maryoliveoil:

Christopher Nolan didn’t have the balls to let the audience actually hear the siren’s song (Promiscuous by Nelly Furtado ft Timbaland)

— Sophia Benoit (@1followernodad) July 21, 2026ALT

ok this is funny but it got me also thinking about how one would faithfully adapt the sirens’ song in a movie

because as I understand it, they sang about whatever the listener most wanted, in the way that would most effectively convince him to come closer

which, if it was a song aimed specifically at Odysseus, yeah could be shown pretty lore-accurately, because all you gotta believe is “yeah this would convince Odysseus”

but…. what would it sound like if it’s a song that would convince EVERYONE on his crew. what would that even be

…funny enough (and embarrassingly because I hate to admit when Disney ever did anything well) I feel like one of the best interpretations was probably the Ducktales version.

where they’re just making vague meaningless sounds, until we fully shift into Scrooge’s perspective and then we start to hear …this