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Spoon - The Underdog

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Spoon - The Underdog/Label Merge. The song is sort of a hidden treasure. The band performed the The Underdog on the October 6, 2007 episode of the 33rd season of Saturday Night Live, and also appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2007.   The Underdog was featured in the 2008 monster horror film Cloverfield, the 2009 films I Love You, Man (bromantic comedy)   and 17 Again () , in the opening and ending scene of the 2011 film Horrible Bosses , and in the 2017 film Spider-Man: Homecoming . A music video for the song was directed by Keven McAllester. Best lyric excerpt ... You got no fear of the underdog That’s why you will not survive Songwriter Britt Daniel See also ... TV Live: Spoon - "The Underdog" (Letterman 2007) - YouTube Cloverfield - Wikipedia I Love You, Man - Wikipedia 17 Again (film) - Wikipedia Horrible Bosses - Wikipedia Spider-Man: Homecoming - Wikipedia

"Some Nights" by Fun, and by New Directions Choir Group

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Some Nights was covered by the entire New Directions choir group in the Dynamic Duets episode of Glee. Some Nights is by American indie rock band Fun, and was released on June 4, 2012 in the second studio album with the same name. The album  Some Nights  topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and Alternative Songs for two weeks, with over six million digital downloads. We Are Young also caught attention through the Fox television series Glee covering Some Nights. The band was in shock at the news, with Dost saying that "that's just one of the coolest things that could possibly have happened." Glee's cover of "We Are Young" was the show's highest selling debut single of their season and connected their listening audience to the band. In the United States, Some Nights debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 the same week as the album Some Nights debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200. The song remained in the lower region of the chart for a...