No one would ever attempt to claim that this comedy about two buddies trying to break into the fashion business β an unofficial attempt at an East Coast Entourage β is among the great HBO shows of all time. And when Kohan started to think about a song for her Netflix prison show Orange Is the New Black a few years later, she turned again to Spektor. Frankly, a list like this could be filled top to bottom with Westerns, given how many cowboy shows grab viewers with galloping tempos and energetic twang.
Though this series is a mature drama about the changing cultural mores in s Nevada, the credits music is downright rollicking, with its rapidly strummed guitars and pumping horns.
This pilot did take off β and King began appearing occasionally as a record-shop owner in Stars Hollow beginning in Season Two. Mike Post already had experience creating theme songs for Hill Street Blues and The Rockford File s when Dick Wolf tapped him to create an intro for his new police procedural. After 23 years, the song and show are still going strong. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
In a certain sense, we all do. Though the song has become instantly recognizable, the scene itself seems almost disconnected from the reality of the show; shot in March , a few months before the series premiered, it features Carrie getting splashed by a bus that bears her face β a fitting metaphor for the rest of the series, but with a character whom the star was still figuring out.
It flitters. It flutters. It whistles at you like some unidentified creature in a dark forest at night. Dunnn da dun dunn dunnnnnnn.
