I've had literally all of the Wandavision themes stuck in my head for like a week
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
It's a really good example of doing all these different stylistic riffs on the same basic theme (which was deliberately chosen to be "alien" and uncanny)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
The same "alien phrase" (a falling octave rising back up to a tritone -- the "devil's interval" -- then up a half-step again to turn the devil's interval into a perfect fifth) can be a soothing bossa nova refrain or an angry punk rock hook just as easily, it turns out
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Replying to @arthur_affect
yeah it's particularly diabolical because while all the songs are pretty different melodically, the same phrase means that they all get tied together in an extremely memorable earworm
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
I think the most recent one is the most impressive Like just a perfect job of telling you what song it's supposed to be (the theme of The Office) without actually being that song in any legally actionable way, and also still being the WandaVision theme
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Fun tidbits: The '70s WandaVision theme is titled "We've Got Something Cookin'", which the songwriters have never publicly admitted is a reference to "Too Many Cooks" but obviously is
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
The lead singer on the Malcolm in the Middle punk theme is Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill They wanted it to be a "riot grrl" song in reference to the female-centric themes of the show, although in context it comes off as Tommy and Billy singing the song
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It's pretty impressive how the natural transition from the Family Ties opening to the casually grunge-inflected Malcolm in the Middle sequence, despite being a natural cultural transition, also perfectly epitomizes the show's narrative of a simple domestic life falling to chaos
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Right, and the sort of meandering, surreal, laid-back pace of a Michael Schur sitcom in contrast to something like Malcolm in the Middle is a sign of Wanda falling into a deep depression
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It's kind of a snarky jab at the modern sitcom format that when Wanda enters this era it's because she's completely given up maintaining the consistency of her world Breaking the fourth wall and just directly saying what she thinks to the camera because who gives a shit
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Asking Homer Simpson "hey, didn't you used to have a job?" and he's like "eh"
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
It totally is the thing where as a sitcom's writer's room loses interest in the kid characters they gradually get Chuck Cunninghamed off the show entirely
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