inspired by an episode of Dark

[firecat]

What if people walked around in real life with their theme music playing, the way it works in TV, movies, and (especially) operas?

Comments

[sabotabby]

That's why I wear headphones all the time. So that I can pretend that this is happening.

Actually, the other day I was teaching and I guess another teacher was showing a film, and there was this SWELLING EPIC MUSIC and I got confused, but the kids were hearing it to, and then I was like, "the thing I'm teaching you about actually isn't this DRAMATIC but let's just go with it."

[cjsmith]

Ooo, that would be nifty. If nothing else, the volume of everyone’s respective theme songs (and who gets theme songs at all) would be a huge indicator of who is important and who is just an extra.

[silveradept]

That entirely depends on whether I like my theme or not. And how loudly it interacts with other people's themes.

And now I wonder how dating works when you can both hear what it would be like if your themes merged.

[snippy]

I would never leave the house. I wear noise-cancelling headphones as it is.

[ckd]

Jody Lynn Nye wrote a story about Theme Music Man, whose power was to generate other peoples' theme music.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?72979

[ironed_orchid]

I pretty much have music in my head at all times, but no one else can hear, and it's about 50% earworms (which I guess could count as theme songs).