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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Feb 23

      I've spent a lot of the past few days thinking about eighties sitcom theme songs and wondering what cultural evolution led to all of them having these deeply sincere, soulful lyrics set to very cool, jazzy melodies Like the preceding decade's theme songs were cheery and frenetic

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    2. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Feb 23

      Were the theme songs of the previous decade just regarded as overtly saccharine and insincere? So the equivalent of "emotional verisimilitude" was lyrics about, like, sincere dedication to each other and promising to beat the odds?

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    3. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Feb 23

      I guess with the eighties being the Reagan era it kind of makes sense that there would be a lot of romanticizing Michael Bolton kinda paeans about the strength of familial love that gradually transitioned to a sanitized grunge disillusionment in the nineties but idk

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
      Replying to @Nymphomachy

      You could talk about broad social trends about the '80s being an era when America buried its head in the sand and embraced conservatism and its accompanying sentimentality Although it may have just been a few specific people's success coloring our view of the era

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      Frederick and Salvay were a songwriting team who made it big in the '80s with their signature style for sitcom theme songs -- they really liked big, epic lyrics with a soaring, heartstring-tugging melody

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      The producer duo Thomas Miller and Robert Boyett (Miller-Boyett Productions), who'd already made Mork and Mindy and Laverne and Shirley, took a shine to Frederick and Salvay and commissioned theme songs for their big '80s hits from them

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

          They're the ones who wrote the Perfect Strangers theme ("Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now"), the Full House theme ("Everywhere You Look"), the Family Matters theme ("As Days Go By"), the Step by Step theme ("Second Time Around")

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

          Nowadays we might say that these lyrics come off as really melodramatic and overwrought for the kind of show they're actually about, like the whole defiant "It's MY life, it's MY dream/Nothing's gonna stop me now" is a bit much for Balki Bartoukomos' life story

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