Music licensing is a nightmare. Music licensing across international borders is a ridiculous surrealist nightmare from which you can never wake; if you should ever want to enter into such endeavors find the nearest cliff and try to fly as that will be a less painful adventure more likely to find success.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How is no one mentioning why there are two versions of a movie only differing in soundtrack…? Seems bizarre to me
finderscult@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A lot of TV shows had their music replaced when they went to streaming because of song licensing crap, so it wasn’t super surprising that it happened to a movie too.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 day ago
NBC and owners of scrubs were the worst for it. Scrubs had an iconic soundtrack that picked songs for the exact mood of the story, but then licenses expired and they just chose cheaper songs. I don’t care how much it costs, when “I will try to fix you” comes on I immediately start tearing up.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is why I have it pirated, as you say the soundtrack is a huge part of that show, just rewatched it again recently and I don’t even want to know what the streaming version is like.
Spezi@feddit.org 1 day ago
„American Girl“ when Elliot hooked up with JD was substituted by some royalty free salsa music. Just to give you a taste of it.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It would absolutely be surprising if you’ve never heard of that, which I hadn’t.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Video game re-releases too!
vodka@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Scrubs was absolutely ruined because of this.
The time I spent putting the broadcast audio onto the streaming/dvd/Blu-ray releases to make them watchable was significant.