John Phillip Bogulski & Tarrah Lee Curtis

The Fray – “Little House”

Anyone who knew me in college may think this song is cheating. But it’s hard to not include this song when this song defined my college experience and the lives of many others. (I’m assuming. I can’t speak on the behalf of everyone else involved.) This isn’t exactly the song The Fray is known for, and I just happened to come across it randomly on my iPod freshman year of college when I was on the lookout for a theme song for the show I was creating with my friend for Student Video Productions. Even though theme songs were dying out even then, it was important for me to find a song that would be forever tied to the show. So whenever you hear it, you would think of the show. And I succeeded at least in my own brain. The first time I heard it, I just knew I had to use it. Even before the cast was set, I created a 50 second version of the song, editing it in two separate places to get exactly the portion I wanted. I barely understand music principles, and cutting songs is not my strong suit, but for this song I knew exactly what I wanted. 

Take it back when it all began

Take your time, would you understand

What it’s all about?

Something scratching its way out

Something you want to forget about

No one expects you to get up

All on your own with no one around

Those are the lyrics I hard that spoke to me. The show was a drama about 10 college friends who have stayed friends since high school even though they really shouldn’t have. There’s murder, secrets, betrayal, and all the other fun stuff you want in a show. The song just really encapsulated everything about the show, which I’m sure is exactly what The Fray intended. Friends not trusting each other, working against each other, and slowly dying off one by one. So much of making “Fallout” was finding music, and most every song I loved up until college made its way onto the show and became forever tied to “Fallout” for the rest of my life. Part of the reason why it’s so hard to come up with 5 songs that have meaning is if they had meaning before almost all of them are tied to the show. But this song was always the show. The first time I heard it, it became the show. There is no way I could ever hear the song differently. It makes me think of the show itself, which I’m very proud of, as well as all the work that went behind it. Making 26 episodes each 40 minutes in length over 3 years was an intense work, but because of the people I got to work with and the amazing experience I had, the song probably fills me with most joy of any other song.

“Fallout” Music Video for “Little House”