Danny Elfman - What’s This? (from “The Nightmare Before Christmas”)

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  You're listening to Song Exploder,

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  where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.

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  I'm Rishikesh Hirway.

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  Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas came out in 1993.

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  It's a stop-motion animated musical with music by legendary composer Danny Elfman.

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  He's won Emmys, a Grammy, and he's been nominated for four Oscars.

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  From 1979 to 1995, he was also the singer and songwriter in the band Oingo Boingo.

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  The Nightmare Before Christmas takes place in a world where different holidays all have their own realm.

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  And the story is about Jack Skellington, the leader of Halloweentown,

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  a place where it's always Halloween, and Halloween is all they know.

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  And Jack has grown a little tired of it.

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  But then Jack discovers a portal to Christmastown.

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  with snow and santa and all things christmas inhabiting it the song what's this takes place in that moment of discovery in this episode danny elfman tells the story of how it all came together and how writing and singing this song for jack skellington ended up profoundly connecting to his own life the sights the sounds My name's Danny Elfman.

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  Tim Burton just called me one day and he said, Disney...

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  came across this story idea i had years and years and years ago when i was working there and it never got made and it got stashed away and somebody found it and said oh hey look we've got this tim burton thing by the time tim called me about nightmare before christmas we'd already done five movies together we'd done the two batman movies we did peewee's big adventure beetlejuice and edward scissorhands so we already knew each other fairly well he would present me with these universes that he was creating and they all just seemed completely normal to me you know we kind of came from similar backgrounds i grew up on monsters and science fiction fantasy

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  as tim did in the same era so his world didn't ever seem that weird to me and i guess that's why it worked out so it's not like i'd ever go oh my god this is weird what am i gonna do this is like what i don't get it it was for me it was just like yeah i totally got it so tim came over the house and it was really as simple as this he sat down and he pulled out these wonderful drawings that he did And as soon

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  as I saw what Jack looked like,

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  I said, oh yeah, right.

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  This makes perfect sense to me.

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  Let's just do it.

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