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#Turn down the world tonight by journey series
It was the rally song for the Chicago White Sox in the team's 2005 World Series run, and it was the climax of the hit Broadway jukebox musical Rock of Ages. A string ensemble played it in the Adam Sandler comedy The Wedding Singer. "Don't Stop Believin'" has been heard on Scrubs, South Park and Family Guy. In 2009, the earnest high school show choir on Glee covered the song for the first of several times throughout the series' run, sending its download numbers through the roof again. Four years later, The Sopranos ended its pioneering six-season run on HBO with - spoiler alert - a tense sequence involving a diner and parallel parking, soundtracked by "Don't Stop Believin'." Downloads of the track on iTunes soared.
#Turn down the world tonight by journey serial
But the requests for "Don't Stop Believin'" kept coming.Ĭharlize Theron roller-skated to the song in her Oscar-winning turn as a serial killer in 2003's Monster. The fictional William McKinley High School's glee club sang "Don't Stop Believin'" in a 2009 episode of Fox's Glee.īy the late 1990s, Perry had left Journey, and the band's career was in the wilderness. "I really believe this song is about wanting to make it," he says, "Where you think you're stuck in life - that you're able to get out, the same way I got out of Chicago." As for the singer in the smoky room with wine and cheap perfume, that tableau evokes the desperation Cain says he felt at the Sunset Strip's Whisky a Go Go during his rough Los Angeles days. The characters introduced in the first verse, a small-town girl and a South Detroit city boy, are familiar by now - enough so that it's rarely addressed that there is no such neighborhood as South Detroit, apart from Perry needing an extra syllable. Cain still had his dad's advice in the dog-eared lyric book and from it drew inspiration for the pedaled, keep-the-faith piano part that builds and releases over and over until the phrase itself arrives in the chorus, more than three-quarters of the way into the track. In 1981, when the band was recording Escape, lead singer Steve Perry asked Cain to come up with a final track. American Anthem What Does 'Born In The U.S.A.' Really Mean?