My Cousin Rachel : What's up with all these trailer songs?

A bone to pick with the industry as a whole, but this trailer in particular reminded me of it even mroe. Why is the industry just making slow more sinister remakes of popular 90's and 2K songs and slapping them on trailers? This is about the 10th trailer I have noticed that has one (Wicked Game)? and don't get me wrong, I do like the original songs, I do like the remakes of them, but the trailers just seem like ripoffs off each other, now.

Off the top of my head is the Transformers trailer, 50 shades of Gray, Birdman. I know there much more that I have seen, but can't think right now.

Has anyone else noticed this pattern?

Just my 2 cents, carry on.

I feel like it's been growing for a few years. Didn't the first trailer for The Social Network use a cover of 'Freak' by Radiohead?

Also, who performs this 'Wicked Game' cover?

Ursine Vulpine ft Annaca - Wicked Game

Yes, just my thoughts. Netflixs Bloodline is using a new versin of Metallicas "Nothing Else Matters". Im sure Ive heard more.

Add Logan's "I hurt myself"

That cover was a lot more popular than the original. And it's been around for years.

Definitely. The anachronism is what bothers me. The original "Wicked Game" came out in 1989, the MCR book was published in 1951, and the setting itself is in the 19th century! The Winter's War movie is adapted from a Grimm fairy tale (Snow White) and the trailer has a pop song. I wish producers would stop trying to make things "cooler" by updating them. I understand creativity and putting a new spin on something, but if audiences can't take the trouble to enjoy something from a different time period, why should they watch it?

Currently listening to "Castle" by Halsey, which was in Winter's War, the movie itself, and is very obviously a pop song. There are so few movies based on traditional folklore that don't try to modernize them unnecessarily; can we have some? Please?

I generally hate cover songs because in most cases the artists doing the remake bring nothing new to the table; they are just plain versions of the originals. If an original is truly great, even bland remakes by mediocre performers will sound OK.

The tip of the iceberg: http://screencrush.com/movie-trailers-sad-covers/

What really grinds my gears is that the record label/soundtrack almost never mentions the original performer of the song (typically only who wrote the song), so many new listeners never realize that there is a better version out there.

How many folks incorrectly believe Johnny Cash originally wrote/performed 'Hurt'?

Because their taste in music has gone down the Bieber-bend, together with most of the rest of the planet, since reality show "stars" started karaoke-ing themselves to riches.

Current generation has no clue about music. I love listening to music with my kids and then saying, "Oh you know I heard that along time ago" then playing them the original song which is almost 100% of the time better and which they realize is better than the crap ass remake created by a talentless puppet that couldn't sing without auto-tune or play an instrument as well as a wind up monkey.