Talk:List of songs based on a film

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No it's alright leave it alone (James Epstein)

There's a ton of crap on this list —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.126.80.4 (talk) 20:26, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Categories of songs

There are different ways in which a song can be about a film:

A song that re-tells (part of) the story of a film (e.g. "Fidelity" by Regina Spektor based on "High Fidelity").
A song that is about a film, but does not tell the story (e.g. Kill the Director by The Wombats.
A song that is written for the soundtrack of a film (e.g. 9 to 5" by Dolly Parton about Nine to Five).
A song that is written for the soundtrack of a film but does not appear on it (I think some of the songs about the Narnia films are in this category).
A parody (e.g. "The Saga Begins" by "Weird Al" Yankovic" about Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace).

There are probably more ways songs could be categorised and some songs fit into more than one of these categories. All these categories are interesting in some way, but it seems strange to include them all together in one list. Zabdiel (talk) 12:16, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It seems silly to me to include songs like "9 to 5", because in that case we could include almost any soundtrack song, whether or not the song title is also the movie title. I think it makes more sense to include songs that lyrically are based on a film itself. So Weird Al's "The Saga Begins" for example, or Metallica's "One", not songs written for films WillieBlues (talk) 05:13, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has a "List of songs that retell a work of literature". So just as we take that as the list of "songs based on a book", perhaps "songs that retell a film" would be a more accurate description for what sort of songs should go here, or at least should be separate from the rest. WillieBlues (talk) 23:17, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]