It has this weird, sinister tone to it.”Ĭomedian Demi Adejuyigbe took a more sing-song-y approach to his variation on the Succession theme, which he felt compelled to add his own lyrics to as the second season continued to accrue buzz. “If I were to describe the tone of the song, it sounds like a bright, evil grin in darkness. “I have played the song at a party before and, like, the three other people who knew the show were jamming to it hardcore with me,” he says. Ishii’s tweet jokes about him playing the show’s signature tune as soon as he gets ahold of the aux cord at a party - something that actually sort of happened. When someone hands me the aux cord at the party /kj5kpEQttQ- bowi3 June 18, 2019 “That epicness is probably what people like about it, and what makes it actually listenable - not just in the show, but whenever you’re doing whatever you’re doing during the day.”
It makes for a great entrance,” says Shinichi Ishii, who in June tweeted out a Succession theme meme that’s racked up thousands of likes. “It has this big ceremony to it - both the show and the song. “That lends itself to more remixes and parodies and stuff like that, that’s almost completely disassociated from the show itself.”Įven if the fervor surrounding the Succession theme can feel somewhat separate from the HBO satire, there’s no doubt that part of the song’s appeal is that it makes you feel as though you’re in the world of the show, just steps away from a waiting helicopter or within arm’s reach of a, uh, “hyper-decanter.” “The Succession theme works almost more in line with meme songs that bubble up from nowhere, because Succession isn’t the biggest hit in the world, but the song goes,” says Downer, who authored Know Your Meme’s entry on the track. That’s not really the case with Succession.
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When asked about other TV themes that double as memes, Downer mentions those for Seinfeld and Game of Thrones, but also acknowledges a key difference in both of those examples: Those shows are pop-cultural behemoths, and their ubiquity played a big part in making those theme songs so meme-friendly.
With its smashed-music-box sound, Succession’s title theme certainly clears that threshold there’s a reason we here at Vaulter - excuse me, Vulture - recently welcomed the opening tune into the “Don’t You Dare Fast-Forward Through It canon.” “Any song that becomes used in remixes and memes has to be good and fun to listen to,” says Adam Downer, an associate editor at the meme-explainer hub Know Your Meme. Generally speaking, there’s a very obvious common denominator among all music-driven memes. The Succession theme is such a hit online that it raises the question: Why? Why has this 90-second instrumental developed such a dedicated following, and what makes it so meme-able?
(We’ll happily settle for Pusha T, who cooked up a proper remix in collaboration with Britell.) This writer may or may not have made sure the song played at his wedding last month. Critics have dubbed it the song of the summer, joked about doing it at karaoke, and demanded that 2007 Lil Wayne rap over it. It’s been retrofitted to the iconic, old-timey Cheers opening and used to create a new intro for Arrested Development. The track - which melds radiant, detuned piano plinks and a bottom-heavy hip-hop beat - has been set to clips of Kermit the Frog and Bill Hader dancing (separately, sorry), and footage of Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker doing his staircase strut. Nicholas Britell’s Emmy-winning theme for Succession has inspired several timelines’ worth of memes. When the succession theme song hits /YDKhIrCSFA- Nick Usen June 2, 2019 For all the no-context screenshots and “Fuck off” GIFs, though, it’s clear which Succession memes are the mightiest. Succession’s season-two glow-up has brought us no shortage of treasures: new haircuts for Shiv Roy and Cousin Greg(ory), an array of fine sweaters, regular encounters with Holly Hunter’s Rhea Jarrell, and, naturally, a ton of ecstatic fan tweets.
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