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You know you love a pretty girl, with a kitchen knife... 



We are so excited to be joined by our good friend Zaina for this week's episode of "Whose Tangent Is It Anyway?" Tansy is taking the reins to pitch a tense, sexy (?) thriller based on Betty Who's "Mama Say", a song that Charles just straight up doesn't like. Expect twists, turns,  and multiple tangents based on a single actor's name.



Songs Featured:

Mama Say (Betty Who)

Nürburgring (Hanz Zimmer)

It's all right and it's coming along, it wasn't 2020 when she wrote this song... 



This week we are joined by our good mate Lucinda - writer, director and one half of "Out of Our Vulcan Minds" - as she pitches a horror movie meets spooky rom com based on Maxine Nightingale's disco hit, Right Back Where We Started From.



Expect Umbrella Academy chat, Star Wars vs Star Trek discourse, fros, rollerblades, disco heaven and the disco inferno.



Songs Featured:

Right Back Where We Started From (Maxine Nightingale)

Gotta Be The One (Maxine Nightingale)

Hideaway (Maxine Nightingale)

Lead Me On (Maxine Nightingale)

Dancing Queen (ABBA)

September (Earth, Wind & Fire)

Disco Heaven (Lady Gaga)

Disco Inferno (The Trammps)

Burn It To The Ground (Michael Andrews)

I was handy with a blaster, my father's 303. 

I fought for something final - not the right to disagree. 

We're taking our tenuous relationship with copyright law to a new level and pitching a whole Star Wars TV series based on Leonard Cohen's Happens to the Heart. Expect spy drama, double crosses, cool but morally bankrupt uniforms and more women than there will ever be in a single Star Wars property (two).



Songs Featured:

Happens to the Heart (Leonard Cohen)

Mars (Gustav Holst)

Neptune (Gustav Holst)

Jackboot Jump (Hozier)

No, I Don't Remember (Anna Ternheim)

Main Title and The Imperial March (John Williams)

The Master Switch (Michael Giacchino)

Chasing the Pink Elephant (Michael Giacchino)

Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones)

Shit boys sure love the 1975, don't they?



In our first TikTok pitch, Charles is turning Lizzy McAlpine's earworm into a film about time travel, fatalism, bad relationships and the pain of loving a band that shit people also love! I don't think people read these descriptions so I'm putting minimal effort in!



Songs Featured:

You Ruined The 1975 (Lizzy McAlpine)

The Sound (The 1975)

Somebody Else (The 1975)

If You're Too Shy (The 1975)

Antichrist (The 1975)

A Change of Heart (The 1975)

Girls (The 1975)

M.O.N.E.Y. (The 1975)

The Birthday Party (The 1975)

It's Not Living If It's Not With You (The 1975)

Me (The 1975)

Galway Girl (Ed Sheeran)

Wonderwall (Oasis)

Rude (Magic)

What Makes You Beautiful (One Direction)

Train Heist (John Powell)

As Long As He's Safe (aka the song Tansy cries to) (John Powell)

You know the greatest films of all time were never made...

We're continuing our "tradition" of picking apart new Taylor Swift releases with half baked pitches with a breakdown of the entirety of folklore! It's a rambling, extensive breakdown of what we thought worked, what we hated and the double track audio on *him*

Taylor Swift Songs Featured:
the 1
cardigan
the last great american dynasty
exile
my tears ricochet
seven
august
this is me trying
illicit affairs
invisible strings
mad woman
epiphany
betty
peace
hoax
All Too Well
I Forgot That You Existed

Other Songs Featured:
Nebraska (Bruce Springsteen)
Homeland Theme (Sean Callery)
Indie Girl Introduces Us To Her Kitchen (Chrish)
Old Town Hurt (Demi Adejuyigbe)
Big Enough (but only the Jimmy Barnes Scream)

Tell me, Will... is Hannibal camp?

We've been fighting a lot at Pitch Shift HQ about Hannibal lately, so the only way to settle those arguments was to get Charles to pitch an elaborate horror comedy gay take on the quintessential man who eats men.

Songs featured:
Bite (Troye Sivan)
The John Cena Recorder Vine