Like pretty much everything else in life, movie scores are subject to trends, and Marvel’s movies have been following a very particular trend of making their music cues less noticeable. So, while you can easily hum a few bars from most—if not all—of your other favorite movie franchises, Marvel’s cinematic universe will likely have you drawing a blank, as illustrated in this video.
It’s not as if Marvel movies don’t have scores, but as the team at Every Frame a Painting points out, a number of factors come together to ultimately make that music very forgettable. Whether or not that’s a good thing is up to personal taste—I’m in the “less noticeable is better” camp myself—but it is a bit disappointing that there’s no character or franchise theme music to latch onto/belt out some non-lexical vocables to.
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