Monte's streetlights people

[Mark Kohut]

Monte wrote and asked: 
I felt the need of an ambulance myself on learning that Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believin’(Preview) 
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Music video by Journey performing Don't Stop Believin'. (C) 1981 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment 
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‘ – source of the phrase “streetlight people” -- is “the top-selling catalog track in iTunes history with over 5 million digital copies sold, as well as the best-selling rock song in digital history. “ Why would Slagiatt and associates have chosen that then-20-year-old song?

I don't know the answer either, of course, but I will suggest two things. 1st, being so popular, TRP thinks it embodies insight into..us. them. them as us.? 

Also that the phrase below greatly appealed to him. We know something about TRP's streetlights trope and BE is sprinkled (filled?) with hints that the characters lack (some) emotions. First, all the televisual perceptions suggests Thanatoidsim, yes? 
And, some other examples of missing emotions coming up...

"Streetlights people, living just to find emotion"
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