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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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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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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