Now for the record, I love trailers. Some are good and some are bad and usually they’re just slapped together sloppily to promote the movie. But the best trailers are the ones that don’t give the movie away. “The Exorcist”, “Night of the Living Dead”, “Psycho”, those are trailers that didn’t give the movies away, and the most essential part of a trailer like the movie is the music.

Compiled is a list of songs I’m begging Hollywood to retire from movie trailers that decrease the value of the movie and ruin the experience. Let me tell you what triggered my meltdown. I was at home watching "Cinenews", a program I watch to keep up with upcoming movies. It's a great show, and at the end of the program they feature a trailer for a movie coming soon. Up comes the trailer for "Monster-in-Law" and during the trailer on comes a commonly used song and something just snapped. These songs need to be retired for the love of humanity, I mean I'm not saying these songs suck, as a matter of fact, some of the songs I’m about to list, I love--but god retire them before they start sucking! Does modern music suck so bad they just have to keep re-using this stuff again and again?! A lot of these songs have been used constantly in romances and romantic comedies, and I’m sure there are plenty more romantic songs that could be used.

Music is essential to the mood of the movie. It sets forth the atmosphere and increases tension the filmmakers are trying to convey to the audience. Rock, hip hop, symphony music, it’s all been used, and some trailers use music to help increase the mood of the movie, much recently the trailer to “Dawn of the Dead” remake which had an amazing music score, and “Haute Tension” which is a good trailer, but dear god, there have been songs that have been used over and over and over for the past decade that I just can not hear anymore, and there are certain songs I'd love to think of without unwillingly associating it with yet another crappy Jennifer Lopez film, or cookie cutter romantic comedy. So to Hollywood I’m asking: