In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life.

Distant wars, murky conflicts, diplomacy behind closed doors.

On our new show, Sources and Methods.

NPR reporters on the ground bring you stories of real people,

helping you understand why distant events matter here at home.

Listen to sources and methods on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

There are some songs that are so overused in movies, they become cliches. So we're rounding up a few.

We're nominating for retirement and suggesting a few worthy

replacements. I'm Aisha Harris, and joining me today on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour is my co-host

Stephen Thompson. Hello, friend. Hello, Aisha. It is great to have you here. You are the perfect

person to talk about this with. You know, obviously there's no real science to determining when a

song has become overplayed, although I would argue perhaps you could go and look at a artist's

IMDB page and get a gander at how many times certain songs have been used. I've done that

before, that's for sure, in the past. But yeah, it's more of a you know it when you hear it

situation.

Everyone's mileage is going to vary.

And we should also note that we had to narrow down our possibilities quite a bit because there are a lot of songs that are overused.

That's just how it goes.

So we deliberately left out instrumental and classical music.

So don't come to us, you know, about Beethoven's second or something. I don't know.

For release, whatever. Just so Stephen, you're going to guide us through this. So give us the first

song you think we should retire from the movies. Well, one caveat I want to open with, before we even

...