From orchestral arrangements to amusement parks, the 'Super Mario Bros.' theme song has had the ultimate glow up since it was composed for the video game in 1985; and the composer, Koji Kondo, can hardly believe it
and grew up playing them,” says Brian Tyler, the film’s composer, who was one of the games’ multitudes of passionate fans. For the new movie, he heavily utilized the musical groundwork Kondo laid back in the early ’80s. “One of the coolest parts of scoring this film is that it translates the experience of playing the game. When I played the early games, I imagined being in a greater world than the 8-bit graphics. It seemed emotionally real to me. That is what this film brings to all of us fans.
“When I first played the game, the one thing that really made a big impression on me was the bright blue sky. Up until that time, video games had this very black background, so the bright colors were quite groundbreaking.” Officially dubbed “Ground Theme” or “Overworld Theme” what he subsequently birthed was a buoyant anthem in the form of a simple hummable earworm that mimics a calypso produced on a synth. Thanks to its seemingly Caribbean flavors, Kondo says that a lot of listeners assume there was a Latin or jazz influence in his creative vision.
I wanted to musically match the movements of Mario and find a rhythm of what was happening on screen. That became the basis of what we know now.
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