BGM in Theme Parks that Doesn't Sound Right or is Weird

[talfonso]

I came across a video that describes it all: the MK's Main Street USA BGM playing at a spot on Legoland.

 

 

Hate to break it to you, Orlando Theme Park News, but this is just public domain music. Public domain music. Played by the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. (Yes, they also play at non-Disney venues and concerts, like silent film viewings elsewhere.) It's not like you'd hear "When You Wish Upon a Star" at the park entrance of a non-Disney theme or amusement park.

 

But I have a story to tell. On my first-ever day-trip at Great Adventure (I'm a native New Jerseyan who now knows well not to cal it "Six Flags!") I heard the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack playing in the Enchanted Forest section. To a 7-year-old's mind, that's weird, since Great Adventure is a WB theme park. My grandparents used to tell me that it was an old person who mixed the music loops up. Same there with the theme music of The Land Before Time, but that time I barely minded at all.

 

I have to admit that when I rode Journey to Atlantis at SWO in 2001, I barely remember the Beetlejuice theme playing in the coaster segment. My hunch is fictional auditory crossover, which is playing something out of context in another situation, usually music from a licensed media in another media under a different company. (Remember Kidsongs: A Day at Camp, when the kids sang "Whistle While You Work" from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Weird knowing that Kidsongs is a non-Disney home video and TV series.)

 

What fictional auditory crossovers have you experienced from the parks?

[gerstlaueringvar]

Anything from Justin Bieber, One Direction, Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke or any famous song like Gangnum Style after released for two months.

 

Once I heard they played Harlem Shake three times in a row at Chimelong Paradise after the first video released for 6 months. I didn't even feel like riding any coaster that day.

[bbomser]

One thing that I always found funny, but do understand is when the Harry Potter background music starts playing at Disney's Hollywood Studios. I get it because it's a movie, but I still chuckle everytime I'm there.