Danny Elfman

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896 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard Aug 2025

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No, I know.

But I mean, with film music, like I said, I said there's other people who could do Danny Elfman better than me.

So, yeah, I was aware early on that I would do a score, Pee Wee, Beetlejuice, Batman, Nightmare, Edward Scissorhands, you know, all of these scores.

I started hearing bits of it.

Hearing that, nothing makes me happier in my life than hearing stories like you just told me about your kids.

When I wrote the songs for Nightmare, I spent two and a half years on this with Tim.

And when the music was coming, the movie was coming out, nobody understood it.

Disney didn't understand it.

They didn't even call it a musical.

And the idea was that kids hate this movie was the vibe at that moment.

It's too scary for kids.

I did a press junket, which means 200 interviews on two days.

Every single journalist said, it's too scary for kids, right?

And I was like, no.

So the movie came out and it went away very quickly.

And then it developed its own life.

And if anything I ever worked on of those 110 films, I could have prayed for a second life.

It was that one.

And then 10, 15 years later, to start hearing people's kids.

And I do it live now, and I see kids.

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