If you’re like me, you couldn’t resist spending all your money. There’s a longish drive early on, just after the basic mission about how to customize your car. In Saints Row 2, if you drive long enough while a certain song plays, your character will sing along. But it’s great for a reason, and not because I want to watch Louis CK listen to songs by a band I don’t even like. Okay, maybe I’m reading too much into the scene. It is the arc of a man’s life in one song, from youth to fatherhood. Before the song is over, it becomes about him sharing his enthusiasm with them, singing to them, playing with them in the mirror, nerding out while the roll their eyes. But he eventually involves his daughters, who are riding in the back seat, in the action. The scene, which has no dialogue and runs the entire length of Who Are You?, starts out being about Louie. It’s a scene about how some songs connect us with other parts of our lives, like childhood. This is a middle-aged man digging on The Who as if he was a teenager in his first car.
But it’s brilliant for its couple of extra layers of meaning. We all know what it’s like to rock out in the car. In the second season of Louie, there’s a long scene of Louis CK in the car singing along with The Who.
