BE: Streetlight People & Pop Sops

[Joe Allonby]

Long before its use on the Sopranos, that goddawful chunk of gibberish
was a fixture on many jukeboxes. People too young to know the song
from its original go round revived it to sing along ironically in
bars. The the irony got misplaced. It is like an icepick to the ear,
up and down the boulevard.


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Rev'd Seventy-Six <revd.76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>