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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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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But they kind of made that the expected style and it stuck for a decade and a half Like yeah I guess you could say people really did want sincerity at that time and previous eras' overt tweeness and goofiness felt old-fashioned
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Yeah, that makes a lot of sense And I can see why they kept coming back to that well, they were enormously talented (the Family Matters theme is REALLY catchy in particular)
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The theme to Perfect Strangers really stands out for me as being so absurdly over the top triumphant for the garden variety sitcom it's attached to that I kinda love it
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The frustrating thing about Family Guy and American Dad is that you would THINK the content of those theme songs exists to lampoon the dissonance between the theme songs and the content in previous shows but nope Seth just loves showtunes and doesn't give a fuck about aesthetic
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