I think I feel bad for Louis Armstrong (and Bob Thiele and George David Weiss).
Every time I hear "What a Wonderful World" played on a TV show or movie, it's always juxtaposed against a particularly gruesome or dystopian scene:
Good Morning Vietnam
Bowling for Columbine
The Simpsons (when Lisa takes prescription drugs to "ignore it all")
and I'm sure many others.
It's only fault was being too great of a song; too uplifting. Now whenever I hear that song, my natural reaction is to become sad because I know that somewhere, something bad is happening. That song is simply the soundtrack to whatever bad act is occurring.
Nice dystopian font choice.
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