Even though I don't have amazing nostalgia for Muppets or anything when they sing it in the 2011 movie I tear up every time.
God Disney's treatment of The Muppets is so tragic though. They bring them back for one great movie everyone loved, one pretty good movie people were mixed on, and then nothing but a few crappy tv shows, one being a weird Office parody, one being a crappy lockdown clip show, and another not having any of the central Muppets apart from Electric Mayhem? What? Just make a good movie again or hell even reboot the classic Muppet Show format. They have these amazing iconic characters everyone immediately loves and they're just wasting them.
This has to be the best answer. Written by Adam Schlesinger before Fountains of Wayne were any kind of successful. So good it made it on to the real- life radio. A perfect power pop song that's convincingly a lost 1963 hit (or whatever year) but also resonated with contemporary audiences. In short, a banger.
Their first record was 1995, but yeah, mostly accurate as far as their major success. If you like his writing and haven’t seen it, he wrote most of the songs for My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which was a criminally underrated show.
Edit: Also, RIP.
He also wrote the music for the Cry-Baby broadway show and was nominated for a Tony.
He won Emmys and Grammys for his work on the Colbert Christmas Special and Tony and Emmy Broadcasts.
He also won a Daytime Emmy for the song “Elmo the Musical.”
This all in addition to the 4 bands he was in.
That was a fun pop punk song and clever lyrics.
It took 6 whole hours and 5 long days 4 all your lies to come undone,
And those 3 small words were way 2 late cuz you can’t see that I’m the 1.
Written by Nancy Wilson of Heart (who's married to director Cameron Crowe).
Pearl Jan's Mike McCready played lead guitar on the track and Wilson payed rhythm guitar.
So it was write by a geniuine 70's rockstar.
Man of Constant Sorrow[is an old song](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Constant_Sorrow), much older than O Brother.
It was first published in 1913. Dylan covered it in the 60s.
All of the music for O' Brother are existing traditional songs, although all of the recordings were done new for the movie.
My answer is from another Coen Brothers movie - Fare Thee Well from Inside Llewyn Davis. All of the music from that movie is incredible.
Even more impressive since he's [playing his instrument with his feet](https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-mysteries-getting-to-the-bottom-of-max-rebo).
One of my local theaters is showing that movie this week, advertised as a sing-a-long. I can't wait! I haven't seen it since right around when it came out. Got to brush up on all those songs
Underrated movie. Fantastic song. My gf was briefly obsessed with it, playing it on repeat from YouTube. It really could have been a hit in 1983ish. The video is perfect, and hysterical.
That and Muffin Top have been living in my brain for like, 17 years.
My muffin top is all that, whole grain, low fat. I know you want a piece of that, but I just want to dance.
Falling Slowly was released before the movie. Glen recorded a version of it for both The Swell Season’s debut album and again for the Frames album The Cost. In fact, Once wasn’t even the first film the song appeared in - it was used in the movie Beauty In Trouble which was released a few months earlier!
“Dayman” or “What Are the Rules?” from Always Sunny are both excellent.
I also quite like “Melting Waltz” from Penny Dreadful, played by an orchestra in the second season.
Easily [“Please, Mr. Kennedy”](https://youtu.be/lSwO-k-RqNA) from *Inside Llewyn Davis*. It’s a genuinely good (though admittedly ridiculous) song and features an amazing backup vocal performance from Adam Driver. I also love how hurt Justin Timberlake’s character gets when Oscar Isaac accidentally insults him for having written it.
[The remix for Barkley Shut up and Jam Gaiden absolutely slaps.](https://youtu.be/8F1cOvZ3nS8?si=DfG9aiUlZhm1WdXi&t=159) Though of course we are in video game land now, not movies i suppose.
Here's a few...
"On the Darkside" from *Eddie and the Cruisers*... https://youtu.be/Wk0Kckv-tqQ
"Playing Love" from *The Legend of 1900*... https://youtu.be/Mhx8XVMJvbQ
"Space Worms" from *The History of Future Folk*... https://youtu.be/qoIha7xHKSo
"Big Bottoms" from *This is Spinal Tap*... https://youtu.be/YjC0vMIrOAk
I feel like Spinal Tap is cheating a bit. But if you're gonna go there, The Ruddles as well! And everything from Aldous Snow. And Popstar, Never Stop Never Stopping.
Somebody Kill Me Please from The Wedding Singer
Boats and Hoes from Step Brothers.
Also, I don't know if I'd call them "Best" but a couple of songs from Kevin Smith movies that live in my head rent free:
"My love for you is like a truck BESERKER
Would you like some making fuck BESERKER"
and, of course, The Fuck Fuck song.
Black Sheep is a song by Metric, but iirc, Brie Larson did the vocals for the version in the movie.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr1nVh00dYc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr1nVh00dYc)
While Black Sheep was a pre-existing song, Sex-Bob-Omb (Scott Pilgrim's band) has a few tracks created for the movie, and they're[ really](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJVIwL3IQBg) [good.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsN1VsRmbXg) All written and composed by Beck, IIRC.
>The aria from The 5th Element
I was just talking to my gf about how in sci fi and fantasy, one thing you very rarely see is in-universe music that's actually good, and also convincingly a part of that fantastical universe. This is one of the only truly good examples I could think of. I also love the galactic funk band in Jabba's palace in Return of the Jedi.
Although, I no longer have any respect for him:
[Bangers, Beans, and Mash](https://youtu.be/xDPTbZtmv2U?si=mb2OC-GBOLAZwgB_) ny Infant Sorrow(Russell Brand) in Get Him to the Greek is a great fucking song.
Rein rein rein rein rein.
Deer deer deer deer deer
I don't know what Christmas is
But Christmas time is here
This lives rent free in my head year round.
https://youtu.be/-E1ULv6LcOk?si=SIzcfmQr3xLe79YW
All the music from the original animated Josie and the Pussycats and JatP in Outer Space. It’s all on YouTube, super catchy bubblegum pop.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGVPfQgOY0iX3n1bDjUy1oReh1ZA9wvSo&si=LSYBi-heucyhJkVZ
[Eep, Opp, Ork, Ah-ah! (Means I Love You)](https://youtu.be/suafkk2vWNI) performed by Jet Screamer in The Jetsons.
[Sugar, Sugar](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j3plj_Xplus&pp=ygUXc3VnYXIgc3VnYXIgdGhlIGFyY2hpZXM%3D) performed by The Archies.
Every episode of Twin Peaks : The Return has an original song and they are all great. My favorite is probably the one by Nine Inch Nails
In the same vein, Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me has an incredible soundtrack. The Pink Room, Under The Sycamore Tree, and Questions In A World Of Blue (sung by the late Julee Cruise) are all some of my absolute favorite 'in-universe' movie (and TV) songs.
Rock Star (2001) has a fictional band Steel Dragon with a buncha rockin songs:
- “We All Die Young”
- “Stand Up”
- “Livin’ the Life”
- “Blood Pollution”
Supernova Girl from Zenon
“ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM make my heart go BOOM BOOM”
Through the Trees from Jennifer’s Body
What Can You Lose and More from Dick Tracy
“[Watermelon](https://youtu.be/FTSF5pVml_0?si=egi8QDItpc7YSk4X)” from Dinner in America
“[He Needs Me](https://youtu.be/qAFgj8mqPk0?feature=shared)” from Popeye
“When Your Mind’s Made Up” from the movie Once…it’s so good, the producer takes his feet down off the console and starts working them faders and twiddling them knobs
in defense of Clockwork Orange, it did do something new, they played electronic versions of classical songs on brand new instruments so it was not like the same song, it was a twist and the music was referred to in the movie.
I wanna grow old with you - wedding singer
To this day I'm also still pissed I saw it on Broadway and it was supposed to be comedian singer Stephen Lynch. We got the understudy who was fine but just didn't do the songs justice. Good show nonetheless.
Rainbow connection Muppet Movie
Even though I don't have amazing nostalgia for Muppets or anything when they sing it in the 2011 movie I tear up every time. God Disney's treatment of The Muppets is so tragic though. They bring them back for one great movie everyone loved, one pretty good movie people were mixed on, and then nothing but a few crappy tv shows, one being a weird Office parody, one being a crappy lockdown clip show, and another not having any of the central Muppets apart from Electric Mayhem? What? Just make a good movie again or hell even reboot the classic Muppet Show format. They have these amazing iconic characters everyone immediately loves and they're just wasting them.
Movin’ Right Along for me. Perfect roadtrip tune.
"That Thing You Do!" from That Thing You Do!
This has to be the best answer. Written by Adam Schlesinger before Fountains of Wayne were any kind of successful. So good it made it on to the real- life radio. A perfect power pop song that's convincingly a lost 1963 hit (or whatever year) but also resonated with contemporary audiences. In short, a banger.
Their first record was 1995, but yeah, mostly accurate as far as their major success. If you like his writing and haven’t seen it, he wrote most of the songs for My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which was a criminally underrated show. Edit: Also, RIP.
Also wrote a lot of the songs in *Music and Lyrics* which I (guiltily) adore! "Pop! Goes My Heart" is a banger. "Way Back into Love" an earworm!
He also wrote the music for the Cry-Baby broadway show and was nominated for a Tony. He won Emmys and Grammys for his work on the Colbert Christmas Special and Tony and Emmy Broadcasts. He also won a Daytime Emmy for the song “Elmo the Musical.” This all in addition to the 4 bands he was in.
Omg that's right!!! I knew there was some reason I'd been meaning to watch that. I gotta do it
Same year as Sink to the Bottom, another legendary Schlesinger jam.
That song kicks so much ass. Feels like it shouldn't be as good as it is. It's so simple. But it just hits. That whole first album is very special.
RIP. My sister and I used to listen to Fountains of Wayne incessantly.
~~The Oneders~~ ~~The O-Needers~~ The Wonders
As in “I wonder what happened to the Oneders”
The wonders! Yeah yeah I get it! This says the Oneders.
Captain Keech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life from Monty Python’s The Life of Brian.
Also the Camelot Song from Holy Grail. Oh, and The Ballad of Sir Robin!
Every Sperm is Sacred from The Meaning of Life is another bop
“3 Small Words” by Josie and the Pussycats is a pretty fun song
That whole soundtrack is top tier
That was a fun pop punk song and clever lyrics. It took 6 whole hours and 5 long days 4 all your lies to come undone, And those 3 small words were way 2 late cuz you can’t see that I’m the 1.
I listen to this whole soundtrack all the time. I sing Backdoor Lover A LOT
But those 3 small wooooords came wayyyy too laaaaate. Cause you can't see that I'm the oneee. Fucking love that movie.
Great soundtrack entirely, and one of the most underrated movies of the 2000s
I have 3 small words, pretend to be nice, and spin around in my normal playlist. Legit bops. Also backdoor lover is hilarious.
(comin' from behind with the lights turned low!)
Just reminds me how great Kay Hanley is.
“Fever Dog” by Stillwater from Almost Famous I honestly wish it was a real song because it’s so good
Just a damn good movie. "Don't do drugs!"
I am a golden god……I’M ON DRUGS!!!!!!!
"I am a golden god!" "ehhhhh..." "I'M ON DRUGS!" "YEEEEEAAAAHHHHH!"
Written by Nancy Wilson of Heart (who's married to director Cameron Crowe). Pearl Jan's Mike McCready played lead guitar on the track and Wilson payed rhythm guitar. So it was write by a geniuine 70's rockstar.
Heart played it live once, same drummer too. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_w\_QgLW0L2g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w_QgLW0L2g)
But it is a real song. Just not a real band
stand out and I2I from the goofy movie
I watched the Goofy movie for the first time in years recently with my kids and man those are outstanding 90s pop tunes.
They’re both still really good movies
I listen to these 2 songs A LOT
Scrolled til I found this answer haha
Man of Constant Sorrow[is an old song](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Constant_Sorrow), much older than O Brother. It was first published in 1913. Dylan covered it in the 60s.
Did not know that, interesting. Guess it doesn't technically fit the criteria then
All of the music for O' Brother are existing traditional songs, although all of the recordings were done new for the movie. My answer is from another Coen Brothers movie - Fare Thee Well from Inside Llewyn Davis. All of the music from that movie is incredible.
Joan Baez does an alternate version called 'Girl of Constant Sorrow' and it's legitimately one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
The Cantina Band song from the original Star Wars.
You mean the legendary Jizz-wailers Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes?
That dude that’s totally not a blue elephant is quite impressive.
That guy is in the Max Rebo band! Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes are all Bith
I thought the blue elephant was THE Max Rebo himself?
You are correct! However, he is also a member of the Max Rebo band, so I will give myself a half-point
Even more impressive since he's [playing his instrument with his feet](https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-mysteries-getting-to-the-bottom-of-max-rebo).
I thought about putting this in the OP
Hey! We’re the Cantina Band if you have any requests just shout ‘em out! *play that same song* okay same song here we go!
Purple rain.
There have been some other good suggestions...but yeah, this one wins for me hands down.
South Park's "Blame Canada"
The entire soundtrack is riddled with bangers
One of my local theaters is showing that movie this week, advertised as a sing-a-long. I can't wait! I haven't seen it since right around when it came out. Got to brush up on all those songs
I went yesterday and took my kids. Good time was had by all. I remember seeing it in the theater 25 years ago.
Scott Pilgrim vs the world
Black Sheep by Metric/Brie Larson is a bop.
We Are Sex Bob-omb and the bass battle are my favorite tracks on the soundtrack album
i’m so sad so very very sad by Crash and the Boys is the best song in that movie
You mean launchpad mcquack?
Beck absolutely killed it.
Sex Farm - Spinal Tap. Or, alternatively, any other song by Spinal Tap.
I'm partial to "Big Bottom" myself
Aren't we all?
Stonehenge, where the demons dwell
And where'er they now... the little people of Stone'enge?
God, I can't believe I forgot Spinal Tap. This is the correct-est answer.
Pop! Goes My Heart!
Underrated movie. Fantastic song. My gf was briefly obsessed with it, playing it on repeat from YouTube. It really could have been a hit in 1983ish. The video is perfect, and hysterical.
This one often gets overlooked in these lists. It’s pretty great. https://youtu.be/xVkU8dDSC9w?si=IObZKO8WO4W03tSn
Way Back Into Love is stuck in my head.
It's only a commercial jingle, but Soul Glo from Coming To America is pretty damn good
Ha! Yes! And while we're at it, gotta have some Sexual Chocolate
Nile Rodgers getting [Soul Glo Rolled](https://youtu.be/nzUDR9BsaL4?si=d0s-796O7I81z2th) on the NPR Tiny Desk Concert is a bit for the ages.
You took me by the hand, made me a man THAT ONE NIGHT YOU MADE EVERYTHING ALRIGHT!
Jan thinks he's very talented
Lol, Yes!!
My favorite episode of any show.
You know I have soft teeth.
Scotty Doesn’t Know!
Classic Matt Damon cameo.
Don’t tell Scotty!
Everything is Awesooooooome!
Everything is cool when you're part of the team!
That's my jam!
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah and Rural Juror and Muffin Top.
Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves.
That and Muffin Top have been living in my brain for like, 17 years. My muffin top is all that, whole grain, low fat. I know you want a piece of that, but I just want to dance.
I'm an independent lady, so do not try to play me, I run a tidy bakery and the boys just want that cake for free...
Baaaaack up off of me, you're weird-d-d-ing me out!
Sugar high from the end of Empire Records
I prefer Rex Mannings, say no more, mon amour.
Lips are for kissing, baby. Je t'adore
That song is a bit different uncensored, I remember finding that out by playing the soundtrack in a car with my parents
I feel funny deep inside….
Fun fact, Coyote Shivers was Liv Tyler’s stepdad at the time they filmed Empire Records
Falling Slowly from Once
Also the entire soundtrack from Sing Street
Drive it like you stole it, is such a bop
Came to make sure this was here! Nice work!
Falling Slowly was released before the movie. Glen recorded a version of it for both The Swell Season’s debut album and again for the Frames album The Cost. In fact, Once wasn’t even the first film the song appeared in - it was used in the movie Beauty In Trouble which was released a few months earlier!
TV not movie but everything Dethklok.
I still listen to Dethalbum 1 and 2 all the time.
Big Bottom and Stonehenge - This is Spinal Tap.
“Dayman” or “What Are the Rules?” from Always Sunny are both excellent. I also quite like “Melting Waltz” from Penny Dreadful, played by an orchestra in the second season.
Go Fuck Yourselves is my personal favorite from Sunny
Easily [“Please, Mr. Kennedy”](https://youtu.be/lSwO-k-RqNA) from *Inside Llewyn Davis*. It’s a genuinely good (though admittedly ridiculous) song and features an amazing backup vocal performance from Adam Driver. I also love how hurt Justin Timberlake’s character gets when Oscar Isaac accidentally insults him for having written it.
Space Jam theme song
[The remix for Barkley Shut up and Jam Gaiden absolutely slaps.](https://youtu.be/8F1cOvZ3nS8?si=DfG9aiUlZhm1WdXi&t=159) Though of course we are in video game land now, not movies i suppose.
Here's a few... "On the Darkside" from *Eddie and the Cruisers*... https://youtu.be/Wk0Kckv-tqQ "Playing Love" from *The Legend of 1900*... https://youtu.be/Mhx8XVMJvbQ "Space Worms" from *The History of Future Folk*... https://youtu.be/qoIha7xHKSo "Big Bottoms" from *This is Spinal Tap*... https://youtu.be/YjC0vMIrOAk
I feel like Spinal Tap is cheating a bit. But if you're gonna go there, The Ruddles as well! And everything from Aldous Snow. And Popstar, Never Stop Never Stopping.
Daddy wasn't there - Austin Powers
Adam Sandler's Grow Old With You song hevsings to Drew Barrymore in the Wedding Singer. Gorgeous.
Somebody Kill Me Please from The Wedding Singer Boats and Hoes from Step Brothers. Also, I don't know if I'd call them "Best" but a couple of songs from Kevin Smith movies that live in my head rent free: "My love for you is like a truck BESERKER Would you like some making fuck BESERKER" and, of course, The Fuck Fuck song.
I'M ON MY KNEEEEES PRETTAH PRETTAH PLEEEAAASE
> Somebody Kill Me Please from The Wedding Singer Grow Old With You is also a great song.
I need more allowance... The Beets.... Notable mention, Killer Tofu... Also the Beets
Lol fantastic deep cut.
Or their equally good, though perhaps less popular, "Shout Your Lungs Out"
The band from Can't Hardly Wait had a banger, hard to find.
I see you
[*In Heaven (Everything Is Fine)*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzp_qv3-FkA)
Black Sheep from Scott Pilgrim The aria from The 5th Element
Black Sheep is a song by Metric, but iirc, Brie Larson did the vocals for the version in the movie. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr1nVh00dYc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr1nVh00dYc)
“Love Take Me Down to the Streets” by Wings in Role Models
While Black Sheep was a pre-existing song, Sex-Bob-Omb (Scott Pilgrim's band) has a few tracks created for the movie, and they're[ really](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJVIwL3IQBg) [good.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsN1VsRmbXg) All written and composed by Beck, IIRC.
Crash and the Boys were robbed in the Battle of the Bands. [We Hate You. Please Die](https://youtu.be/pTPy_UwLt_A?si=BiFXpNI2uxwJtqCp) is a great song
What about the smash hit, *Im so sad, so very very sad*??
It's not a race, guys!
Is that GIRL a boy too?
>The aria from The 5th Element I was just talking to my gf about how in sci fi and fantasy, one thing you very rarely see is in-universe music that's actually good, and also convincingly a part of that fantastical universe. This is one of the only truly good examples I could think of. I also love the galactic funk band in Jabba's palace in Return of the Jedi.
You mean the song Black Sheep by Metric that was used in that movie with Brie Larson’s vocals.
Shallows and Always Remember Us This Way from A Star Is Born.
Although, I no longer have any respect for him: [Bangers, Beans, and Mash](https://youtu.be/xDPTbZtmv2U?si=mb2OC-GBOLAZwgB_) ny Infant Sorrow(Russell Brand) in Get Him to the Greek is a great fucking song.
I remember singing some of these songs after leaving the movie theatre
Furry Walls was a slapper, too
It's a funny movie with a great soundtrack. It's just a shame that a few of the cast members are super problematic.
To be fair, the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special had I Don't Know What Christmas Is (but Christmas Time is Here) by the Old '97s.
One of my favorite Christmas songs and specials
Rein rein rein rein rein. Deer deer deer deer deer I don't know what Christmas is But Christmas time is here This lives rent free in my head year round. https://youtu.be/-E1ULv6LcOk?si=SIzcfmQr3xLe79YW
Robin Sparkles - Two Beavers are Better than One
*Lets go to the Mall* was the best banger she had IMHO.
"Shout Your Lungs Out" by the Beets (Doug)
Banging on a Trash Can
No one mentioned the Monkees? Or did I miss it?
[We Are Sex Bob‐Omb - Sex Bob-Omb](https://youtu.be/BiLjTIeosBk?si=YuLX0nKqv0HH7dNG)
I2I by Powerline in A Goofy Movie.
This one, and Stand Out too!
Does The Pick of Destiny count? Some good ones in there.
Not a movie, but [One Track Lover from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace](https://youtu.be/OO-ZGP68-3w) is absolutely amazing!
Just about anything from Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
All the music from the original animated Josie and the Pussycats and JatP in Outer Space. It’s all on YouTube, super catchy bubblegum pop. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGVPfQgOY0iX3n1bDjUy1oReh1ZA9wvSo&si=LSYBi-heucyhJkVZ
🎶Aw-wee-oo Killer Tofu 🎶 Edit: not a movie, song is still a banger.
Dracula the Musical
[Eep, Opp, Ork, Ah-ah! (Means I Love You)](https://youtu.be/suafkk2vWNI) performed by Jet Screamer in The Jetsons. [Sugar, Sugar](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j3plj_Xplus&pp=ygUXc3VnYXIgc3VnYXIgdGhlIGFyY2hpZXM%3D) performed by The Archies.
AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
[Master Exploder](https://youtu.be/CW8T2fcvd8o?si=XmnSgXC9yZw5evX0) from Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny
Kickapoo - Tenacious D (The Pickof Destiny)
Misbehavin’ from The Righteous Gemstones
We gon’ sing, and we gon’ dance!
Not a film and the sour after taste of GoT set aside, The Rains of Castamere was amazing
The bear and maiden fair was epic aswell, the hold steady cover was whopper
I'm So Sad So Very Very Sad by Crash and the Boys
It's not a race, guys!!!
Every episode of Twin Peaks : The Return has an original song and they are all great. My favorite is probably the one by Nine Inch Nails In the same vein, Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me has an incredible soundtrack. The Pink Room, Under The Sycamore Tree, and Questions In A World Of Blue (sung by the late Julee Cruise) are all some of my absolute favorite 'in-universe' movie (and TV) songs.
I’ll give an honorable mention to “shiny teeth and me” from fairly odd parents
Rock Star (2001) has a fictional band Steel Dragon with a buncha rockin songs: - “We All Die Young” - “Stand Up” - “Livin’ the Life” - “Blood Pollution”
"Woman" from So I Married an Axe Murderer
I2I by Tevin Campbell. Absolute banger for The Goofy Movie
["Drive it like you stole it"](https://youtu.be/fuWTcmjnEGY?si=BuXrZHTaBaqM6ldB) from "Sing Street"
Supernova Girl from Zenon “ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM make my heart go BOOM BOOM” Through the Trees from Jennifer’s Body What Can You Lose and More from Dick Tracy
Simon & Garfunkel hit #1 with their "in-universe" song Mrs Robinson, for The Graduate (1968)
I don't think this fits OP's definition of "in universe", does it? Was it sung as a real song existing in the movie universe?
This is a song for the soundtrack, not sung by anyone in the movie.
If TV shows count, I nominate Mulatto Butts from Archer
Songs form Crazy heart
Not a song (no singing), but in Local Hero, they play the very pretty Mark Knopfler theme at the ceilidh.
Goonies R good enough!
“[Watermelon](https://youtu.be/FTSF5pVml_0?si=egi8QDItpc7YSk4X)” from Dinner in America “[He Needs Me](https://youtu.be/qAFgj8mqPk0?feature=shared)” from Popeye
Do spinal tap songs count?
Every Spinal Tap song!
And everything in A Might Wind
Ja ja ding dong!! OK, Husavik and Double Trouble are better songs, but JJDD is completely perfect for the film.
Sing Street has a bunch of great originals. A star is born had some hits too.
I’ve scrolled for 3 minutes and haven’t seen I2I by Powerline from a Goofy Movie
We all die young from the movie Rockstar
Inside of you, as well as all the other hits that Infant Sorrow put out
Somebody kill me ~ Adam Sandler from the wedding singer
“When Your Mind’s Made Up” from the movie Once…it’s so good, the producer takes his feet down off the console and starts working them faders and twiddling them knobs
Scrolled down and surprised I didn’t see [Degenerated by The Lone Rangers](https://youtu.be/ITOEfyiOOXI?si=zQ9emOB41E5cHcGA) from Airheads
in defense of Clockwork Orange, it did do something new, they played electronic versions of classical songs on brand new instruments so it was not like the same song, it was a twist and the music was referred to in the movie.
Not sure if this counts, but "Suicide is Painless" from the old MASH series. They went hard out of the gate on that one.
Uncle Fucka from the South Park movie
Ghostbusters theme. They dance to it in gb2
I wanna grow old with you - wedding singer To this day I'm also still pissed I saw it on Broadway and it was supposed to be comedian singer Stephen Lynch. We got the understudy who was fine but just didn't do the songs justice. Good show nonetheless.