This seemed like it was going to be easy. I was about to go ahead and say that it's Paula Cole, singing "I Don't Want to Wait," one of the great pop-songs-as-theme-songs in TV history, but that's because I haven't checked in on "Dawson's Creek" in a while.

If you're watching it on Netflix these days, or on some DVD releases, you're hearing a different theme: "Run Like Mad" by Canadian pop star Jann Arden.

That may be disappointing for original fans, but it was a rather clever selection. Swapping out the theme song of a beloved show always risks angering the purists in the audience, but picking "Run Like Mad" kind of out-pures the purists because it was the producers' original choice. It was, in fact, written and recorded specifically for use as the "Dawson's Creek" theme.

The story goes that, after commissioning Arden to do the theme, the show's producers put together a series of promotional videos for the show with various then-current pop songs in the background. A WB Network exec saw the one with "I Don't Want to Wait" on the soundtrack and asked the producers to use that as the theme instead.

They did, but unfortunately they only cleared the song rights for broadcast and the first two seasons of a DVD release. And now the rights holders aren't willing to shell out for more.

Despite things coming back full circle to Arden's song, no one's really happy with the arrangement (pun not intended, but gladly left in).

Cole is downright angry. "Not only do I have to deal … with my name being both married to and usurped by the success of that show, but, even worse, I'm now being erased from the association with 'Dawson's Creek' due to [what feels to me like] corporate greed," she fumed in an interview with the Huffington Post.

Arden's a little annoyed, too, but with herself. She told the Huffington Post (for a different story) that people are now asking her where they can hear the rest of "Run Like Mad." "I have to explain to them, 'That is the full version.' I was so naive that I only wrote 32 seconds of song."

That being said, if you are watching the series on Netflix, the final episode of the series still features Cole's song despite all other episodes featuring Arden's.

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