#13: The Music Already Worked Like a Modern Edit
The Sopranos used popular music with unusual confidence, often allowing cheerful or familiar songs to collide with dread, violence, or emotional collapse. Journey, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, and less obvious selections do narrative work rather than merely decorate scenes. That juxtaposition anticipated an editing language now everywhere online: pair emotionally inappropriate music with disturbing or mundane footage, and the contrast creates meaning. The series understood musical irony before short-form platforms made grammar.
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