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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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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that's kind of my thinking—that sincerity in a theme song felt like the emotional equivalent of going from 480p to 720p, like "look, we can use this new technology to act more like humans!"
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I never noticed it before, but the Perfect Strangers theme and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Jefferson Starship are basically the same song. The latter just has a more romantic "us against the world" vibe.
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