The Kardashi-end
Today, Explained
Vox
4.3 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There is an alternate universe where this is the today explained theme song. |
| 0:15.3 | The song is called Morning, it's by Francis and the lights. |
| 0:19.0 | And back in 2017 when I was trying to figure out what this afternoon news show would sound |
| 0:24.4 | like, there was a moment where I ironically thought the song called Morning, |
| 0:29.8 | might be the right fit for the top of the show. |
| 0:33.3 | I reached out to the guy who wrote it, Francis Starlight and Francis was open to the idea. |
| 0:38.0 | There was just one problem. |
| 0:40.4 | The Kardashians were already using it. |
| 0:44.0 | You see, Francis is friends with Kanye, Kanye was happily married to Kim and Kim had taken |
| 0:49.5 | a liking to Morning and in 2017, she started to use it as the theme song for her reality |
| 0:54.8 | TV show Keeping Up With The Kardashians. |
| 0:57.1 | I didn't know it was the theme song because I have never seen an episode of Keeping Up |
| 1:02.4 | With The Kardashians. |
| 1:03.8 | The show ended yesterday after 14 years and 20 freaking seasons on the air and it's |
| 1:11.2 | hard to overstate its influence. |
| 1:13.3 | So today we're going to talk to someone who really kept up with the Kardashians. |
| 1:18.8 | I'm Zan Romanov and I am a full-time freelance writer and part-time Kardashian expert. |
| 1:24.0 | Part-time Kardashian expert. |
| 1:25.0 | You think that'd be a full-time job? |
| 1:27.1 | I mean, it is full-time in my head, but only part-time on my tax returns, I would say. |
| 1:33.5 | And the show ended after 14 years and 20 seasons last night. |
| 1:37.7 | Why have so many people spent 14 years following this family around? |
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