When it's cold I'd like to time travel
Okay I made a comment in another post and I've mentioned this before, but this is all about the Moby song, When It's Cold I'd Like to Die.
It's clearly an important song because they played it 3 times. 3 to be exact, in seasons 1, 4 and 5. Once for Will and twice for Max. But I'll get to that later.
First, other than a newer version of Heroes, which was an 80s song that Peter Gabriel revisited in the 2000s, When It's Cold is the ONLY song in the series that isn't from the 80s or earlier.
It was the final track on Moby's album Everything is Wrong.
The singer on the track, Mimi Goese, was in a dream-pop band called Hugo Largo in the 80s
"Where were you when I was lonesome? Locked away with freezing cold."
"I don't want to swim forever. When it's cold I'd like to die"
in 2006, the song was played in The Sopranos. The show the Duffers have been talking about recently. And it was played for a dreamlike scene with the main character Tony, who at that time was in a medically induced coma. It's an episode that splits into two different realities and deals with the subconscious. Which sounds familiar.
Of course it fits. In Stranger Things, we're dealing with depression, comas, and "He likes it cold." All things which fit the vibe and lyrics. Also the first two times it plays, someone actually appears to die on screen. First Will, who is revived by Joyce and Hopper. Than Max, who is revived by El. The third time is Max waking up in the improbable hospital scenario.
But again, this song is from 1995.
Yes, they actually have a lot of interesting anachronisms on ST that point to the timeline potentially being wrong. Cars and game rules and a newer version of Planck's Constant etc.
But the music was pretty steady. And this was the only song from the 1990s.
Music and radio signals are huge on this show. In 4, it was all about music being a lifeline back to reality.
So why choose this song not once but 3 times if it didn't mean anything? There are other haunting melodies that would make us cry while someone is potentially dying. There were other songs to play that would have made us more hopeful when Max finally woke up.
But no. We have "let's exchange the experience" from kate bush 20 million times in 5 and a song from the 1990s about depression and dying popping up again too. It feels like it was done with purpose.
We've talked about Heroes a lot around here. But I don't think we've talked about the Moby mistake enough. And what it might mean about the timeline.
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