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I didn't realize this was an original recording for the show.
I had a funny feeling they were going to play this song, and I smiled when this cover started playing. I didn't realize it was Rufus Wainwright! Good stuff.
I understand that many people are quite enthusiastic about the music for this show, and are quite moved by this rendition of this song.
I am truly bored by it. My parter and our oldest GenZ both replied, “What music?”when I asked them what I thought at the end of episode 2.
Is there some deep American Millennial music preference that this is tapping into that none of our household quite understands?
I overall loved the choice to use it and orchestral arrangement especially, really got my attention after all the action and made me lean in to the moment and the show. What I didn't love was Rufus Wainright's overly syrup-y vocals. Really would have preferred the original remixed with the orchestral arrangement.
That said, I do wonder if over time this is going to grow on me and become another Faith of the Heart. 😁
I think you’ve hit it right on the head!
I’ve been thinking that this is going to be precisely as divisive among fans as the syrupy, and very American-centric, cover of Faith of the Heart for Enterprise.
Fortunately, for those who weren’t enjoying that music choice, it won’t be the title music every episode.
The title music is boring but innocuous for our household at least.
TBH this piece didn't resonate with me at the time, but I have to admit it's just about perfect, thematically.
I'm not a huge fan of the opening theme, but c'est la vie.
The opening theme was just weird! But I said the same thing about DS9 and Enterprise.
Now I love the DS9 theme. So maybe Academy's will grow on me, too.
I don’t know.
If anything, me and my younger sibling were actively annoyed by a lot of the show’s music choices, and modern show music in general. In both this show and recent Stranger Things seasons, they put music in every single moment, even moments that should be silent.
Are your siblings younger Millennials or GenZs.
They definitely have different ideas about music and sound tracks.
One of our GenZ kids likes a wide range of music, but most of it is from the 1960s to 1980s. But there’s a lot of KPop blasting in house too.
Late gen Z, generally modern indie centric tastes; there might be a deeper genre name than that, but that’s what I can think of off the top of my head. Also has some 70s-90s stuff, including picking up a few of my favorite They Might Be Giants songs, mostly Lincoln-era stuff.
Did anyone else find it a little odd and out of place?
I would say "yes" to "odd" (or at least unusual), and "no" to "out of place".
I find the original song odd. It was recorded to promote the Monterey International Pop Festival. Monterey is 120 miles north of San Francisco.
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