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So you're leaning back in your comfy theater chair, next to your significant other, munching on overpriced lobby snacks, when the [[Coming Attractions|previews]] come on. The first opens with some dramatic [[In a World]] narration about the [[Earth-That-Was]]...but wait a minute. That music sure sounds familiar. "[[Requiem for Aa Dream|Requiem for]] [[Lord of the Rings|a Tower]]", again? The next trailer is for some run-of-the-mill PG-rated [[Eddie Murphy]] [[Toilet Humor]] kiddy comedy. It's "I Feel Good" by James Brown! [[Seen It a Million Times|Again!]]
 
This is a common movie trailer trope. Simply put, many editors of trailers find it easy to use famous songs to elicit a specific mood within a two- or three-minute duration.
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* Saliva's "Click Click Boom" is there for the prospective trailer editor who wants an [[Totally Radical|X-Treme atmosphere]] for chugging Mountain Dew.
* From 1999 until a few years into the [[Turn of the Millennium]], "All Star" by Smashmouth was in ''every'' ad for ''everything'' ever. Those ads included the trailers for the ''[[Digimon]]'' movie, the ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' movie, and ''[[Shrek]]''.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlAHZURxRjY "Song 2"] [[Blur (Musicband)|by Blur]] - also a [[Standard Snippet]] in action scenes, particularly extreme sports.
* Want music for the trailer of your TV show? Is this week's episode particularly dramatic? [[Florence and Thethe Machine|"You've Got the Love".]] Done.
** Also [[Adele|"Set Fire to the Rain"]], especially on Lifetime.
* For a while around 2005-2006, any song by The Fray ("Over My Head", "How to Save a Life") was common in trailers for dramatic shows like ''[[GreysGrey's Anatomy]]''.
* "Firework" by [[Katy Perry]] has been used in the trailers for both ''[[Prom]]'' and ''Soul Surfer''.
* When it first came out, "Tik Tok" by [[Kesha]] was popular in trailers for kids movies.
** Yeah, because that's such a kids' song.
* At least three movies have used the [[David Bowie]] / [[Queen]] collaboration "Under Pressure" in their trailers -- ''[[Stepmom]]'' (in fact, it was used in that film's opening sequence too), ''The Girl Next Door'', and the ''[[Arthur (Filmfilm)|Arthur]]'' remake (its trailer also used another Bowie number -- "Rebel Rebel"), so we can rest assured the protagonists are under pressure. Never mind that the pressure the song is discussing is that of dealing with a world gone mad, rather than raising stepkids or romantic travails.
* "Solsbury Hill" by [[Peter Gabriel]] seems to be the go-to song for "feel good movie" trailers. Odd, since it's a rather bitter song about Gabriel leaving [[Genesis (Musicband)|Genesis]].
* KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See" was used in ''[[The Devil Wears Prada]]'', and ever since has been used in various trailers for movies, TV, and commercials, usually in scenes where women are empowered. It was even parodied by ''Best Week Ever'' in 2008, which played it with scenes of women working in sweatshops.
 
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