What song is in the Star Wars: Skeleton Crew trailer?

The new Star Wars: Skeleton Crew trailer makes ingenious use of real-world music to set the tone for the next Star Wars TV program. 2024 was a very difficult year for the Star Wars fandom, but excitement is building for Christmas – with the upcoming release of a TV show unlike any other. Skeleton Crew we’ll see a bunch of kids being launched from an Earth-like planet to the Star Wars galaxy, where they must survive while trying to find their way home.

What’s new from Lucasfilm Skeleton Crew trailer shows the perfect Christmas food. It opens with a striking beat that seems to have come out of the “roboticismo” musical style, before moving into something much more exotic. The overall feel evokes the 1980sdoing Skeleton Crew I feel like Star Wars‘Try to throw it to the Stranger Things audience – young characters, 80s nostalgia and so on. But the song is actually much more appropriate than it first appears.

The song for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is “Major Tom (Coming Home)” by Peter Schilling

The music is “Major Tom (Coming Home)” by Peter Schillinga German synthpop musician known for science fiction-themed songs. This is his most famous hit; was released on March 24, 1983 in German, with an English version released in September of that year. This version reached number one in Canada, number four in South Africa and peaked at number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. It even reached second place on the US dance chart.

Thematically, “Major Tom (Coming Home)” is a sequel of sorts to David Bowie’s “Major Tom” character. Depicts an astronaut who leaves Earth’s orbit and wanders in outer space while losing radio contact with Earth; the powerful image is used to speak to the emotional distance between the protagonist and the world beneath him. THE Skeleton Crew The trailer even talks about this, with sections that simply translate the traditional lyrics into what appears to be a strange language.

Why “Major Tom (Coming Home)” is the perfect song for Skeleton Crew

Very little is known about Star Wars: Skeleton Crew until the release of the trailer, which finally confirms the show’s full plot: a group of kids discover a crashed Old Republic ship and accidentally trigger its launch – heading to the Star Wars Galaxy. Like Major Tom in Schilling’s song, they watch the sphere of their world disappear beneath them. They must then dedicate themselves to “Coming Home”. It’s easy to see why Lucasfilm chose such a perfect song for Star Wars: Skeleton Crewevoking the right feeling while at the same time matching the themes of the show.