Props to the Will Ferrell Lifetime movie spoof A Deadly Adoption, one of the few trailers I know of with a satire of the sad cover trailer trend.
In May of 2016, I published a follow-up with even more sad cover trailers than the first list.
A subset of the movie trailer with a sad cover song is the trailer for the movie sequel with a sad, twinkly piano version of the previous films’ bombastic orchestral score.
In the years since our last list, Netflix has become one of the worst offenders in the sad cover trend.