{"id":2202812,"date":"2025-12-17T15:26:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2202812"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:26:43","slug":"welcome-to-derry-showrunner-and-singing-voice-of-aladdin-wrote-pennywises-creepy-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/welcome-to-derry-showrunner-and-singing-voice-of-aladdin-wrote-pennywises-creepy-song\/","title":{"rendered":"WELCOME TO DERRY Showrunner (and Singing Voice of Aladdin) Wrote Pennywise&#8217;s Creepy Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"69.891854578923\">\n\t\t\t<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ????><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re still recovering from the epic season finale of<em> It: Welcome to Derry<\/em>, which saw the 1962 defeat of Pennywise. And one of the most twisted parts found <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"info-target-blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/bill-skarsgard-scares-welcome-to-derry-cast-in-pennywise-costume\/\">Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd\u2019s Pennywise<\/a> singing a sadistic song to terrified students of Derry High School, called \u201cEverytime We Say Goodbye.\u201d But did you know the singing voice of Disney\u2019s Aladdin wrote that creeptastic song? Not only that, Brad Caleb Kane, who voiced Aladdin in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"info-target-blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/original-1992-aladdin-t-shirt-6000-sale\/\">the 1992 animated classic<\/a>, is also <em>Welcome to Derry\u2019s<\/em> co-showrunner. Who knew?! Kane really went from Agrabah all the way to Derry. Hollywood career paths sure can be weird.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Disney\/HBO <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The little ditty comes at the start of the episode, in a moment that recalls another Stephen King classic, <em>Carrie<\/em>. The <em>Carrie <\/em>similarities happen when Pennywise traps the Derry High School students in the gym, as they scream to get out. This is after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"info-target-blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/scariest-most-shocking-brutal-moments-it-welcome-to-derry-series\/\">Pennywise murders their principal<\/a> and uses his corpse as a flesh puppet. He then goes on stage and sings \u201cWhen I close my eyes, and I dream of you\/I see your pretty faces, and I taste them too\/But my-oh-my, how I wish to cry\/every time we say goodbye.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"ignore\">A screaming Pennywise then unleashes the Deadlights on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"info-target-blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/it-welcome-to-derry-character-fates-stories\/\">the petrified kids<\/a>, and as they float upwards. He then hitches them all to his carnival wagon from hell, taking them into the now fog-covered town of Derry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ignore\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed youtube-embed\" data-videoid=\"-CY04BmubOk\">\n                            <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"youtube-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-CY04BmubOk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"youtube-cover progressive-img\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/-CY04BmubOk\/sddefault.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Youtube Video\" loading=\"lazy\" onerror=\"window.nerdistCallbackImageOnError &amp;&amp; window.nerdistCallbackImageOnError(event);\"\/><br \/>\n                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"play button\" src=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/wp-content\/themes\/nerdist_2021\/img\/icon-play-youtube.png\" class=\"play-button\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In the official <em>It: Welcome to Derry<\/em> podcast, creators Andy and Barbara Muschietti reveal that the song was their idea. Andy Muschietti knew that co-showrunner Brad Kane had a musical background. So he gave him the words \u201cEvery time we say goodbye,\u201d asking him to write a song containing that phrase. Muschietti said he came back in ten minutes with the song, which he found perfect. <\/p>\n<p>He said the final recording became creepier when the show\u2019s composer created a \u201cdecomposing orchestra\u201d sound for the music. It\u2019s one of the show\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"info-target-blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/it-welcome-to-derry-stephen-king-easter-eggs-pop-culture-references\/\">most disturbing moments<\/a>, and it\u2019s wild that it came from the sweet voice that once sang \u201cA Whole New World<em>.\u201d <\/em>It\u2019s so sinister, in fact, we can\u2019t help but wonder if Aladdin has just a wee bit of Jafar in him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ignore\">All of season one of <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"info-target-blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hbomax.com\/shows\/it-welcome-to-derry\/6c39354a-c52d-46d7-982c-b5d196988189\">It: Welcome to Derry<\/a><\/em> is now streaming on HBO Max.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nerdist.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re still recovering from the epic season finale of It: Welcome to Derry, which saw the 1962 defeat of Pennywise. And one of the most twisted parts found Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd\u2019s Pennywise singing a sadistic song to terrified students of Derry High School, called \u201cEverytime We Say Goodbye.\u201d But did you know the singing voice of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2202813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WELCOME-TO-DERRY-Showrunner-and-Singing-Voice-of-Aladdin-Wrote.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202814,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202812\/revisions\/2202814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}