{"id":3482,"date":"2014-11-03T23:56:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T04:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.districtdiva.com\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2014-11-03T23:56:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T04:56:18","slug":"showtimes-the-affair-theme-song-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/showtimes-the-affair-theme-song-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Showtime's 'The Affair' Theme Song Tells Your Whole Life in 1 Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much like in real life, Showtime’s The Affair\u00a0<\/em>(a\u00a0new thriller series) loses it’s appeal after the first enrapturing episode. The show centers around the eponymous affair between McNulty from\u00a0The Wire\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Alice from\u00a0Luther<\/em>,\u00a0in an intriguing yet impossible to maintain flash-forward flash-backward storytelling structure that makes even less sense when you factor in that it’s Pacey Whitter whom Alice is cheating on. (In what world?!) I guess if midlife crises made sense, they’d be called something else entirely.<\/p>\n

At any rate, by the second act of the second episode, I was ready to call it quits because I could not focus on the plot without thinking about the incredibly haunting opening credits Showtime introduced with the second episode. In fact, instead of watching the rest of the episode, I rewound the tape (so to speak) to watch the credits again. Then I had to look up the song and found out it was an original song written for The Affair\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Fiona Apple called, “Container,” and, from the lyrics to Apple’s a capella crooning over hallowed out sound engineering, the 1:08 song is definitely one of the most thought-provoking\u00a0TV show opening songs of all time:<\/p>\n

Here are the concise yet incredibly evocative lyrics:<\/p>\n

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death<\/em><\/p>\n

The echo I created outlasted my last breath<\/em><\/p>\n

My voice it made an avalanche and buried a man I never knew<\/em><\/p>\n

And when he died his widowed bride met your daddy and they made you<\/em><\/p>\n

I have only one thing to do and that’s \/ \u00a0be the wave that I am and then \/ sink back into the ocean<\/em><\/p>\n

I have only one thing to do and that’s \/ \u00a0be the wave that I am and then \/ sink back into the ocean<\/em><\/p>\n

These lyrics are supposed to hint at what’s going to happen in\u00a0The Affair<\/em>, which I’ll probably never watch again, so unless someone on Twitter or in the comments tells me, I’ll probably never know for sure. But what these lyrics absolutely do is explain the truth of all life.<\/p>\n

The things we do in life inevitably impact other people, even those whom we don’t know, couldn’t ever know. We all have an impact and therefore we all matter. And the effects of our life linger on well after our death. But still, after we die, life goes on, people we love move forward, the world keeps turning. We’re here for a finite period of time, and whether we’re a big wave or a small one, we’ll have our impact and then sink back into the ocean where we came from.\u00a0It’s not a new philosophy but it’s beautifully presented.<\/p>\n

It’s depressing to think about life moving on without us, but comforting to understand that we each really do have a purpose and each of our short lives has mattered, does matter, will matter– and will continue to impact people, whether for good or evil. It’s the only thing we’re guaranteed in this world, to be the wave that we are.\u00a0Let’s not waste it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much like in real life, Showtime’s The Affair\u00a0(a\u00a0new thriller series) loses it’s appeal after the first enrapturing episode. The show centers around the eponymous affair between McNulty from\u00a0The Wire\u00a0and\u00a0Alice from\u00a0Luther,\u00a0in an intriguing yet impossible to maintain flash-forward flash-backward storytelling structure that makes even less sense when you factor in that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[212,275,342,507,601,692,787,803,850],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-the-movies-with-a-diva","tag-container","tag-dominic-west","tag-fiona-apple","tag-joshua-jackson","tag-maura-tierney","tag-pacey-whitter","tag-review","tag-ruth-wilson","tag-showtime-the-affair-theme-song-meaning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/SHOWTIME-THE-AFFAIR.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7nB6F-Ua","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}