Why Do Certain Tunes Draw Television Watchers In?
Have you ever been singing you’re favorite TV theme song to yourself at work and everyone joined in? That’s how you know you’re watching something good. All avid watchers know that a series, sitcom, or game show is nothing without its music.
Take “The Sopranos” theme song, entitled “Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One Mix)” by Alabama Three. Outside of being super catchy, it fits the show almost perfectly. The song is about an abused wife who shoots her husband of 20 years. If you watched the show, you would see how much Tony cheated on Carmela, and how she would look at him sometimes like she was the one who almost “Got her-self a gun”!
A sitcom that really fits its theme music is the one from “Living Single” by Queen Latifah. It’s about four young black female roomates living together in NYC, and the lyrics go “Keep ya head up-WHAT! Keep ya head up-That’s right/ Whenever this life gets tough, ya gotta fight with it/My homegirls standing to my left and my right/ True blue, we tight like glue”.
Finally, there’s no game show music like “Jeopardy”. Every time somebody’s thinking about something for a moment, someone’s always starts humming it.