Forgive me if this is already established as far as the new season of IWTV goes, but something that kinda dawned on me today.
Okay obviously I'm sure there's plenty of you who are fans of the music in the show. I'm talking about Lestat's music and his band specifically, but even during the promos for it when I heard the songs the first thing I thought was 'Wow, this is absolutely HORRENDOUS..', and it was just something I learned to enjoy with a sort of tongue in cheek vibe to it even if ultimately I thought the music was just completely god awful entirely.
I'm sure there's plenty of fans of that over the top glam rock hairband style he falls into for some strange reason, but I think on the whole it's a little insufferable and cheesy and just... cringe. The opening credits theme song is a good example.
Though it dawned on me earlier today why that is, and I think it was completely intetional.
Why do I think that? Well, specifically because of the plot point of how when Lestat decides to re-record the whole album after that dark night of the soul car crash etc when he sits down and writes that deep soulful silencing ballad then tries to let the rest of the band go because they just won't be able to go in the direction he wants to now under the reasoning 'It's not for your ears, it's for ours.'.
Well... I think that goes for the rest of his music as well- in so much as how it lands on our, the viewers' ears, and perhaps that's also why he's not attaining the mass appeal he thinks he deserves. He's writing music for vampires. Not humans.
It's not for our ears, and that's why if you and I find it intentionally grating, off-putting, cheesey, cringe, insufferable, obnoxious and all those other things that's precisely why.
It's not for human ears.
Anywho I could be completely off the mark here, already trodding over already established ground, or I stumbled onto some keen observation lolol, but the pieces all seem to fall into place for that lil theory to make total sense to me, and even if I'm wrong that's gonna be my own personal head-cannon from here on out ha ha. :)