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Stupid Music

posted 10 years ago by Adcro
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Choices of short music snippets throughout this TV show tend to play on little bits of dialogue and things that have been said about the property: there was a property in Blackpool, so every time you went back to it, there was a tiny snippet of the line of the George Formby song "My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock", every single time they went back to it.

John is a live-at-home dad, "...Daddy, Daddy Cool..."

Dale will need to fix the beams, "...I will try to fix you..."

Sheila's planning to have the garage knocked down, "...I get knocked down, but I get up again..."

She works as a nursery nurse, "...take good care of my baby..."

etc

Has anybody else noticed this? It's so corny!!

[–] bond322 10 years ago

Finally, somebody else that has noticed. It does my head in and really interferes with my enjoyment of the show.

[–] Clemencedane 10 years ago

I'm watching HUTH for the first time right now via streaming (I'm in the U.S.) and the musical snippets are total eye-rollers. It's almost as if the show were sponsored by a radio station that requires them to work a number of strange assorted songs into the programme. But I don't mind so far because I am intensely curious about the UK property market and how house flipping (what we call it) there differs from how it is here.

There has been a riot of these shows in America over the last 8 years, but this is the first British one I have seen.

[–] TravisTheSky 9 years ago

Yes, the music is very corny. I have come to embrace it and now I love it! Fun.

I watched an episode where part of the song, "Where the Streets Have No Name" by U2 was sung by a different band. I didn't see the relevance of the song title to the property being renovated. A couple of days later, a line from the song suddenly blared in my mind: "TEAR DOWN THE WALLS that hold you inside." Aha! The property did in fact feature walls being torn down, but that line of the song was NOT used during the broadcast. Clever.

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[–] Pedro_H 9 years ago

Some of the music is really obscure and you wonder who can match a 1980's pop song lyric to some form of DIY!?