BE: Streetlight People & Pop Sops

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

Series creator & showrunner David Chase liked shorthanding plot information
via soundtrack.  In the case of 'Don't Stop Believing', it was a
pitch-perfect encapsulation of how Tony saw his & his wife's Journey thru
the American Dream, as well as an unnerving note to end on, considering
Chase cut before the final "believing" to black silence.  It also provided
an additional prod to a viewership who didn't want to believe the series
could, or would, end that way.

Besides just being a fun & frequently profane show, Sopranos functioned as
a study of pre- & post-9/11 American ambition & identity, particularly our
very-American penchant for confusing the two, so there's that...
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