Greg Rock: With a great bar song, people quickly forget they have the vocal range of a busted garbage compactor and imagine instead they possess the inhuman pipes of Journey's Steve Perry. Nevertheless, “Don’t Stop Believing,” as cheesy as it may be, does just as it was intended: encourages drunken crooners to “hug it out” in a feel-good fest as they remember to just keep pushing forward despite the hopelessness that life seems bring. I never took Journey seriously-and I still really don’t-mainly because Steve Perry reminds me of Scott Baio. I was only endeared to this song after hearing the string quartet version of it in the 90s cult classic that parodies 80s culture, The Wedding Singer. As it is easy to sing and irritatingly catchy, the capacity in which this song is able to be sung by a drunken mob is far greater than most. Nikki Pierce:Journey’s hit single from their 1981 album Escape is easily considered their signature song. Somehow verbal communication is sufficient for these bonding strangers. The impromptu barbershop one hundred-tet silently coordinates who will take echo responsibilities for the climax. Miserable patrons with droopy eyelids scan the room in confusion. Than around the half way point, the backing music starts to pick up. A few people notice the original vocalist and join in. The first chorus is understated, almost crooned in a librarian’s twelve inch voice. The aforementioned drunk ass starts whispering You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips along with The Righteous Brothers. “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling” is the perfect length and volume to accommodate. They’re spontaneous, an unplanned outpour of emotion that builds once a single inebriated alcoholic begins butchering a classic. Mack Rawden: Most drunk sing-a-longs aren’t coordinated. Of course, sadly for most of us, we probably end up looking more like William Hung than Tom Cruise while up there, but for those four drunken minutes up on stage, you and your wingman believe that you are the US Navy's finest pilots and can thus score with any woman you choose.
#THE ROCK GO HOME AND FUCK THE PROM QUEEN MOVIE#
The movie bred the belief in young impressionable men that, while in a club, if they were to get their drunk ass up on stage and start slurring The Righteous Brothers after a few too many Jager Bombs for Dutch courage the target lady's panties would drop faster than a Spears siblings' when she's fertile.
Sadly, for every young man who grew up with that movie and watched that scene, our egos would indeed start to write checks our vocal talents couldn't cash. Mav and Goose could pull it off to score with Kelly McGillis with ease. It seemed to turn something as awful as karaoke in to a smooth pick up method. No other decade spawned so many: Flashdance, An Officer and a Gentleman, Dirty Dancing to name but a couple all have signature tracks which identify them and which everyone can sing along to. Stuart Wood:It's a true testament to 80s cinema the number of songs which have ultimately come to form pop-culture icons.
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