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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not nearly as big of a story but you should hear about BER - The Night Begins to Shine..

  • Written in 2005 as an assignment to "create an 80s-style song for a music library’s
  • In 2014, appeared in an episode of Teen Titans Go for fewer than 10s as a throwaway joke.
  • Hit #23 in Billboard charts
  • Inspired TTG to make followup miniseries with covers by bands like Fallout Boy and Ceelo Green

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  • ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And on that thread, Subways of your Mind by FEX. A group of West German friends who recorded music together but were never picked up had a recording of their song on the radio from the 80s become “The most mysterious song on the internet” which led to them getting back together and making new music in the 2020s. 

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who knew. Cool.

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fallout Boy (or, specifically, Patrick Stump) also does the theme song for “Spidey and His Amazing Friends” and “Hot Wheels: Let’s Race!”

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And almost nobody actually wanted to watch it.

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