5 Oddly Specific Movie Tropes Hollywood Is Obsessed With Right Now

It's common for movies to feature a song or two, whether it's playing over a montage, the opening credits, or - in cases like Baby Driver and Guardians Of The Galaxy - the music is the heart and soul of the film.

What's not common is for a bunch of movies - released around the same time - to feature music from the same artist, and in some cases, the same song from that same artist. But strangely, this exact phenomenon has been happening recently, with folk music artist John Denver seemingly being Hollywood's go-to source for a killer movie soundtrack.

In 2017, Alien: Covenant, Logan Lucky and Kingsman: The Golden Circle all featured Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads", rather prominently, with the latter using it to reinforce and heighten the emotion during an explosive death scene. *cries*.

But that's not all. Recently, Free Fire and Okja both utilised another hit Denver track, Annie's Song. None of these five movies we've mentioned are connected in any way (besides the fact that Covenant and Kingsman are Fox properties), so what's with this sudden boom in Denver-obsessed movie producers?

According to Amy Abrams, a manager of the artist's estate (via Vulture), the answer is annoyingly simple: more and more studios are requesting his songs.

This makes sense; a lot of people making movies today will have grown up with Denver as a prominent icon, so now, he's one of the first singers they think of when searching for the perfect track for their scene. Country roaaaads, take me hoooooome!

Any other oddly specific recent tropes you noticed? Let us know in the comments section!