Thread by @laurenancona

just had the weirdest experience

was watching an X-files episode & there’s this country song playing in the background of the bar they’re in

& it’s so good it jars me out of my idle multitasking to Shazam it

except

Shazam can’t find it

so I look up the lyrics

& all I find from the lyrics are people talking about THIS episode of the X-files from 1998

wut

then I go search for the episode (S6E5 Dreamland II) & apparently I’m not the only one that was like “dang that’s a good song” because it’s mentioned on the IMDB page that nobody can find this silly song

what is happening

for reference

[ video of a woman walking into a bar & sitting down, looking distressed, while the song referenced plays in the background ]

more!

given how on the nose some of the lyrics are, I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t thrown together as incidental music, but that hook is just so good idk idk

the changes first caught my ear because they smack of Queen circa Radio Ga Ga era

anybody know a Jeff Charbonneau

he went on to Do Some Stuff, somebody must know him

I love imagining that this was accidentally-too-good incidental music 😂

There are people on Reddit saying they’ve been trying to find the song since this episode first aired in 1998 🤯
(that’s roughly a decade pre-Shazam) 🤓

I keep wondering why it is that so many people have looked for *this* song over the years?

It’s not so much country as it is a pop tune in country clothes.

Realized that it’s so up in the mix, & so poignant, that it’s like another character in that scene.

I should also credit the vocal performance of the mystery singer, too: plaintive perfection on top of those warm harmonies + slide guitar is really 🤌

[ I couldn’t find a music supervisor in the credits, so if anyone knows who that is….I only had the end credits to reference at the time - that’s why I included the music editor, perhaps they’d know who the supervisor was ]

I hope the folks that did this work know so many people liked it so much ☺️

UPDATE

👉 @MichelleStClare was right!

welp

but somebody found the cue sheet!!!

[ I may have just purchased this episode so I can pull timestamps to match up w/ durations. It’s a little fuzzy because the music is present in the distant background for some time, but I’m assuming this stuff is covered by a CBA somewhere thus erring on the side of pedantry ]

It’s one of the two last entries, most likely the penultimate

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Gonna share their socials in the next tweet

THANK YOU for making this happen & to everyone that contributed

🥹 I just want them to know how much & how many people have enjoyed their work these 25 years 🫶🏻

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🥹 less than 24 hours to get here, I love yous so much

🫶🏻

is this real life? how amazing is this? Thank you Dan & Glenn!

🥹🥹🥹

[ while we wait to see about a recording, I think ‘we need a country song that could be about people or aliens…in 4 hours’ might be my favorite prompt ever ]

[ also while we wait, that’s Glenn Jordan’s lovely voice you hear on the recording, & he’s on Spotify ]

apparently Word Has Gotten Around 🥰

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I promise you I am not good enough at life to have planned this

IT’S HAPPENING 🥹

[ this thread has become a news item, including some of you that participated 🤓 I’m tracking news clips over here ]

📢
TO-MOR-ROW, TO-MOR-ROW […]
it’s only a day away 🎉

👽👽👽 IT’S HERE 🛸🛸🛸

Staring at the Stars, complete!