Its fourth season “Stranger Things” In addition to being the most ambitious successful Netflix series to date, it also holds a surprise that even its creators probably didn’t expect. In a scene in the fourth episode of the cycle, Max (played by Sandy Sink) manages to confront Vekna by listening to “Get on top” her Kate Bush.

Of course, it was heard not only by the heroine of the series, since soon the song became viral and “broke the counters” of streams, as well as some Guinness record. Somehow, Gen Z met Kate Bush, and the art-pop priestess has been heard in every possible and unexpected place over the past year (she herself sees that the bank account shows a plus for 2022). All this, with one song released 37 years ago (now 38).

And not only her: metallica, again they saw it “Puppeteer” again appear in the charts precisely because the track from the 1986 album of the same name, in turn, sounded in Stranger Things.

As we have already said, music, as always, dusts off its books. She loves the past, which brings back to the fore in every possible way, whether it’s auditioning Kate Bush and Metallica in “Stranger Things” or “Something’s on the Way” from Nirvana at the decisive moment of the last “Batman” or even a viral video with sounds Fleetwood Mac a few years ago in TIK Tak.

And history repeats itself – or at least tends to do so – this time with its main characters. Depeche Mode.

If you’re “walking” the Internet streets, it’s almost impossible not to see words from the last few days. “Last of us”, uh, everywhere. Her popular video game of the same name playful puppy from 2013 pledged to make in 2023 a series about Craig Mazin (also behind Chernobyl) along with the creator of the video game himself Neil Druckman, on his account HBO.

In the TV version of The Last of Us, we follow him. Joel (Pedro Pascal) and teenager Eli (Bella Ramsey) who, after the outbreak of a deadly virus, are trying to escape from the quarantine zone they are in in post-apocalyptic America.

The series was already heralded before its release as the best video game adaptation we’ve ever seen, at the same time, as everything shows, it is very likely that at the end of the year we will talk about The best show we’ve seen this year.

So far in his air HBO Max the first episode of The Last of Us was released, a soulful one and a half hour first chapter, which, without exaggeration, is now watched by almost everyone.

In the same way that the video game used songs for its storytelling, the TV adaptation already seems to be doing the same. So if you see your friends these days suddenly listening to this “Never Let Me Down Again” from Depeche Mode, rest assured they just came out of the first episode of The Last of Us.

At the end of the first episode, there is a coded message for the characters, disguised as a track from a British record. “Music for the Masses” from 1987.

Will a Depeche Mode track replace Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill”? However, we already find it in his various videos. tik tak but also in… moments of pure bigotry, such as the one below:

#Last of us fans who also #Depeche Mode fans when Never Let Me Down Again started at the endpic.twitter.com/YLKeRvBER6

— Debbie 🜃 #Save1899 (@Maglex1) January 17, 2023

For reference, when it was first released, “Never Let Me Down Again” rose to #22 in the UK charts though it’s a perennial favorite in the Depeche Mode catalogue.

Returning to The Last of Us, the soundtrack to the first episode turns its antennae not only to the 80s, but also to the 00s, since that is where we hear “Tomorrow” her Avril lavigne but also “White flag” her Dido. However, we should have already figured it out from that “teasing” version of him. “Take me” from yeah which we already heard from the trailer of the series.

“I ride with my best friend” So, and see if this path will lead Depeche Mode to the charts.