Not just a song that can be found in the archives, but one that almost everyone can hum, even today.

(Somebody asked what was meant by “today’s…” Throw whatever you want out, somebody tossed out “Love me tender” as being a tune from in the 1860s.)

  • lud@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    It’s not overused, it’s just used a lot (not that I have heard it in anyway)

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      4 months ago

      “O Fortuna” has been called “the most overused piece of music in film history”, and Harper’s Magazine columnist Scott Horton has commented that “Orff’s setting may have been spoiled by its popularization” and its use “in movies and commercials often as a jingle, detached in any meaningful way from its powerful message.”

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Fortuna

      I’m not the one that called it that.