Campaign music: Hillary plays the Sopranos card

This morning someone forwarded me a very disturbing note from a keen-eyed Clinton backer: “As someone who is still pro-Hillary I was not happy to read that as she left today’s rally in PA the [public address system speakers] played Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believin’.” Two salient facts about this song: It’s one of the worst, most cloying pop songs ever recorded, and it is also, infamously, the soundtrack to the closing moments of the last Sopranos episode.

That’s right: As the Pennsylvania primary race draws to an end, someone in the Clinton camp has seen fit to pull out a song now popularly associated with the last public moments of the Soprano clan. It’s the music Tony hears as he realizes that the rest of his life will consist of one close call after another as he navigates a world filled with enemies he’s made over the course of a lifetime — until the day it all collapses in a bloody showdown.

Has an ironist infiltrated the Clinton campaign, or what? If so, the Monitor offers two more memorable soundtrack interludes that could yet turn up as the musical codas to Clinton rallies.

Suggestion number one

Suggestion number two