Say Say Anything is redone in 2005. What song is playing on Lloyd Dobler's boom box (or iPod speakers?)

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I don't think "Maps" really works, at least if the goal is to capture the same mood as the original. "In Your Eyes" seems like a song about fulfillment, unity; it uplifts. "Maps" is more of a pleading, broke-down song; it repents and begs.

Hmmm... something gentle... sincere... yet empowering....

― Yoshinorimike (Yoshinorimike), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

it would have to be a pseudo cerebral chick song. somebody think of one.

― Beanie, Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, first we're gonna have to find some chicks. Anyone know any?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Wouldn't it be Ryan Adams or some such shit?

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think this thread can truly be complete until we have Zach Braff's opinion.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link

(Alternate answer = they already did this, in 2004, and it was "New Slang," gender-reversed and on slightly more modern portable-stereo technology.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link

no no no, Yoshi! sure "In Your Eyes" is uplifting and all, it's also a little more self-centered than "maps," but nonetheless I think the point of the scene is to make her think of him, remember what they had. "maps" does this more explicitly, but it is still the right answer. especially because "they don't love you like i love you" takes on so much more meaning when you apply it to the situation with her father. booya!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 2 December 2005 05:27 (eighteen years ago) link

John Cusack being a creepy, smarmy fuck

Yeah, he should be more Affleckian. Christ.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link

He would be playing "1 Thing" by Amerie. THREAD OVER, TAKE A BATH HIPPIES

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Without Gravity - Waterfall

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Ouch! I guess here is where I admit I've never actually seen the movie and was drawing purely on the nostalgiac residue of the pop culture collective consciousness... *sheepish grin*

Maps it is!

― Yoshinorimike (Yoshinorimike), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

lol Yoshi! i like your style.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Damien Rice.

Unfortunately.

― asl, Friday, 2 December 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Maps is just too fragile of a song to be blasting from a boombox held over your head. Something just a little more anthemic. I thought Arcade Fire was just about right on.

― Matt McEver (mattmc387), Friday, 2 December 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

The way I saw it (and I just saw again it last night, hence the question) Lloyd was not the kind of guy to listen to Peter Gabriel, that was all Ione's doing. He was listening to RHCP in the opening scene, right? So the 2005 song would have to be some literate but mainstream pop, something someone who spent most of her time at a nursing home and in libraries would have access to and enjoy.

-- caspar (caspa...), December 1st, 2005.

Based on this, I'm changing my vote to clocks.

Total clocks.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i disagree that lloyd wouldn't have been a fan of both the chili peppers and peter gabriel. perhaps diane cort loved "in your eyes" and he played it not just for literal and visceral value, but the point is that EVERYONE loves that song, even edge-livers like lloyd. regardless of their high school stereotype.

personally, i found the outfit diane wore to the graduation party more of a issue.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Maps is just too fragile of a song to be blasting from a boombox held over your head. Something just a little more anthemic.

i dunno, i haven't seen it in a while, but i'm fairly sure if The Internet re-cut this and inserted "Maps", I'd get chills.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonzBvi97qI

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 00:53 (six years ago) link

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