🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

Day 2: Excellent TV show theme song, regardless if you like the show
(would have posted this on Day 1 but I forgot!) +2 points for 2 women. eta: +1 point granted from the thread-god! 🤗

So I'm going to stretch the spirit of rule a bit.

Theme songs are not necessarily the same as a Leitmotif, the song played at the intro to a TV show. Theme songs can be a song used during the show/film, take for example Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter, or Imperial March from Star Wars. Anyone would argue that they are the embodiment of their respective films.

I won't go into detail, but growing up I had serious issues coming to terms with who I was. Something that helped me was the Rrrriot Grrrl scene, women in punk, and after that came the post-punk era.

Enter: Tegan And Sara. Queer icons, both gay. Their openness gave me confidence, their music inspired me, and they were obviously my first celebrity crushes.

In 2022 their memoirs were turned into a TV show: High School. It's an excellent show (and an excellent book) made special because it's about two gay women growing up, but it doesn't focus on their sexuality. It's a trait of theirs, but it is not the onus of their being. In fact, I don't believe it's even mentioned. It's normalized. This is so very very rare when showcasing gay women in media.

In the show we get to watch T&S as they discover music, and take their first wobbly steps into composing.
So I'd like to present one of their first songs, the theme of the show, and their lives distilled:

Tegan And Sara - Hey, I'm Just Like You.
Sometimes, you get so tired of pretending like you're so strong
Everyone you love has gone and decided that you're so wrong


 
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Day 2: Excellent TV show theme song, regardless if you like the show
(would have posted this on Day 1 but I forgot!) +2 points for 2 women.

So I'm going to stretch the spirit of rule a bit.

Theme songs are not necessarily the same as a Leitmotif, the song played at the intro to a TV show. Theme songs can be a song used during the show/film, take for example Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter, or Imperial March from Star Wars. Anyone would argue that they are the embodiment of their respective films.

I won't go into detail, but growing up I had serious issues coming to terms with who I was. Something that helped me was the Rrrriot Grrrl scene, women in punk, and after that came the post-punk era.

Enter: Tegan And Sara. Queer icons, both gay. Their openness gave me confidence, their music inspired me, and they were obviously my first celebrity crushes.

In 2022 their memoirs were turned into a TV show: High School. It's an excellent show (and an excellent book) made special because it's about two gay women growing up, but it doesn't focus on their sexuality. It's a trait of theirs, but it is not the onus of their being. This is so very very rare when showcasing gay women in media.

In the show we get to watch T&S as they discover music, and take their first wobbly steps into composing.
So I'd like to present one of their first songs, the theme of the show, and their lives distilled:

Tegan And Sara - Hey, I'm Just Like You.

I need to watch this now. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. ❤
 
Day 2: Excellent TV show theme song, regardless if you like the show

I should probably switch yesterdays post with todays post. O well, brain is full and sometimes things pop up later.

The Young Ones.

 
I need to watch this now. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. ❤
:heart::heart: Thank you! I really hope you'll enjoy it. Bonus trivia: when searching for actors to play them, T&S found a pair of identical twins on tiktok. They had no singing background, no acting background, but T&S absolutely loved them. They coached them in acting, singing, everything, and brought them on to the show. And they killed it. There's something raw about them that just enhances how awkward T&S were themselves.
 
Day 2: Excellent TV show theme song, regardless if you like the show
(would have posted this on Day 1 but I forgot!) +2 points for 2 women.

So I'm going to stretch the spirit of rule a bit.

Theme songs are not necessarily the same as a Leitmotif, the song played at the intro to a TV show. Theme songs can be a song used during the show/film, take for example Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter, or Imperial March from Star Wars. Anyone would argue that they are the embodiment of their respective films.

I won't go into detail, but growing up I had serious issues coming to terms with who I was. Something that helped me was the Rrrriot Grrrl scene, women in punk, and after that came the post-punk era.

Enter: Tegan And Sara. Queer icons, both gay. Their openness gave me confidence, their music inspired me, and they were obviously my first celebrity crushes.

In 2022 their memoirs were turned into a TV show: High School. It's an excellent show (and an excellent book) made special because it's about two gay women growing up, but it doesn't focus on their sexuality. It's a trait of theirs, but it is not the onus of their being. In fact, I don't believe it's even mentioned. It's normalized. This is so very very rare when showcasing gay women in media.

In the show we get to watch T&S as they discover music, and take their first wobbly steps into composing.
So I'd like to present one of their first songs, the theme of the show, and their lives distilled:

Tegan And Sara - Hey, I'm Just Like You.
Sometimes, you get so tired of pretending like you're so strong
Everyone you love has gone and decided that you're so wrong


Loved this show. Love T&S. Didn’t know it was a book!! Going to have to check it out. Thanks 💟

+1 bonus point for great pick
 
Day 2: Excellent TV show theme song, regardless if you like the show

C’mon C’mon ~ The Von Bondies

This was the theme song for the show “Rescue Me” with Dennis Leary playing a firefighter and all the drama and chaos surrounding him. I liked the show and also really like the song.

 
Day 2: Excellent TV show theme song, regardless if you like the show

Weird fact about me - I grew up in a house with no television for a huge portion of my childhood, so I never got into TV shows like my peers. Everyone I knew loved this show and although it's cool to me, it certainly doesn't invoke the same nostalgia in me that it does for others

I love this song, though 😁


Boss of Me - They Might Be Giants
 
Bonus points!

I’m doing something a little different this month.
Play or don’t play, doesn’t matter to me. Just another way to make things fun. Please don’t feel pressured in any way to do this additional part and I’m definitely not expecting any perfect scores.

You can collect points all month long! There will be some 1-day bonus points, announced day of, and a few for the entire month.

Please track your own points. Honor system.
*Breaking the cardinal rule will disqualify you for the month*

March is women’s month!
+1 if the artist is a woman, or
+2 if the artists are multiple women


+5 for dedicating a song to me 👑 (this can only be used once in the month)

+5 for perfect attendance

Points might be awarded at random as well. Haven’t decided about that part.
People with the highest points at the end of the month will win… something 🥳.
I have a 'rules' question: is perfect attendance defined as posting a song every day, or a song for every day, regardless of when?
 
Day 2: Excellent TV show theme song, regardless if you like the show

Attempting to go in a completely different direction from last night's song choice...
I've listened to this theme song so many times and I still can't decide whether it's a surrealistic deconstructionist work of absolute genius, or just abject foolishness (most likely about dead centre between those polarities)... but all I can say with certainty is that this song will be stuck in my head for days. "How do you like the theme to Garry's show?"

It's Garry Shandling's Show

I will argue this is among the greatest TV themes ever. It perfectly sets the viewer up for what is to come. And what to come is genius. Gary Shandling was so fucking ahead of the curve, no one paid attention.
 
Day 2 - an excellent TV show theme song regardless of whether or not you liked the show:

"We Used to be Friends", the Dandy Wahols (Theme from Veronica Mars) (+1)

Once again, Puddlestomp, represent! Another Portland band I had the joy of seeing a lot, including the stupendously talented Zia McCabe, who I may have had a small crush on. (She also plays country in the band Brush Prairie (a Vancouver reference), and as DJ Rescue).

Yesterday I did a BuffyVerse song, and Veronica Mars was a spiritual successor to Buffy. Except where Buffy used vampires and demons as metaphors for the horrible things in life growing up, Veronica Mars used horrible things in life growing up. "Want to know who took my virginity? So do I," set the tone for the show. It had good and not so good seasons, but Season 1 is up there with anything on TV.

And this song is First Season all over the place, as Veronica loses everything she thought she had, including all her friends, as she tries to solve her best friend's murder. And not get kicked out of high school.


For me, because I am crappy at keeping track, and really love bonus points: +3
 
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