I love the silliness of 1980s movies, their sweetness, the stirring anthems (the theme music for Back To The Future, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop and Indiana Jones would be among my Desert Island Discs), the familiar formulae.
The music in the background is an anthem-like theme -- think "City of Blinding Lights" By U2.
Plenty of older gay men, too, find the whole ethos of circuit parties — glow sticks, remixed diva anthems, color themes, "body fascism"—to be tired anachronisms.
Last night, in a tribute unprecedented in a city known for its football rivalries, the Everton anthem Johnny Todd - the theme from the vintage TV police drama Z Cars - was played for the first time at Anfield as Liverpool's players left the tunnel before their Champions League home tie against Toulouse.
Because the world desperately needs another Angels-themed anthem.
Music's Jennifer Nine referred to the song as "a liltingly sweet paean to post-break-up friendships", while Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic called it a "high school anthem-in-waiting" theme; it also was selected as one of the album's highlights.
They neither expected nor wanted 1992's wildly experimental Angel Dust, which included a Tom Waits homage, a homoerotic cheerleader anthem and the theme from Midnight Cowboy.
"Take My Breath Away," for all its corny use in a love-scene montage, not only managed to become a go-to prom theme anthem but also won an Academy Award for best original song.
Keywords: Anthem, Earnings Report.
The national anthem became a party theme song among the generally convivial, noodle-legged celebrants.
