Journey's seminal track "Don't Stop Believin'" has been on a course of pop culture dominance for a while, from Monster to The Sopranos to Glee. Now, thanks to the wonder of supercut-style editing, the hit single from 1981 gets reinvented as a movie mashup.
In "'Don't Stop Believing' Sung by the Movies" (above) the Journey jam is compiled using video snippets from more than 70 films, from RoboCop 2 and Alien to Deliverance and Labyrinth. It's a wonderful pop-culture pastiche and a testament to the universality of the song's lyrics, which somehow manage to be really specific and yet completely vague at the same time. (Seriously, who has taken a midnight train going anywhere? No one. But that doesn't mean folks don't sing this song like they're Amtrak frequent riders.)
"I saw the supercuts for 'Everything I Do' [sic] and '99 Problems' and figured it was time to raise my game," the video's creator, dondrapersayswhat, wrote on his YouTube page. "And why not with the greatest song ever written?" (The YouTuber scored a viral hit last fall with "The Many Deaths of Steve Buscemi.")
Check out the Journey clip above (turn on the closed-captioning to see which movies are being used), then go through the gallery to see its inspiration – a supercut done to Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" and another for Jay-Z's "99 Problems."
[via Have You Seen This?!]
