In 2022, Netflix’s proposals included two of the strongest series candidates of recent years: the fourth season of “Stranger Things” by the Duffer brothers and “Wednesday” by Tim Burton, Miles Millar and Alfred Gough. Both productions raced in the rankings, breaking successive records of popularity. They have one more common denominator – a second life given to hits from the 80s.
Nastka and Wednesday fight for victory
Initially, it seemed that “Wednesday” would dethrone the latest season of Hawkins kids’ adventures. From its premiere on Wednesday, November 23, to the end of the week, viewers watched the Addams Family series for 341.2 million hours, which surpassed “Stranger Things 4” (335 million from May 30 to June 5). Ultimately, the production ended the year in second place on the list of the best English-language series. Viewership recorded for the first month totaled 1,196,150,000 hours. “Stranger Things” triumphed in the ranking (1,352,090,000 hours).
Ranking of English-language series Netflix Global Top 10
Records were also broken by the music used in the series. Kate Bush, whose single “Running Up That Hill” from the album “Hounds of Love” released in 1985, found out about the power of “Stranger Things” on contemporary pop culture, years later reached the top of the charts and higher places than before premieres. Music was the leitmotiv of the fourth season of production, in which the characters’ favorite songs become the key to saving them from the main villain, Vecna. “Running Up That Hill” played by Sadie Sink Max took a liking to it, and the scene with her possession became one of the most commented fragments of the season.
Kate Bush’s hit quickly became a favorite of not only fictional characters. Viewers liked it so much that after the first weekend of the premiere of the season, it was at the top of the Top 10 list of most popular songs on iTunes. Then it hit the Spotify TOP50, taking second place in the American ranking, and fourth in the global ranking. After 37 years from his debut, he returned to the Billboard ranking, beating the previous result by several dozen points in the ranking (then he took the 30th place, this year – 8th). Thus, it became the first song in Bush’s career to hit the top ten, and the artist herself broke another record, being the oldest singer with such a successive comeback.
The Netflix effect has touched another track from the 80s.
The power of Netflix’s influence also meant that the song that was included in the soundtrack of the biggest competitor “Stranger Things” received a second life. While “Running Up That Hill” was the 10th most popular song used by content creators on TikTok this year, and fans of Eddie Munson’s character rediscovered Metallica’s “Master of Puppets”, “Wednesday” spawned two more songs in a much faster fashion. pace.
We are talking about “Goo Goo Muck” by The Cramps, to which the main character danced, and “Bloody Mary” by Lady Gaga. Gaga herself joined the popular trend by recreating choreography from the show. #WednesdayAddams has been used over 19 billion times in less than a month. The hit popularized by The Cramps in 1981 (originally performed by The Gaylads in 1962) saw a 50-fold increase in streams within the first few days of the airing of the episode in which it was used. According to Billboard, the song received 2,500 on-demand airplays in the United States. By November 28, the score had increased by more than 5,000%, with the song played 134,000 times daily in the US alone. Currently, “Goo Goo Muck” has surpassed 10 million streams on Spotify.
Jenna Ortega, the lead actress, is responsible for the cultural phenomenon of the dance scene, eagerly reproduced by Internet users. She was inspired by dance feats at goth parties in the 1980s, the activities of artists of the time, Siouxsie Sioux and Lene Lovich, as well as Lisa Loring, who played Wednesday in the 1960s sitcom. In a recent interview with “NME”, the actress admitted that on While filming a dance scene, she tested positive for the coronavirus and appeared sick on set, sparking controversy. Despite Ortega’s pleas, the shots were not repeated. However, the disease did not prevent satisfactory results. The choreography has already been dubbed by audiences as “a dance from 21st century Pulp Fiction”.
Source: Gazeta
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