No doubt, our aesthetic inclinations were strongly molded by the omnipresent influence of MTV, wherein it was popular for fictional images and narratives to be paired with music for the sake of creating a larger, compelling storytelling arc. However, at the time there were few things my friends and I liked more than watching a film with an “inspirational” action sequence commingled with a memorable song. The orientation of this misaligned compass needle is laughable now, looking back in hindsight. T., Hulk Hogan or Sylvester Stallone as my idols and sucked up these machismo tropes like a thirsty dry sponge. As an easily influenced (and, admittedly, naive) child, I often looked up to hyper-macho, muscle bound personalities like Mr. As a child of the 80’s, I have a tender fondness in my heart for those iconic montage songs so prevalent in the movies of that decadent decade.
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