(ED Animator: Masayuki
Crappy GIF: Who do you think? )
Composition & Lyrics by Bart Howard
Arrangement: Toshiyuki Oomori
Vocal: (varies)
Fly me to the moon
And let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, darling kiss me
Fill my heart with song
And let me sing forevermore
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you
Although, as thewayneiac pointed out here:
This song also has an intro that most singers, including Sinatra, don't bother singing. (Perry Como included it in his version):
-intro-
Poets often use many words to say a simple thing.
It takes thought and rhyme to make a poem sing.
With words and with music I've been playing.
For you I have written this song.
To make sure you understand what I'm saying.
I'll translate as I go along...
(On a pointless side note, Hikaru Utada includes the verse in her version, as well. Not that I listen to her stuff... My ears are for Maaya Sakamoto and Akino Arai. )
Some additional background info:
- Short article about the song
- Article on Bart Howard
And, as we all know, FMTTM is NGE's ED ("ending", not "androgynous-looking 1337 hax0r chick who get along very well with a genetically-engineered Welsh Corgy"). It's particularly infamous for using so many dadgum renditions of the same song, which I have compiled here. It's sad how long that took me to do, it really is.
Changing less often than the version of FMTTM used is the color scheme. Image links! Yay! Here, I should just point out something I somehow didn't notice until I made the crappy animation above -- the moon is actually rising throughout the course of the credits (so making a perfectly fluid GIF is impossible)!
- The default, blue (moon in starting position)
- Blue again (moon in ending position)
- Blue (with telop)
- Red (for episodes #08 and #09, but, strangely, not #10)
- Black and white (for #19)
- Black and white again, with pinkish-purple telop
- Orange (from the Renewal DVD credits)
As to why Anno chose this song for NGE, I have no idea. This is probably illuminated upon somewhere, though...
And for whatever reason, I always liked the observation Stuffman offered back here as to why FMTTM "works":
Believe it or not, I've always been under the impression that "FMttM" is a surprisingly good fit into Eva's soundtrack, not only in terms of its evocations, but its musical style as well...this is only my opinion, of course, but I've always perceived Eva's soundtrack as rather "retrospective" in nature, and possessing several similarities to songs from the Sinatra/Big Band era. For instance, listen to "Misato," "Barefoot in the Park," or "Waking Up in the Morning," as well as others: those just ooze 40's-50's "lounge" sounds. Many other tracks, while not as obviously influenced by the era, still have a decidedly "symphonic" feel to them, while rather few "modern"-sounding tunes are found on the entire soundtrack. Again, others might disagree with my perceptions, but that's always been the way I've been inclined to hear Eva's music as a whole, and from that perspective I tend to think of "Fly Me" as a decent fit.
Phew, that's enough from me tonight... Anchors aweigh, commentator-people!
Originally posted on: 18-Aug-2004, 06:28 GMT