(Fan)works that altered your associations with songs

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There have been a few times when a particular fanwork (usually a fanmix or vid) has permanently changed my associations with a song, and it fits so well that I can only think of it as being about a particular character/pairing/canon. For example:

• Total Eclipse of the Heart (literal version): Revolutionary Girl Utena thanks to the vid Total Eclipse of the Heartsword
  
• Girl With One Eye: Vriska from Homestuck via the fanmix Just As Horrible as Me (it's a Terezi/Vriska mix but I think of it as more of an Aradia/Vriska song)
  
• Hide and Seek: Battlestar Gallactica via Meant Well: The Occupation despite TEN MILLION "mmm whatcha say" videos on tumblr
  
• Cosmic Love: Puella Magi Madoka Magica (and Homura/Madoka in particular) from the vid Mahou Shoujo Requiem
  
• Handlebars The Doctor, though I've seen it fit well for a number of characters.
  
• Seamstress: Nikita&Alex from Nikita from the vid Seamstress
  

Does anyone else have any examples? Preferably where the lyrics really do fit surprisingly well. Or just songs which are remarkable fits where you thought of the connection independently.

If you don't do fanworks, I guess songs from movies/tv where it fit the scene PERFECTLY and you no longer hear it as being about the original subject. But songs written for the soundtrack don't count :)

EDIT: Hee, and here's a vid which matches an association I got from just hearing the song: Take me To Church to Lucrecia and Cesare from The Borgias. I haven't even watched the show but I have a friend who goes on about it a lot, and the song really is perfect.

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Oh gosh you know you may have convinced me on Cosmic Love there, "you left me in the dark" works so well for God and angels (in Puella Magi Madoka Magica their hearts literally go black with despair, which also works pretty well) There's a bunch of great Supernatural vids taking advantage of all those songs about God and Hell etc. God Says Nothing Back comes to mind, and wow have those lyrics just gotten more relevant as the show's gone on (I've only watched bits of Supernatural but I hear a lot through osmosis. And it's a great source of vids)

Iron is a pretty amazing fit for Game of Throne too from those of the lyrics I can make out :)

And yess Bachelorette, I should totally have included that vid, thanks for reminding me. "I am a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl". The other classic use of that is for Revolutionary Girl Utena, though there's less literal blood and being drunk from so I think Buffy wins.