007-09-28T19:03:40Z")
I think it’s very nice.
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### Author:  [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-background-music-should-i-choose-for-this-1-minute-video/420812/7 "2007-09-28T23:35:44Z")
I really like that, it’s optimistic yet… sentimental? Maybe not the right word, but I think it fits well.