It’s a shame, clearly Stephen Merritt is being referenced in the opening theme song, but he either chose not to be involved or Netflix chose not to pay him. It’s very weird.

Like what was the last movie song you can remember?

Same thing happened to video game soundtracks. Nobody is going to be doing metal remixes of any of the ambient crap from the last 15 years.

What happened to cause this awful trend?

Well first most movie soundtracks aren't 'songs', and I personally don't go to the movies that often nor do I see recent films that much. But I do remember some melodies and themes from Up, the latest Star Trek/Wars bastardizations, and just about everyone remembers 'songs' (the term qualifies for what I'm about to mention) from Frozen.

Plenty of themes and soundtracks since the year 2000 were very melodic and memorable, but most aren't because most will not stand out or test the time. The opening songs to the latest Bond films were memorable, the opening theme from Catch me if you Can, again, the soundtrack from Up, and for goodness sakes Interstellar was actually very well done. The Harry Potter movies all have memorable music (Williams is notorious for copying leitmotifs like Wagner), The Hours (Philip Glass??), Malena, A Beautiful Mind (although part of that was from Bicentennial Man), Gladiator, Pan's Labyrinth, Inception, Lincoln, Saving Mr. Banks (although yes that's cheating), and I could go on and on.

I heard a theory about it that the reason memorable soundtracks are going away is that blockbusters are currently edited to placeholder music from preexisting soundtracks, which allows for visual cues to be hit reliably, but means that when the real soundtrack is put in, it has to match the cues of the placeholder. The biggest culprit here are Marvel blockbusters, and the only way you get a memorable soundtrack out of one of those is if the director in question is already pretty competent and knows what he wants to hear (Taika Waititi was able to get the sound he wanted for "Thor Ragnarok" because he used a lot of Giorgio Moroder in his placeholder score, which was unusual enough that Mark Mothersbaugh, a competent musician, knew exactly what would work).

I am pretty sure that a lot of these big movies just use the "Inception" soundtrack for pretty much everything in the placeholder process, so you constantly get a retread of WHOMMMMMM.

Harriet, those examples are all more than 15 years old.

Outright musicals like Frozen don't count.

I quit Star Wars after The Force Awakens, but I couldn't remember a single track from that that wasn't a remix of an original Star Wars theme.

Wow, the Marvel movies make a lot more sense after that explanation, CD, thanks.

Doctor Strange was pure mediocrity, but it does have one terrific element: the main theme music. But you won't find it in the film itself, because it only plays over the ending credits. Someone composed a great theme for the title character only to find that he couldn't fit it anywhere in the movie where the hero is actually onscreen.

Well, here it is so you don't have to sit through the dull-ass movie:

https://youtu.be/Q9eE8T1-jX4