Expert: Carmen Curtis - 6/16/2007

Question
I was wondering if you knew why they change the songs on the DVD? I was really looking forward to hearing "Losing My Religion" when Brenda and Dylan break up. I mean that is their song, right? I hope they don't change it in the episode where Brenda listens to it in her room after Dylan makes his decison.

Answer
Hi Kaelyn,

Their official excuse is that obtaining music clearance from the original artists was too expensive to do (since I supposed they would have to pay to have each song on the official release), and it was faster to just change the music and release the DVDs. I was relieved that the music is unchanged for episodes where the actual artist is on the show, like the Color Me Badd episode where Donna sees her mom having an affair. But I agree, all of us fans are very disappointed that they did not keep at least some of the original songs for other key episodes.

Hope this helps,
Carmen