21 Movies Whose Original Songs Completely Outshined the Movie
‘Iris’ by the Goo Goo Dolls is definitely more well-known than ‘City of Angels’
As much as film is a visual medium, the Billy Madison without that song about having anymore gum? On the flip side, can you imagine “My Heart Will Go On” without Titanic? That’s not the case for a lot of songs that have become comically divorced from their launching pad.
“One that comes to mind is “Scotty Doesn’t Know,” the Lustra song used for the movie Eurotrip,” Redditor David1258 told r/Movies. “Lustra’s song has an iconic guitar riff and is fairly well known worldwide, but not many people that movie.”
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They then asked, “What’s a song made for a movie that ended up suring the film itself in popularity?” This is what their fellow Redditors had to say on the matter…