Does the fulfillment you get from your career come more from the writing of the songs themselves or the reactions to them? âWandaVision': Yes, That Was Kathryn Hahn Singing the Agatha Theme Song The fan-favorite character had her own extremely catchy meta moment in this weekâs episode Andrea Towers | ⦠... it’s totally, totally bonkers.”. LOPEZ We have a theme — the “WandaVision” motif — that’s in every single song. ‘WandaVision’ may be over, but it’s not the last we’ll see of Wanda Maximoff, Monica Rambeau and other key characters from the Disney+ series. “Raya and the Last Dragon’s” Kelly Marie Tran and Awkwafina discuss Disney’s first Southeast Asian princess, an “imperfect” dragon and diversity vs representation. But that’s been a product of our yearslong collaboration. Meet the Songwriters Behind the ‘Wandavision’ Hit ‘Agatha All Along’, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez wrote the songs for the Disney+ Marvel series “WandaVision,” including the witchy earworm “Agatha All Along.”, John Francis Peters for The New York Times, The couple incorporated a tritone known as the devil’s interval in the songs in the series, including in “Agatha All Along.”, Kathryn Hahn’s character, the nosy neighbor Agnes, was revealed to have been the powerful witch Agatha Harkness — hence the song title “Agatha All Along.”, created by the hip-hop artist Leland Philpot, a video of the musicology behind the song. She was previously a Times intern after graduating from UCLA and has also worked at Variety, the Hollywood Reporter and CNN. The track, which was recorded for the seventh episode of the Marvel and Disney+ series, is ⦠DUH! ANDERSON-LOPEZ Musical theater songwriting is like being an architect of a building, but with a theme song, it’s more like you’re designing the lobby. ANDERSON-LOPEZ And there’s a video of the musicology behind the song that is completely accurate. WandaVision star Kathryn Hahn has confessed she âdoesnât understandâ the success of the showâs original song âAgatha All Alongâ. What’s on TV This Week: Oprah with Meghan and Harry, the NBA All-Star Game and more, TV highlights for March 7-13 include Oprah’s sit-down with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle plus the NBA All-Star Game, How to watch — and what to know about — Harry and Meghan’s ‘shocking’ Oprah interview. Under a new policy, state officials plan to reserve 40% of vaccines to underserved communities. Even the Avengers love WandaVision's "Agatha All Along" Comments (0) Few people outside of the skateboarding world knew of Jeff Grosso before his death a year ago of a drug overdose. The mock 'Munsters' theme song 'Agatha All Along' accompanied the big plot reveal in last week's 'WandaVision' episode and has become a sensation of its own. David Crosby was grieving his girlfriend’s death when he and friends made ‘If I Could Only Remember My Name.’ Panned in 1971, it’s now a classic. Refusing to do so made it great. KRISTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZ But, in a way, “Agatha All Along” was there all along. So let’s embrace it. California is dramatically changing who gets the COVID-19 vaccine. LOPEZ It depends on the reaction. The upbeat tune, which was released Feb. 23 as part of the “WandaVision: Episode 7" soundtrack, also soared to No. Movies on TV this week: ‘Lust for Life’; ‘Platoon’ and more, Movies on TV this week: March 7: “Lust for Life” on TCM; “Platoon” on AMC and more, ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’s’ Kelly Marie Tran and Awkwafina on the ‘double feeling’ of making history. WandaVisionâs biggest surprise might be its unusual villain, a breath of fresh air for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Los Angeles has launched a program with over a dozen preapproved designs from top architects for backyard dwellings, cutting the bureaucracy for needed housing. Who does what when you’re writing a song? But I’m starting to feel the trickles on Twitter. DUH!, everyone had been hearing it steadily, so it felt like an old friend. The mock ‘Munsters’ theme song ‘Agatha All Along’ accompanied the big plot reveal in last week’s ‘WandaVision’ episode and has become a sensation of its own. “Who’s been messing up everything? The season finale of “WandaVision” premieres Friday on Disney+. As it finally revealed the villain as Agatha Harkness, the theme song has created a magicmagic. LOPEZ We have a theme â the âWandaVisionâ motif â thatâs in every single song. It’s so perfect!”. It’s what was in our heads, and now it’s in their heads, and that’s something we now all share. ANDERSON-LOPEZ Right! “None of us knew this was going to be the song,” said Robert Lopez, 46, the composer who created the songs for the series with his wife of 17 years, the Oscar and Grammy-winning lyricist Kristen Anderson-Lopez, 48. “We woke up that morning to find that it was all over the internet, and it was like, ‘This is awesome.’”, It isn’t the first time the songwriting power couple has created an infectious ear worm, having written tunes like the Oscar- and Grammy-winning song “Let It Go” for the Disney animated movie “Frozen” and the Oscar-winning ballad “Remember Me” for the Pixar animated film “Coco.” They’ve won a pile of Oscars, Emmys, Tonys and Grammys between them. Share. ANDERSON-LOPEZ There’s a trap version with a gentleman at his console, and he’s like, “I’m so tired, so tired,” and then he presses play and the most glorious thing comes out. (The trap remix created by the hip-hop artist Leland Philpot is “the most glorious thing,” Anderson-Lopez said.). So we prepared an episode-by-episode guide to the Disney+ series for you to keep handy as you watch. We didn’t like the process as much at first — I was very tightly wound. ANDERSON-LOPEZ It’s still early — they’ve had less than a week. This was just the most fun project that either of us have ever worked on. Christi Carras is an entertainment reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Everyone’s favorite theme song from the popular Disney+ series “WandaVision” has landed on both Billboard and iTunes charts upon its release. The Disney songwriting power couple behind “Frozen” and “Coco” wrote the very spoiler-y “WandaVision” theme that has permanently lodged itself in people’s brains. What we know. "WandaVision" songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez talk writing "Agatha All Along" and the music to the Disney Plus hit. So then we thought: It’s a show about witches, right? The whole thing is so bonkers right now. Agatha ⦠LOPEZ We started with a different idea for a version of the song more along the lines of “That Girl.”. revealed to be the notorious Agatha Harkness, a powerful witch in the Marvel universe. “It’s super-duper cool and feels like something you’d find in a haunted house.”, Sung by Hahn and a chorus of male backup singers (including Lopez), it delivers the dramatic revelation that Agnes is the powerful witch Agatha Harkness — and that it is she, not Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen), who is behind all the oddities happening in sleepy little Westview. You can work several days on it. How much of a bop is the song âAgatha All Alongâ? Here's how actress Kathryn Hahn reacted. WandaVision has a new intro each week that features lyrics and Easter Eggs just waiting to be found, ... WandaVision: Opening Theme Song Lyrics For Every Episode. [Laughs.] WandaVision's latest banger, It Was Agatha All Along, has inspired lyrics breakdowns, remixes, and so much more. ROBERT LOPEZ No, not at all. I was like, ‘Yes!’ I was so excited. Written by the series' theme song composers Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez for the seventh episode "Breaking the Fourth Wall", the song was performed by star Kathryn Hahn, with Lopez, Eric Bradley, Greg Whipple, Jasper Randall, and Gerald White serving as backup singers. "Agatha All Along" is an original song from the Marvel Studios Disney+ miniseries WandaVision. No wonder it’s the watercooler show of the moment. So that was how we began with “Agatha.”. ‘No longer will [trans women] be seen as disposable,’ said ‘Pose’ star Mj Rodriguez after showrunner Steven Canals announced Season 3 would be the show’s last. “Frozen fractals …” [from “Let It Go”]. 'Agatha All Along,' that catchy, chart-topping theme revealing Agatha 'Agnes' Harkness's role in WandaVision, has been hiding in plain sight -- or, rather, plain ear-shot -- all along. I’m getting messages saying, “Thank you so much for ‘Agatha All Along,’ now please remove it from my head!” and “It’s been five days, now take it back, please!”. No gatherings? It’s so great! Do the songs you write get stuck in your head, too? And if they already know it, they appreciate being able to brag that they know it. But having a song that gets in people’s heads is such an honor for us. They’re very patient. ANDERSON-LOPEZ And now we write songs on vacation! Californians aren’t leaving the state en masse — but they are leaving San Francisco, study says. 1 on the iTunes soundtrack chart and has racked up more than 1.7 million streams on Spotify. WandaVisionâs Agatha All Along song has the Avengers dancing in hilarious supercut. ... Itâs been Agatha ⦠/ It’s been Agatha all along / She’s insidious / So perfidious / .... It’s too late to fix anything / Now that everything has gone wrong.”, ‘Wandavision’s’ ‘Agatha All Along’ theme song is the new ‘Werewolf Bar Mitzvah’. I was just so glad that now they’re suspiciously a little bit nicer to me, so I know that it’s been landing a little cooler than I thought [on the show].”, ‘WandaVision,’ explained: An episode-by-episode guide. ... What’s happening? ), “You open the door to this conference room, and they had — all over the walls — basically the entire story, the entire series ... laid out,” Hahn said. WandaVisionâs Catchy New Agatha Song Is a Vintage Bop. If you’ve gone down the rabbit hole to decipher “WandaVision,” you’re not alone: Fans are fighting isolation and finding community by doing it together online. WandaVision's penultimate episode was released this week, which means we're mere days away from the show's final episode. The tune, which plays at ⦠Hahn also recalled the day she was offered the top-secret Disney+ project as somewhat of a Marvel amateur. This story contains spoilers for the seventh episode of “WandaVision.”, If you are a fan of the Disney+ Marvel series “WandaVision,” there are five words that have been stuck in your head for the past week: “It was Agatha all along.”. We’ve been spoon-feeding a tritone that’s called the devil’s interval — the [soft voice] duh-duh-duh — throughout the series. That EVIL AGATHA got her very own song in WANDAVISION Episode 7!! WandaVision's 7th episode has proved to be a huge winner. LOPEZ Of course! We love writing. "It Was Agatha All Along," the catchy-as-hell theme song for WandaVision character Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) is now available online, and it's a Munsters-inspired bop. WandaVision song âAgatha All Alongâ is now available to stream on Spotify.. Sometimes we’ll write it together in the same room, sometimes one of us will write the whole thing and the other one will take credit. Agatha Harkness, in “WandaVision.”, revealed to be the notorious Agatha Harkness, Who was Jeff Grosso? Marvel might have just dropped the greatest character introduction song of all time. What’s the best “Agatha All Along” remix you’ve come across? But my goodness. WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for WandaVision Episode 7, "Breaking the Fourth Wall," now streaming on Disney+. ANDERSON-LOPEZ … replace it with another thing that’s been stuck in your head before. “The Addams Family,” “The Munsters,” the “Monster Mash” — all these Halloween-y kind of songs that have this grinding, growling bari sax. ), When the song debuted on Spotify and iTunes on Tuesday, it leaped to the No. That’s the mission of the Backyard Homes Project. Commentary: ‘WandaVision’ could have played only to Marvel fans. Making sure that the songs support the important moments, get the character from Point A to Point B … that’s a whole torture room. In this story, we rank every WandaVision theme song by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, including Agatha All Along and more. We know that he knows how to hear wet paint. In Marvel’s “WandaVision,” nothing is as it seems. But it is a minute-long riff on “The Munsters” theme that has burned itself into the brains of the collective internet over the past week. And so I replaced it with: “Don’t worry, / Ooh, ooh ooh ooh oo-ooh ooh oo-ooh, / be happy.”, LOPEZ That’s how you get it out of your system …. “Who’s been pulling every evil string? Agatha All Along', the absolute TUNE from WandaVision, is now available to stream on Spotify, so you can listen to Kathryn Hahn all day. I was so thrilled.”. WandaVisionâs âAgatha All Alongâ Song Out on Spotify, Apple Music, Others Kathryn Hahn, who plays Agatha Harkness, sung it herself. WandaVision's 'Agatha All Along' Video Released To Listen To Endlessly. The WandaVision clip featuring the song posted by Marvel Studios has been viewed nearly ⦠Everyone's favorite 'WandaVision' theme song, 'Agatha All Along,' has charted on Billboard and iTunes. In this case, Kristen wrote the full lyrics and gave them to me on a sheet of paper, and then I went to town with music. Published 2 days ago: February 23, 2021 at 5:50 am-Filed to: agatha. “It’s got an ‘Addams Family’ twist with an electric harpsichord,” Anderson-Lopez said. You wake up in the middle of the night with it pounding in your ears. Episode 7 of WandaVision hit Disney Plus with bombshell after bombshell, from new magical powers to a theme song that's so good Marvel has released it on Spotify. Get out, get a towel, scribble them on a piece of paper with drips, blurring ink — and Bobby would compose them by 10 a.m., and we’d record them after lunch, and then get notes at like 5 p.m. “Perfidious” is quite the lyric! On Wednesday, Billboard reported the villainous jingle — written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez for Kathryn Hahn’s character — has debuted at No. David Crosby on dinner with Joni, Phoebe Bridgers and the 50th anniversary of his haunted solo debut. Oprah Winfrey’s highly anticipated interview with Prince Harry and Meghan airs Sunday. (Lopez, who co-conceived and co-wrote the hit musicals “Avenue Q” and “The Book of Mormon,” is in rarefied air as the only double EGOT — someone who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, twice over.). “They literally were like, ‘Oh, my God, Mom!’ Like, I was practicing my witch moves, and they were so embarrassed. (Having killed a dog, she reveals, was among her dastardly deeds. While preparing for her latest turn as a wicked sorceress, Hahn told Meyers Tuesday that she humiliated her 11- and 14-year-old children by perfecting her witchcraft at home. WandaVision debuted the "Agatha All Along" theme song in episode 7 ⦠“It’s amazing. From The Munsters to Fall Out Boy, we explain why the Kathryn Hahn song ⦠The 62-second ear worm appears in Episode 7, “Breaking the Fourth Wall,” and its purpose is simple: It explains what Wanda and Vision’s nosy neighbor, Agnes (Kathryn Hahn), has been up to this entire time. / It’s been Agatha all along,” the Lopezes, Hahn and others sing on the track as a cheesy montage of Agatha’s nefarious tricks plays on screen. ANDERSON-LOPEZ There’s theme-song writing, and then there’s musical theater songwriting, which are very, very different. Kathryn Hahn as Agnes, a.k.a. How the WandaVision Theme and âAgatha All Alongâ Are Musically Related The composers confirm it. This explanation of a musical motif in the WandaVision theme songs shows how we got to Agatha All Along. LOPEZ The story of a full-length musical is the hardest thing in the world to get right. It was incredible. Where did that come from? (The actress previously starred in the Oscar-winning 2018 Marvel film “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” as the voice of mad scientist Doc Ock. Yet few led as influential a life. We were sort of sad that we were winding down and we didn’t know if we’d have any hits come out of this thing. 1 slot on the iTunes soundtrack charts. How Los Angeles is bringing high design to the granny flat — while saving time and money. Your neighbors were not fans of one of your last hits, the Oscar-winning anthem “Let It Go,” from “Frozen.” Has reaction been more favorable this time around? ANDERSON-LOPEZ But it just wasn’t right; it just wasn’t churning my blood the way that I wanted it to. How the ‘WandaVision’ finale sets up Wanda and Monica’s futures. Germain Lussier. The Disney+ series, which concludes Friday, mixed sitcom aesthetics, superhero stories and profound emotion. What’s on TV Saturday plus Sunday talk shows: Andra Day talks to Oprah, What’s on TV tonight, Saturday, March 6, plus Sunday talk shows: Oprah interviews Andra Day on “OWN Spotlight”; NBA Basketball and more, ‘Pose’ to end with upcoming third season on FX: ‘The ride was so worth it’. “And they had to walk me through it a couple times because I was a little bit of a newbie to this world. We were hitting bull’s-eyes all the time — it never happens that way! For something like “Frozen 2” or a Broadway show, the songs have to carry so much story. ANDERSON-LOPEZ I woke up at 3 a.m. this morning with “She’s insidious / So perfidious” just going on a loop in my head. "Agatha All Along," the song which revealed neighbor Agnes as Agatha Harkness in WandaVision, received a strong reaction from Marvel Cinematic Universe fans.Now, one viewer discovered a recurring motif between the show's villain song and its opening ⦠But for the theme songs, we just had to set tone for each episode. Also Read: 'WandaVision': Yes, That Was Kathryn Hahn Singing the Agatha Theme Song. ANDERSON-LOPEZ I would wake up in the morning, and sometimes I’d be so excited to write the songs that I would write them in the shower. ‘WandaVision’ fans geek out with virtual watch parties. ANDERSON-LOPEZ We like it when it’s done by five and we can go feed our kids and have a cocktail. In a phone interview from Connecticut on Wednesday, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez shared how the track came together, their trick for getting their own songs out of their own heads, and why Hahn’s character is “perfidious” rather than “hideous.” These are edited excerpts from the conversation. No problem. He’s often the first person who hears anything we write. LOPEZ We always have an SAT word in the lyrics somewhere because people appreciate learning a word. Hahn also credited Grammy- and Oscar-winning songwriting duo Lopez and Anderson-Lopez for the “crazy, awesome, delicious, 47-second” song, featured at the end of the series’ seventh episode — in which Wanda’s (Elizabeth Olsen) nosy-but-harmless neighbor character is actually (spoiler alert!) LOPEZ It changes with every song. Did you have any idea “Agatha All Along” was going to blow up like this? LOPEZ For the most part, with “WandaVision,” they’d just have a few notes for every song. LOPEZ My personal favorite was by a very gifted rock musician who created a version that was him playing all the instruments and singing all the parts, and he finished it by like two hours after the episode had aired, without any sheet music being available. You’re making songwriting sound super easy, but obviously it’s not. A primer on the skateboarding legend, Tony Hawk shares his memories of fellow skateboarding legend Jeff Grosso, Well-designed rentals L.A. can afford. The Disney+ series has been a ⦠By Akhil Arora | Updated: 24 February 2021 14:27 IST Agatha Harkness (and actor Kathryn Hahn) is ⦠ANDERSON-LOPEZ When you feel safe with your collaborators, you can say, “It feels done, and I feel like it’s safe enough to send and get some feedback on.” We’ve been so lucky to work for Tom MacDougall, who is now the president of Disney Music. What other shows are about witches and Goth figures? Jeff Grosso: The life and death of skateboarding’s soul. The 62-second earworm from the Disney+ and Marvel series WandaVision, "Agatha All Along," is now a Billboard chart hit.. “My children came in and saw me practicing, and it was as if they had seen me just get out of the shower,” she said. But ... when I got to hear I was playing a powerful witch? By Kelly Woo 25 February 2021. It has also taken on a life of its own, having spawned numerous trap, rock and rap remixes in the days since the episode debuted on Feb 19. 36 on its digital song sales survey with 3,000 downloads sold as of Feb. 25. Where did you look for inspiration for the song? Winfrey promises it’s a ‘shocking’ tell-all with the couple. So I looked at a rhyming dictionary and was like: “Perfidious! A new report from the nonpartisan California Policy Lab also found that fewer people are moving to the Golden State. LOPEZ We also have an electric harpsichord, which is what they use in “The Addams Family.” That’s the thing going dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit — the repeated chorus. And then ultimately, when the big reveal happens with the [thundering voice] DUH! “I don’t understand it,” a stunned Hahn told “Late Night” host Seth Meyers this week of her first chart-topping hit. ANDERSON-LOPEZ We knew we didn’t want to say hideous, because Agatha is still hot. Though they seem to enjoy watching their mom bring the Marvel magician to life every Friday night on Disney+. It means what we created somehow magically connected across space and time and landed in another person’s neurons.