Now here's where it ain’t so great watching network preview screeners to review new shows (even sans commercials).
“Aliens in America” -- the smart cross-cultural comedy just premiered Mondays on The CW/11 -- arrived in critics’ hands without its main title sequence/theme song. Which turns out to be super cool.
Echoing the series’ American and Pakistani student pals, the show-open pairs Michigan-born PJ Olsson and Salman Ahmad of Pakistan’s rocking band Junoon to deliver “(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding.” The song also appears on Olsson’s “American Scream” CD dropping Oct. 16.
Says The CW press release, “Both musicians grew up playing the traditional music of their cultures and were transformed by their experience with rock ‘n’ roll. Olsson grew up in an orchestral family and sang gospel music in church, but it was the experience of seeing Pink Floyd that inspired him to seek a career in music. In Pakistan, Ahmad played Sufi devotional music, but when he came to America at the age of 11 and saw Jimmy Page perform ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ everything changed for him as well.”
Find the pair’s music video and more info here. (Junoon videos here.)
Watch CW “Aliens in America” video here.