Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer just branched out into unchartered territory.
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We got it wrong. We should make a “non-boycott” list of people who aren’t assholes yet. It would be way shorter, and we would remove people when they become so fucking stupid and arse-licking that they have the idea of reworking the national anthems of shitholes such as saudi arabia.
Don’t sweat it. I love Hans Zimmer but after what he did to my car, I can’t wait to hear the bizarre shits that will be the new anthem.
Zimmer was hired by BMW to make acceleration and engine noises for their “i” line of EVs. What they got was the sound of robots whining and having orgasms. I had to disable the sound on mine.
I love Hans Zimmer but after what he did to my car
I thought this comment was about to go in a very different direction
Hopefully he’s a nicer to cars than Frank Zappa.
Edit: Sadly it appears that videos of Frank “playing a car” on The Monkees are harder to find than I suspected.
So, Costco and who else?
I would add Elton John and Tom Hanks, but if I look too deeply they may secretly be British Nazis working for the Queen to overthrow the American government…
Tony Hawk!
Ah, about the Queen…
Tom Morello is based as hell
Costco made their CEO a multi-billionaire, that means billions of dollars that could have stayed in the customers’ pockets or that could have been redistributed to all employees.
I’ve heard Dave Grohl is pretty ok?
https://medium.com/the-monthly/the-foo-fighters-aids-denialism-should-be-on-the-record-6e33666fdc3c
Not exactly. Also recently announced a child from cheating on his wife.
I knew it was too good to be true
🎵 …and the bone saw’s red glare
the screams filling the air
the sawing of limbs
and the blood everywhere
O say does that bonesaw in hand yet wave?… 🎵
He does have a very Hans-off approach to writing music.
Sad to see a great composer who really doesn’t need the money, take money from a brutal suppressive dynasty to make something that will make said dynasty look good
I thought the guy was honourable.
From what I can tell, it seems like he takes credit for most of the work of his protégés. See: the DaVinci Code Soundtrack, for which he only wrote the main theme, or the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack, for which… You guessed it, he only wrote the main theme.
And that Pirates theme is just a rehash of his theme for The Rock a few decades earlier
Yeah, if you’ve ever read Cloud Atlas, it makes me wonder if David Mitchell was friends with a former collaborator of Zimmer’s (or if the industry is so rife with such problems), because the way Zimmer appears to operate and aggrandize himself sure does have a whiff of Vyvyan Ayrs…
I watched gladiator for the first time a few weeks ago and there was a few times where the soundtrack sounded very pirates-y. I have no idea if it was actually Hanz Zimmer who did that one though
Zimmer scored Gladiator and was the score producer on Pirates three years later.
oh shit that totally makes sense thank you
Well, did he give feedback or other input for the other songs of the soundtracks? Like, was he the leader and the others worked for him, or did he have no say in what the others did?
So, compare this contemporary review, which makes it clear (including a quote from Zimmer himself!) that while Zimmer, Djawadi, and others contributed leitmotifs and notes, the majority of composition was Badelt’s. Now consider Zimmer’s website’s description, which invariably paints himself as the main composer of nearly every track, even claiming the title of primary composer, and seems to erase the contributions of Badelt at every opportunity.
So, I take any claims of Zimmer’s greatness with a giant salt lick. I originally read another source (which I now am unable to locate) that claimed the only thing Zimmer wrote for the DaVinci Code was the main theme motif, much like “He’s a Pirate” for the first pirates movie. I now generally assume that anything excellent “composed” by Zimmer was some other collaborator’s work, Zimmer offered a chord or two, then used his ill-gotten fame to bully the less-famous collaborators to accept the title of second fiddle while Zimmer mimes the Solo in the spotlight.
I’d absolutely love a collab between Zimmer and Tallerico.
I used to really like the guy…
I’ve always heard he’s kinda of a dick to work with
“I’m going for more of an 80s pop vibe.”
I wonder how he’s gonna include the part about slavery and misogyny
Fuck, not hans zimmer man 😭 Why did he sell out to us
But on the other hand, our anthem sucks ass. We need a better one so i guess it isn’t all bad?
I would be down for a national anthem that sounded like a movie trailer. Opens with BWAAAAHMMMMM. Then another. Then narrator in a grisled and wise voice starts in, “We’re not a good country. We’ve done horrible things.” BWAAAAAHMMMMMM!
He gonna thread in the Islamofascism, Human Slavery, and Misogyny?
Hard not to when rejecting a fantastic offer from MBS could end in an assassination. I’m interested in seeing how the West handles this loose cannon.
He evidently does need the money, huh…
“Uncharted”
Weird news!
I always fucking knew this guy was a fucking hack. Fuck Hans zimmer.
what
How much you think they’re paying him?
Oof. Well, for his sake I hope he gets it right 🪚
