This month, I’m looking back at movies and tv shows to rediscover songs that graced the screen. The scenes and the music are inseparable. They’re engrained in our heads and our hearts. And they’re proof that the best music we have doesn’t exist in isolation. It attaches itself to a moment or an experience. #SceneSongs
Show: The Sopranos
What an incredible voice. The things Steve Perry can do with his voice are incredible. He can belt it. He can go ballad. He has the vibrato. And he seems to have unlimited range, going higher and higher and higher. “Don’t Stop Believin’” is one of the most iconic songs of the eighties – a song that brings with it a deep sense of nostalgia for me. It has a way of lifting my spirits every time. And if I could sing remotely close to Perry’s key, I would be singing this all the time.
“Don’t Stop Believin’”, as great as it is, was a bit of an unexpected choice for the final scene of one of the greatest television shows in history. In a gut-wrenching scene, I could sense the end was near as Tony put a quarter into the jukebox at the diner to play the Journey anthem. Season after season, Tony’s family started to feel like family. To think of this scene as their final meal together is too much to swallow. The end scene was simultaneously too much and not enough.