Star Wars Fan Finds Hilarious Detail While Revisiting The Franchise's Soundtrack

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By Ademilade Shodipe-Dosunmu

Published May 26, 2024

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Highlights

Apple Music hilariously attaches lyrics to the Star Wars theme, which consists entirely of "duh" onomatopoeia.
The iconic Star Wars soundtrack by John Williams continues to set the tone for the franchise's new projects.
Fans appreciate the brilliant subtitled "lyrics" on Apple Music's version of the Star Wars theme, missing from Spotify.

Star Wars is a massively successful multimedia franchise by every definition, and one fan online has stumbled across a hilarious treat for Star Wars enjoyers on a platform that not many would expect to hold any surprises.

Star Wars might have started off without links to any well-known IPs, despite George Lucas initially wanting to make a film featuring the Flash Gordon character similar to Taika Waititi more recently, but it has since grown even larger than the latter. While many parts of the film were groundbreaking and novel to fans, one part of the franchise that hooked moviegoers right from the start (literally) was the phenomenal soundtrack supplied by legendary industry figure John Williams.

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The soundtrack still plays an important part in the franchise to this day, with the music being the first choice for setting the tone for newer projects like Star Wars: Andor. However, nothing beats the iconic Star Wars theme that greets fans at the start of the theatrical releases, and one fan online discovered something delightful on a recent revisiting of the Star Wars theme. Reddit user Kingerdvm took to the site’s r/StarWars subreddit to inform other fans that the music streaming platform Apple Music had actually attached lyrics to its Star Wars theme upload with a screenshot of the lyrics to back it up. This is hilarious because the track has absolutely no lyrics, a fact that’s pretty much universally known. Instead, the lyrics seem to be entirely composed of groups of “duh” onomatopeia arranged to create a sort of humming approximation of the title track.

The post absolutely delivers on a laugh, with one comment confirming that the “lyrics” put forth by Apple Music do indeed seem to be accurate. This little bit of fun on the part of Apple Music is quite a great find for fans and is a feature that is noticeably missing from competitor Spotify’s version of the iconic soundtrack. While fans will probably be able to figure things out by ear, it’s worth asking who at Apple Music had such a brilliant idea for the subtitling. Considering just how much it’s done for the franchise and fan enjoyment, it’s crazy to think that Star Wars almost didn’t feature William’s iconic music and more so that fans have Steven Spielberg to thank for saving the day.

All in all, it’s great that fans can appreciate the work that went into producing that iconic soundtrack, a feat that Andor Music Composer Nicholas Britell Still considers challenging in the current era of Star Wars. Now, the community can sit back and wait for more hilarious effects of the franchise’s worldwide acclaim and appeal.

The Star Wars franchise is available to stream on Disney+.

Star Wars

Star Wars is a multimedia franchise originally created by George Lucas and Lucasfilm Ltd with the 1977 motion picture. The science fiction franchise follows the adventures of characters (both humanoid and alien) in outer space including those who can wield a mystical power known as the Force. Since the release of the original trilogy of movies, the franchise has expanded to include multiple films and branched out to other media like comics, video games, tv shows, theme park attractions, and more. The IP and Lucasfilm were sold to Disney in 2012.