Five years ago, I made a list of movie trailers featuring sad covers of pop songs.
Here are 15 more recent examples — and I didn’t even include the Justice League Snyder Cut trailer featuring “Hallelujah,” because that’s not a cover.
At this point, the use of sad pop covers in trailers has gone on so long that my observing the trend is in and of itself a trend.
In 2020, the use of sad pop songs in commercials shows no signs of abating — and it’s spread from movie trailers to advertisements for all kinds of things.
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War of the Spark Official Trailer – Magic: The Gathering