handsbloodyhands wrote: Tue Oct 17, 2023 12:31 pm
Every movie or TV trailer plays a slow atmospheric weepy synth cover of some 70/80/90s rock song. I don't like it.
Sometimes it's piano, but the same concept. I think it all started with that one cover of Tears for Fears' Mad World being used in that video game ad. Now it's just another annoying trope.
matttkkkk wrote: Tue Oct 17, 2023 12:59 pm
Blame
Donnie Darko
Hahahaha. Well, I suppose that's a more concise way of saying the same thing.
Another trope that's been getting on my nerves lately is the uber newscaster English endemic to the "pop that pretends its indee/totally not anime intro music" genre that finds its way into coffee shops, grocery store muzak, and "kind and sensitive" tech commercials. The accent where every "r" is ultra-accented and every dipthong is a grand canyon of "for fuck's sake please stop it." It's like sometime in the early 2000s a bunch of hipster bands started using this particular voice and it became a shorthand for the "totally indee" music that the big record companies put on their side labels.