Background: when I first heard there was going to wrestling on the SciFi network, I got very excited. As someone who thoroughly enjoys robot battles I imagined sci-fi wrestling would be the pinnacle of fan geek experience. Was I ever disappointed. This song conveys the promise that the reality failed to deliver.
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I've never worked with someone in making music before, so I hope I don't do anything wrong. I'm writing this up as a web site because with all of the music samples and such it's too big for an email.
I think it would be fun to do the song like a mini-opera, like a cross between the South Park episode "W.T.F." and P.D.Q. Bach's "New Horizons in Music Appreciation."
I think this could work if the commentators (blow-by-blow and color) had a specific style that is used through the entire song, like a thread that ties it all together, but when we go to the action in the ring there's a different style of music representing the different wrestlers fighting.
For instance, all of the dialogue for the commentators could be like this: Rozen Maiden - OP Kinjirareta Asobi - 01 - Kinjirareta Asobi, where it alternates between the symphonic exposition (where they explain why wrestler X has a grudge against wrestler Y) and the breathless rapid description of the action taking place in the ring, interspersed with melodic poetry as if the fighters suddenly went into Matrix-style slow-motion and it goes all ballet (The Chrono Crusher slips out of time and pirouettes through the air like a giant parade balloon swinging a folding chair.)
You could use all sorts of standard sci-fi tropes in this song, like it could start out with the commentators introducing the show and setting things up for the first fight, here the captain and crew of a starship challenge a team of space marines to a grudge match because one of the marines blew up the ship's robot maintenance droid ("We need that droid!" "I loved that droid!" "I'm carrying the droid's unborn child!") and set it to music along the lines of this: 01 HANAJI
Then it's back to the commentators who sing about the fighting going on (in their original commentator style), but then the fight is interrupted when a time traveling wrestler comes from the future with a cyborg fighter programmed to deliver pain to all who dare interfere with his mission to secure the belt, sung to a tune like this: 03 003 Smackdown Source
Then the commentators kick in again describing the battle but just as the cyborg assimilates the folding chair and is poised for a dramatic comeback, the cyberpunks enter the ring and hack his operating system to music along these lines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9dzfSz6a1w
And the commentators describe the fight as the chrono crusher and a space marine and the ship's captain take on the cyberpunks and reprogrammed cyborg but just as the fight reaches a dramatic climax, the King of Clones drops into the ring and announces his evil plan to take over the sci-fi wrestling federation by collecting all of the locker room towels and using the dna collected from them to create an entirely new, and evil, wrestling league, sung in a bombastic manner to the more emphatic parts of this song: King of Kong
A big fight breaks out with all of the previous wrestlers jumping into the ring and fighting the mixed-up clones (captain dirk has sunbuck in a shoulder lock! Sunbuck has Captain Dirk in a leg lock! Hey, that's not wrestling. And the referee kicks them out of the ring for excessive cuddling) and the commentators give an exciting account of the epic struggle as the King of Clones defeats his opponents and gives a haughty speech about how evil wins in the end, sung to something like this: 165 165 Zim's Speech
But just as he's about to claim the belt as his, there's a zap of powerful magic, the crash of thunder and the roar of a mighty dragon as the Fantasy Football League make a grandstanding entrance and in a dramatic speech Gandolf the Linebacker and Conan the quarterback explain that after vanquishing the Isengard Uruk-Hai's (or the Khazad-dum Dwarf Tossers) in the Ankh-Morpork Bowl (that went into sudden death... Saruman's) they are looking for new challenges to conquer and decided that they couldn't abide letting someone as evil as the King of Clones win the belt so have at thee! This could be sung to Norwegian patter style music (06 Pornopolka (Porno Polka) or Baltic States type of "I will smite you with my mighty hammer" song like Saglaten
Coming up next on the SyFy channel, "My Mother the Space Shuttle." Hey, considering what they did to Flash Gordon I wouldn't be surprised ;-)
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Now all of this are just suggestions, you do whatever you think best because you're the guy with all of the musical talent. I'm just a fawning fan (got my membership for Conflikt, get to see you perform in person! *Squee*) who failed two music classes. Can't keep time to save my life. You could use real science fiction movie characters, like:
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Robbie the Robot has Buck Rogers pinned. He's down for the count. It looks like... Wait a minute! The Giant Mantis is climbing into the ring! He's picking up Robbie the Robot and trying to eat his head off!
Is that a legal move?
Are they mating?
Hold on, folks, now Godzilla is entering the ring! He's putting the Mantis in a headlock!
Wasn't Godzilla put on probation for using his nuclear breath on the Amazing Shrinking Man?
Yes he was, and the referee is trying to remind him of that, but Godzilla is ignoring the referee! He doesn't care what rules he's breaking! He's out of control!
Look out! Here comes the Monolith with a folding chair!
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Or you could make up all of the names and special moves and such if you want. I'm not good at that. Maybe you could ask your LiveJournal friends to come up with names. Ask them something like "If you were a science fiction wrestler, what would be you name? What would be your special move and what would you call it? What would be your intro line?" or whatever they call it, like "The pulverizer from the past, the freak from the future, it's Chrono Crusher!" I'm sure they'd come up with much better names than I would.
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So, how's this for my first attempt at arranging a song? Is it too much? Is it FuMP worthy? Am I totally off track and heading over a cliff?