Game of Thrones theme song meets LEGO, floppy disks, belly dancing, and more
By Ani Bundel
As the summer begins to stretch out and we settle in for the wait for Game of Thrones Season 7, a malaise sets in for the hardcore fans. Call it “Seasonal Affected Disorder: Winter Withdrawal.”
When these sorts of terrible depressive episodes happen to me, I know I find comfort in music. That’s why the latest spate of versions of the Game of Thrones theme song, inspired by Season 6, are right on time. We’ve got several of them this morning to help you get over Wednesday, the hump of the week, starting with a gorgeous acoustic slide cover from the band A Thing From The South.
But perhaps you aren’t into the idea of a “western” Game of Thrones. (I simply can’t imagine why you wouldn’t be. If that’s not made for riding through the endless sand dunes of Dorne, I don’t know what is.) But to each their own. Here’s something far more modern. In fact, it’s actually played on the guts of electronics: floppy disks.
Are the visuals of electronic hard drives just not doing it for you? How about belly dancers?
The version of the theme song here is performed on a tabla, a traditional South Asian percussion instrument, and really brings out the middle eastern overtones of the melody.
If you need something more traditional, here’s a Ukrainian orchestra doing a smoother, softer “cantabile” style version. One thing to note is how global the reach of these covers is.
And finally, in the animation department, we have what the opening titles would look like….if they were redone in Lego.
Beyond the fact that this is one of the coolest ideas we’ve seen in a while, it also gives rise to the question of why there are not Game of Thrones-branded Lego sets. After all, Lord of the Rings Legos sold like hotcakes. There are Doctor Who sets, Harry Potter sets, and Star Wars sets. Without boxed Lego sets, there’s no Lego animation versions of Westeros, no Lego video games featuringJon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen as heroes, and no chance that Ned Stark might lose his little mini figure head in a hilarious cameo in the next sequel to The Lego Movie. Get on that, Danish people who run Lego! We need Nikolaj Coster-Waldau minifigs, and so do you!