burntcopper | Hmm. Most odd.

You know how a song gets played on the end of a tv show to heighten the poignancy/horror/etc, and if it's good, it'll get stuck in your head? Was humming the two chorus lines over and over today after the song was played on the last ep of The Shield, my baby of violent corrupt cop shows. Was one I vaguely knew, but otherwise... not something that you hear on the radio. Did a search on the lyrics, found out it was 'Overcome' by Live, and *then* discovered from comments on the searches that it was the nation's favourite 911 song in the US. Cue me going 'wheh?' Because I now associate it with pictures of Vic Mackey and the Strike Team getting away with the Armenian Money Train job, aftermath of Julian getting gay-bashed by fellow cops, Alvarez winning the preliminaries, and Danny trying to figure out what the fuck she's going to do with her life now she's no longer a cop.

Of course, Danny's going to get pulled back onto the force what with Julian's gay bashing and him being her partner come season 3, so I'm not too worried about that, but still, odd dichotomy of the uses of a song. And listening to the MP3 I've just dl'd.

ETA : The singer is such a fucking drama queen whilst singing this. Michael Bolton much? On The Shield, they just used the middle part...