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Once again, a buzzy TV amusement is to convey for introducing a caller procreation to a beloved euphony icon.
After Linda Ronstadt's 1970 opus "Long Long Time" was utilized during the Jan. 29 occurrence of HBO's The Last of Us, it saw a 4,900% summation successful streams connected Spotify.
According to the streaming service, the opus saw the spike betwixt 11 p.m. and midnight ET, close aft the occurrence aired.
The opus was utilized successful a country featuring Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett), 2 men who signifier a narration successful the midst of a planetary pandemic. After Bill allows Frank into his home, Frank notices his soft and rummages done the expanse euphony successful his bench.
He finds The Best of Linda Ronstadt, turns to a page, says, "Oh my god, it's my favorite," and starts playing.
The song, of course, is "Long Long Time."
He doesn't marque it precise far, however, arsenic Bill stops the off-key show saying, "Not this song, not this song."
Frank gets up and insists that Bill performs the opus instead, which helium does, reluctantly. "Love volition abide, instrumentality things successful stride," helium sings. "Sounds similar a bully advice, but there's nary 1 astatine my broadside / And clip washes clean, love's wounds unseen / That's what idiosyncratic told me, but I don't cognize what it means."
Bill finishes the show singing, "I deliberation I'm going to emotion you for a long, agelong time."
The opus is aboriginal played arsenic Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), years later, propulsion retired of Bill and Frank's location aft recovering a car near down by the pair.
"Long Long Time" past plays implicit the extremity credits of the episode.
The song, which spent 12 weeks connected the Billboard Hot 100 successful 1970 and earned Ronstadt a Grammy nomination, mightiness present beryllium preparing for a akin trajectory to Kate Bush's "Running up That Hill (A Deal with God)."
Used during a pivotal infinitesimal during the 4th play of Stranger Things, Bush's opus catapulted each the mode wrong the apical 5 connected the Billboard Hot 100 successful June 2022—over 36 years since its merchandise successful 1985.
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The Last of Us co-creator Craig Mazin said helium struggled to find the close opus to lucifer the episode's affectional gut punch—so helium enlisted a person for immoderate help.
"I could not find the close opus for the beingness of me," Craig told Variety. "I was trying and trying, and past I texted my person Seth Rudetsky, who is the big of Sirius XM connected Broadway and a savant. I told him, ‘Here's each the things I need,' and 2 seconds later: ‘Linda Ronstadt, "Long Long Time.' I was like, 'There it is. That's it!'"
The Last of Us airs Sundays astatine 9 p.m. connected HBO and episodes are disposable to watercourse connected HBO Max.
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