The Simpsons Fires Longtime Composer and ‘Secret Weapon’ Alf Clausen

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38 points·daschaefer··7 comments

> “We have 90 seconds more of commercials in the show today than we did 20 years ago,” Simpsons music editor Chris Ledesma previously told me. “Think about it: a two-minute song, which by song standards is very short, but a two-minute song in The Simpsons today would represent nearly 10 percent of the entire air time. You’re not going to get a two-minute song like you did back then.”

Then you better make that two minute song a damned good one, no?

I believe this is appropriate.

The Fall of The Simpsons: How it Happened [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk]

That's actually a pretty great video. I'll admit I don't hate the new simpsons but there is something different about them that I couldn't put into words, this video does a good job doing that.

Yeah the Simpsons seems to have jumped the shark a long time ago.

This will free Alf for more interesting assignments or maybe for a well deserved retirement

Possibly eating cats... >_>

Probably has a lot to do with the fact that you have 30 years of music queues you can draw from now. Instead of having a 35 piece orchestra score each episode, they can just re-use.

...because the music is the problem with Simpsons these days? smh

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