Dan Finnerty profaned Bonnie Tyler's hit in 'Old School.' He regrets the f-bombs at her shows

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Set us as preferred For a certain swath of millennials, Dan Finnerty’s rendition of Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of The Heart” in the frat comedy “Old School” is its definitive performance.In the 2003 film, The Dan Band’s sweaty, inappropriately exuberant version of the ‘80s power ballad upstages Will Ferrell’s wedding.The scene forever changed the lyrics of Tyler’s hit to something much more profane, but no less yearning.After Tyler’s death at 75, Finnerty (who played a similar role in “The Hangover,” among many other comedies) reflected on his sideways journey into Tyler’s career, and how one quick scene on a two-decade-old comedy still endures.You’ve had a pretty unique relationship to Bonnie Tyler’s music, how are you feeling after she passed?It’s definitely sad.

Everybody is texting me.I never met her, but what an impact she had on me.

I grew up right when “Total Eclipse” came out in the ‘80s, and it was such a huge song at the time.It had never left my head.

I was always just belting that song out because it’s so epic, from Jim Steinman’s writing to Bonnie’s performance.Why does that moment from “Old School” still endure? It arrived at the last cusp of the DVD era before culture transitioned into the internet and streaming video.Without YouTube and the internet, you really had to grab pop culture moments from your memory.That’s definitely one of the reasons why pulling it out seemed obscure when we did “Old School.” People were like, “Oh my God, yes, I love this f— song.” Which is so different now because everything’s at your fingertips, so you can’t really rely on like pulling back some nostalgia moment because it’s always around anyway now with the internet.

But people were reacting as much to me dropping the f-bombs as the nostalgia of the song, ...