Comments on: Abbeyites Get Down with Downton Abbey http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2012/01/20/abbeyites-get-down-with-downton-abbey/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Eleanor Seitz http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2012/01/20/abbeyites-get-down-with-downton-abbey/comment-page-1/#comment-156120 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:30:03 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=11842#comment-156120 Thanks, I didn’t actually see any of the trailers for this season before I watched it and just assumed that who ever edited the vid had chosen that song on their own. Good to know!

]]> By: Hannah http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2012/01/20/abbeyites-get-down-with-downton-abbey/comment-page-1/#comment-155663 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:57:40 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=11842#comment-155663 Very interesting and enjoyable column.

Re. “fans make sense of the sentimental moments intertextually through popular music which the vid creator may associate with intense romantic entanglements.” Maybe so, but the example you mention of the choir singing ‘With Or Without You’ did not originate from fan culture, but from the trailer campaign for Series 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoe3CoxcYm0 after the campaign for Series 1 successfully used this choir singing The Police’s ‘Every Breath You Take’. For the recent Christmas special they sang Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’ (don’t look it up if you’re still watching series 2 – spoilers!)

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