WandaVision songwriters explain how they came up with “Agatha All Along”

If you haven’t seen the latest episode of WandaVision, then you’re seriously missing out. The latest episode introduced Marvel fans to the hit song of the year, although you shouldn’t listen to it if you don’t want to be exposed to SPOILERS.

In “Breaking the Fourth Wall,” we learn that nosy neighbor Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) is actually Agatha Harkness, and that she’s been pulling the strings the whole time, although we don’t yet know why. In the comics, Agatha Harkness is a powerful sorceress who helps Wanda Maximoff hone her magical abilities. (Fun fact: this is actually Kathryn Hahn’s second time playing a role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She also voiced Olivia Octavius/Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.)

A lot of fans online guessed that Agnes was up to no good, but the revelation that she’s Agatha Harkness still provided some great payoff, especially when it was delivered in the form of an incredibly catchy song called “Agatha All Along”:

If you pay close attention to the episode’s end credits, you’ll see that Kathryn Hahn actually provided the vocals for the song herself! Here’s hoping that we’ll get to see a live performance of “Agatha All Along” one of these days.

Where did “Agatha All Along” come from, and can you stream it?

As reported by SyFy Wire, “Agatha All Along” and the rest of the show’s songs were written by Oscar-winning duo Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, who are known for their work on Frozen and Coco. (The score is composed by Christophe Beck.)

Each episode plays homage to sitcoms from different eras, moving forward through time starting with the 1950s. The music in each episode, especially the ever-evolving opening theme, changes to denote this shift and ground viewers in the presented time period. “[Agatha] gets her own theme song that is in, sort of, The Munsters, Addams Family, kind of… witchy, ghoulish feeling,” explained Anderson-Lopez. “It also has a little bit of an Oompa-Loompa tenor feel to it too. We decided since we could hit any decade with that, we had to kind of take a couple swings at what would Agatha’s music be?”

The musical duo had a similar attitude when composing the title sequences for each episode. “Episode 5 was us channeling every 1980s rock singer and pop singer we could,” Anderson-Lopez said. “So there’s a little bit of Jennifer Warnes in there, a little bit of Michael McDonald, and Kris Kristofferson, and Huey Lewis, and even Taylor Dayne.” Explained Lopez:

"Part of what was so great [about ’80s shows like] Punky Brewster and Growing Pains, those songs were so touchy-feely and ballad-like, and they were so long that we were able to afford ourselves a little more time and to really try and land the emotion of it because it agreed with the style that we were going for."

If you’d like to listen to “Agatha All Along” again, you can now stream in on Spotify and Apple Music, according to Entertainment Weekly.

The next episode of WandaVision will be available this Friday, February 26, on Disney+.

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