What's this musical reference?

October 18, 2024 8:44 PM

Hmm, I can't place this reference / cover. It's in "Bad Guy, but in the Major Key", and about 1:03 in, there's something I can't place, but feels maddeningly familiar.

Shazam and SoundHound didn't come up with anything.

posted by Pronoiac to Media & Arts (7 answers total)

Is it the clicking? That references the clicking in the original, which is a sample of Sydney traffic light pedestrian crossing sound signals. If it's the happy Irish fiddle bit, I can't help.
posted by Thella at 9:37 PM on October 18

Response by poster: Unfortunately, yes, the happy Irish fiddle bit.
posted by Pronoiac at 9:47 PM on October 18

Something from The Sims games?
posted by Wretch729 at 9:52 PM on October 18

The video is a major-key transposed cover of "Bad Guy" by Billie Eilish. Are you already aware of this, and are you therefore asking where else the musical hook you noted at 1:03 might have been used, e.g. in the trailer for the movie "Bombshell" a while back? (That doo-DOO-do-DO-Do-do-doo hook is indeed quite the earworm.)
posted by zaixfeep at 9:59 PM on October 18

Somewhat a stretch, but it's a bit like a simplified version of a phrase in Northern Frisk.
posted by lucidium at 1:54 AM on October 19

Could be “Time to Pretend” by MGMT
posted by tepidmonkey at 5:37 AM on October 19

Response by poster: I wandered off to listen to The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs, to no avail.

Yes, I'm aware of the Billie Eilish song "Bad Guy"; the Bombshell trailer used it.

"Tuesday Morning" by The Pogues was it.
posted by Pronoiac at 6:02 PM on October 19 [6 favorites]