Elementary, my pricey… Let’s select a theme music for “2026: The Movie”

Elementary, my pricey… Let’s select a theme music for “2026: The Movie”

Published 4:05 pm Sunday, January 4, 2026

When every new 12 months snaps into my reasonably diminished visible area, I attempt to discover a subject that may trigger readers to mirror a bit on the 12 months forward. What can we rely on or hope for or guard towards? Or, higher but, I would urge us all to stretch our minds a bit and have a look at just a few unattainable prospects.

As a lot as I dislike admitting it, 2026 seems too filled with damaging portents to recommend any sensible challenges. And definitely none which can be enjoyable! It’s simply going to be a type of “Que Sera Sera” years, I believed. And then: “That’s it! What we’d like is a theme music to get us by this bio-pic or no matter class you suppose our present state of affairs suits inside.

But simply what was the identify of that film, anyway? I bear in mind Doris Day singing the music. But the remainder of the film escapes me solely. Not memorable. Which, if you consider it, is what I hope for 2026 — a 12 months that received’t be memorable for lengthy. A 12 months for which, as soon as it’s over, solely the theme music stays.

‘Don’t Fence Me In’

Though I’m a flat-out sucker for cowboy and nation songs, “Don’t Fence Me In” appears nearly too apparent to recommend. However, even ignoring the plea for “wide open spaces” (since they actually have little to do with the fencing downside I take note of) the eager for the flexibility to maneuver freely is the underside line right here. So a lot of our residents and guests to our once-upon-a-time “land of the free” are by no means free any extra. Not free to remain right here (irrespective of their citizenship standing), not free to reside an open and productive life amongst us.

OK, then. How about that Woody Guthrie favourite, “This Land is Your Land.” Most of us grew up with that rollicking tune and would sing out the refrain loud and powerful each time a performer gave us the chance. And we purchased into it — “hook, line and sinker” as they are saying. Like what’s to not consider?

We grew up figuring out that there was a spot right here for everybody as in our Statue of Liberty’s “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” and “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” In reality, many people can level with pleasure to our ancestors who got here right here to “start over.”

‘Who’s Sorry Now?’

And, as unlikely because it might sound, there are all the time the “Love Songs” to fall again on. I can nonetheless hear Connie Francis and her poignant (but type of gloating) lyrics, “Who’s sorry now? Whose heart is achin’ for breakin’ each vow?” Perhaps a bit fanciful and wishful thinking-ish given my suggestion that it’s used because the theme music for “2026: The Movie,” however what’s the chance that the vow-breaking has modified now that the New Year is upon us? Highly fanciful, anyway.

Just in case, although, let’s not hedge our bets. I’m able to belt out “Gonna Get Along Without You Now,” or a minimum of these two traces of the refrain made memorable again in 1952 by Teresa Brewer: “I got along without you before I met you, Gonna get along without you now…” The thoughts boggles on the multitude of functions these few traces may need.

I’m certain readers can have more moderen and, maybe, extra applicable songs to recommend. And wouldn’t it’s enjoyable if somebody had moxie sufficient to truly cobble collectively a number of the bizzarro scenes which can be sure to floor throughout these subsequent 12 months? And then to discover a theme music that may serve to poke a little bit enjoyable, shed the sunshine of actuality on the outlandish instances we’re enduring, and unite us all in a music we may get pleasure from collectively — sorta like “We Shall Overcome” however extra within the right here and now!

Yes! My want for the 12 months: “2026: The Movie” (full with a theme music) coming to a neighborhood close to you quickly!