What's up with the intro music?? I let this instrumental slide for the 1st 2 episodes but I know it wasn't like that the entire 1st season!
Where is the son and the heir??
The rights to use the song had obviously run out and they weren't prepared to pay to use it at all.
It certainly takes away alot of the shows charm.
They think we're the demons now - Prue Halliwell ~ All Hell Breaks Loose ~ Charmed
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It's because they didn't renew their licence to use the song before they released S8 on dvd and had to replace it with that horrible melody, and I guess the same went for Netflix. And almost all the background songs for the show are replaced too with horrible songs no one's heard, and it's distracting as a fan and you know the songs for the episodes. But the opening credits are by far the worst. The song was perfect for the show, and I highly enjoyed everytime the credits came
shareEw...you're right...the music does sick now. I hope this doesn't affect The Cranberries' episode. I became obsessed with that song bc of Charmed
shareSince I don't do Netflix, you'll have to let me know if they allow the music at P3 or not. I also fell in love with that song because of Charmed. That scene at the end, when the three of them are dancing - all with mortal guys, none magical - looking so young, so happy, is one of my all-time favorite scenes. Not sure how often I've rewatched it - if I'm feeling bad, it can always cheer me up, the way the scene from 'All Halliwell's Eve' of Phoebe flying across the moon does.
I'm one of the few fans who was happy when they did a different theme song on the S8 of the DVDs and that I've seen on Youtube (I'd never buy that season's DVD the way I have S1-3) which I assume is the same one they use on Netflix.
A theme song for a show about girl power that starts off "I am the son. I am the heir" never made any sense to me until Wyatt showed up.
That's the main reason I refused to watch charmed on Netflix, I stick to the dvds and my digital copies. Unless I happen to catch it on TNT. At least the only thing they do is speed through the credit and end credits.
shareSince I don't do Netflix, you'll have to let me know if they allow the music at P3 or not. I also fell in love with that song because of Charmed.
Thanks for the info - that's very good to know.
I wondered because I had read somewhere that it was trying to get all of those acts to allow them to appear that held up the release of the DVDs and not Shannen not allowing them to use her image - that was only for TV, not the DVDs or comics.
I still have the TV rips of season 8 where the Love Spit Love theme is still used :)
shareI still have the TV rips of season 8 where the Love Spit Love theme is still used :)
If they are actually performing the song is okay but they def changed all the other songs in the background.
This sucks....I've never heard of this happening before...or I guess I've never been so invested in a TV show to know the difference.
Charmed isn't the only show Netflix did that to. There's also Dawson's Creek. The Paula Cole intro “I Don’t Want to Wait” was changed. House MDs Massive Attack theme, The Wonder Years to name a few. There are so many more. Great Theme songs are what makes good shows even better as people get attached to them. It's a shame Netflix couldn't strike deals with all these mainstream artists. There is a very large thread on another board that's been ranting on all the shows Netflix butchered this way and whether it was Netflix being cheap or whether the artist were asking for too much.
This is primarily why some new shows stay away from mainstream popular music and stick to hiring one or two good music writers and having them write music that studio singers can record and becomes solely owned by the show owners. Some are often done very well these days. Saving Hope is one show I recall that does this.
Weird that a theme song is so important, but it is!! I really don't like long opening credits, except the Charmed one. Love the song, love seing the different looks on the sisters each season, and I love the awesome editing and inserting of quick images, letters and magic stuff. Especially the very beginning is always placed so perfectly in each episode, just after we learn what the episode's story is gonna be
shareyes. Those intro songs after the credit theme are always so apt. I'm just recalling the 70s episode "Never Can Say goodbye" by Gloria Gaynor. And I'm currently watching "house Call" where they played "Come Into My World" by Kylie Minogue where they were dealing with the Ghosts haunting and coming into the Manor after Cole's vanquish the episode before.
shareI don't think it's Netflix's fault. They would probably use the original music of the rights to the music were still valid. The majority of those shows you mentioned began long before streaming was even a thing. The people behind the shows didn't think about things line DVD sales or streaming when licensing music in original contracts.
Also, the theme music for Charmed is actually just the instrumental version of the real song. I had gone looking for why it was different myself and found someone had posted something about it being just the instrumental version of How Soon is Now. If you play the opening credits of the show on Netflix and play the actual song at the same time, you'll see it's the same. Of course, the show doesn't play the whole song in the intro anyway, but it's definitely the same song. It's just instrumental, but not nearly as cool as the full version.
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Its either a version of Charmed with inexpensive music or no Charmed at all. Just be happy it's available to stream. There's nothing stopping you from playing the DVDs.
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