Random 1- Sing me Song

I saw this article on BBC news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7525242.stm

and I thought is was quite funny in that it actually made me recall the days when movies had theme songs bellowing, and sometimes making you hate the movie.

I have yet to see the new Batman flick (I will soon and will no doubt write on it) but I can tell, even before critics tell me, how dark it is and how different from the older films form the 90’s it is, following suit of Batman Begins obviously. Anyways, point. I think it’s a very wise choice not to have an ‘anthem’ for such a film. I mean, if I see Armageddon on TV I am nauseous from just thinking of hearing that stupid Aerosmith song, although I also don’t care for the movie either, but still. And although many people know and secretly like Kiss from a Rose by Seal it did evoke a sense of romantic cheese date stamp on Batman Forever (which was not great to begin with.)

However, I would say that some movie themes are welcomed. After all, movies like 9 to 5 encourage campy tunes and ridiculous ear worms (get out of my head Parton!) and the Blue’s Brothers using I’m a Soul Man seems fitting for the type of movie its intended for. Comedy can be different I think, but it can also use the type of irritating songs that are then featured ten years down the road in car sales parodies or Yogurt commercials i.e. case in point Flashdance’s What a Feeling.

Other purposely cheesy films understandably partner up with musicians for themes, like James Bond 007’s Live and Let Die, but I personally don’t think of that original Wings song as for the movie, in fact I don’t think of it much at all, but at least its not the G and R rendition.

So movie themes, for many take seriously films, may have gone the way of the Dodo but I would like to say….bring back TV themes!

For a few shows, like Lost, I agree it would not fit the mood of the show to have, oh I don’t know, let’s say The Police’s Message in a Bottle play (haha can you imagine) or even any other originally composed score, rather the simple eerie noise and chilling score are much more agreeable. But, other shows are plain crap and cheese anyway so why not place a catchy tune in our heads that we can remember 10 years later and sing a long to a la The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and feel old. I mean, I never do that, ahem.

Even a dumb drunken sounding tune like the theme for How I Met Your Mother, makes me happy, so bring them back and stop just flashing you dumb title up in different fonts.

Although for some bands I am not sure it would be all that great, or rather for the song. Recall the theme from the O.C (who is that again?) and Remy Zero from Smalleville, I mean no one will ever hear that and not think of Tom Welling and teenage angst.