Music

[serafina20]

So, I don't get what's up with the music on Stray. It's like whoever chose the songs just chose for pretty and didn't listen to the words.

Let's start with Five for Fighting's "Superman." I think it's a pretty song. It pretty much inspired my take on Clark for Corner of the World: a young man with great power and awesome abilities who doesn't really want them. He realizes that his powers are going to isolate him. Or, it's just a song about a hero who's tired. A little lonely and morose, who just wants to rest, but can't becuse he/she feels great responsiblity. At any rate, it's a pretty meloncholy song.

So, why are they playing it at the end of "Stray" which seems to be all about new beginnigns. Yes, now we all know it turned to crap, but then Ryan was meeting his aunt who was a 'nice person' and looking forward to living a normal life. No, I don't think the writers knew Ryan was dying at that point. Even if they did, the song didn't fit. It was pretty, but they should have had another pretty son.

And then, I finally heard the lyrics the song played when Clark and Ryan played basketball for the first time. It was "Lonely Day," and one of my favorite songs on the Smallville soundtrack. WtF?

/ I could tell from the minute I woke up
it was going to be a lonely, lonely lonely lonely day
Rise and shine, rub the sleep out of my eyes
and try to tell myself I can't go back to bed/

Does that sound like an appropriate song to play while Ryan and Clark are making friends and feeling brotherly? Ryan finally has a place wher he belongs and Clark gets to be a big brother and have somone look up to him? Once again, the melody was nice, but the song itself did not fit!

I don't understand Smallville sometimes.

Comments

[grlnamedlucifer.livejournal.com]

I think sometimes they pick music where the melody and lyrics fit (Heat, Insurgence, and Pilot come to mind) and then sometimes they pick music that's crap-alt-rock or where only the melody fits. But you can't do both, cause then the audience expects it to be consistant and it isn't. Course, that describes SV perfectly so that fits. ^_-

Plus, I think they were required by law to include that Superman song *sometime* during the season and couldn't find anyplace to put it so stuck it there.

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

The "Superman" song would have fit great in "Ryan" during the balloon flight, because for the first time, Clark _couldn't_ save someone. But they jumped the gun, sadly. *sigh*