'Fleabag' and 'Always Be My Maybe' used the same song in two very different ways
Some songs, like that one that TV shows always use to make us cry, make their way through different movies and series, but they can be used in very different ways.
Like "Sail" by American group Awolnation, which has been perfectly deployed in both Phoebe Waller-Bridge's popular series, Fleabag, and Ali Wong and Randall Park's Netflix film, Always Be My Maybe, as highlighted by a Twitter video by digital strategist William Yu.
In Fleabag, the song is used to open Season 1, episode 2, in a surrealist scene on the London Tube, when commuters surrounding the protagonist seem to react in extreme pain or laughter to the beat, quickly switching back to their regular expressions.
In Always Be My Maybe, the song is used in a glorious scene featuring the one and only Keanu Reeves, who makes a rather dramatic, slow-motion entrance as a dreamy romantic interest of Wong's character, Sasha. The scene is the stuff GIF dreams are made of.
Both scenes use Awolnation's song "Sail", but in very different ways as Yu's edit shows. One is pretty weird and disturbing, the other downright hilarious.
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In case you're wondering, it's not the only time the song has been used in TV, with appearances in The Walking Dead, Pretty Little Liars, The Good Wife, and The Vampire Diaries among other things.
Anyway, pretty cool splicing. Same song, different vibe. It's like that other song you've heard in every TV show.
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Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.
