![]() ![]() The Lifetime-channel-worthy sequence between Walker and costar Vin Diesel is captured, virtually in toto, in the “See You Again” music video. Walker, a co-lead in six of the seven Fast and Furious movies, is given a long sendoff at the close of Furious 7. It’s serving as a take-home souvenir of the movie’s poignant farewell to late actor Paul Walker. (Does anybody remember “ I See You (Theme from Avatar)” by Leona Lewis?) But Khalifa’s and Puth’s maudlin piano-and-rap ballad is not just riding the Furious box-office wave. Billion-dollar-generating movies don’t always spawn world-conquering No. 1 in more than a dozen countries worldwide, mirroring the global blockbuster movie that birthed the song, Furious 7. In addition to spending a second week on top here in America (a streak it’s likely to extend), “See” is No. ![]() 1 song on Billboard’s flagship Hot 100 chart. (That Ian-he may not have fussed over the difference between inches and feet, but when it came to selling records, the man was a seer.)ĭeath and cinema are the key reasons “See You Again” by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth is the No. Bring that elegiac tune to movie screens, and it’s a commercial juggernaut. Of course, Spinal Tap manager Ian Faith was saying this about an album with a none-more-black cover, featuring songs with titles like “Hell Hole.” But as history has shown time and again, if you combine death with a hopeful melody, music fans will flock to it in large numbers. “Every movie in every cinema is about death,” a wise man once said. ![]()
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