Domestic Blitz need to makeover the music
Have been meaning to blog this all week… Did anyone catch Domestic Blitz last Sunday evening?
A lady from Thornleigh, Jan Retford, was being Domestic Blitz-ed, so we all watched it after church on Sunday evening. Jan is an amazing woman who’s been through a whole lot of stuff in her life; divorce, horrible car accident, two forms of cancer… And yet she has stayed solid and steadfast in her faith in God, and remained her true self, caring more about others than herself. So you can imagine that this just exudes warm fuzzy feelings and makes you smile, especially when a TV producer packages it up for the small screen.
But as we were watching it, I was left a bit confused by the use of background music to go with the show as they were building and making-over the house. Two songs that stood out were Fall Out Boy’s I Don’t Care and The All-American Rejects’ Gives You Hell. Let me quote some of the lyrics to better explain why I’m confused. These are from the chorus of each song, and it’s the chorus of each that went to air…
Fall Out Boy – I Don’t Care:
I don’t care what you think as long as it’s about me,
The rest of us can find happiness in misery.
The All-American Rejects – Gives You Hell:
When you see my face,
Hope it gives you hell.
When you walk my way,
Hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell.
Seriously, is the producer on the show not paying attention to the music that goes to air… or do they just pluck any current top 50 song and not even consider the lyrics and the meaning of the songs? And if they’re keen to use current top 50 hits, I’m pretty confident that I could find way better songs in the current top 50 to be used in Domestic Blitz than the above two.