Your dream job might not be 'music editor on a daytime TV property programme' - but maybe it should be. Whoever's in charge of picking the songs between clips during the BBC's auction show Homes Under the Hammer has made a career of picking songs that are cheekily appropriate to the woes of whoever's trying to do up their new house.
If you don't know what all this is about, keep an ear out next time you're watching the programme on BBC One. When someone's just bought a house, and is explaining to camera all of the problems that it's created for them, the music chimes in - and the lyrics are always spot-on.
Whoever's out there making these song choices... we salute you. Take this example - Kellie's frustrated that the work on the cellar has been more expensive than she hoped.
The narrator says:: "Sorting out the joists cost £5,000. It was vital, but unexpected work, and something that Kellie hadn't budgeted for." Then the music fades in:
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"I wasn't expecting that." Brilliant. And when you dive deeper, there's so much more of this going on. If someone's been looking for house for a year without finding anything - in come the words of Take That: "Just have a little... patience."
Someone's doing up a large house in a rural area... how else could you describe that, Blur? "He lives in a house, a very big house in the country" - ah yes. It seems like there are thousands of examples, and thankfully someone has knitted a bunch of them together:
People on TikTok couldn't get enough of it, either. One said: "You know that this was the favourite part of editing for the editors," with another adding: "Homes Under the Hammer is just perfectly chaotic but in a pleasantly daytime tv-ey way."
Sometimes, the music isn't even needed - presenter Martin Roberts has an 'invisible piano,' according to some TikTok users. It turns out, Martin's got a very simple formula for what to say when he checks back in with a house's new owners.
He'll say to the successful buyers: "Congratulations! Anyway, tell me why you wanted to buy this place" (or something to that effect) and will gesture towards the ground with his hands just in case there was any doubt about what he meant by 'this place.'
Turns out, this looks a lot like he's playing the piano. And because the Internet is the Internet, some genius out there has done the rest of the work:
Regular Homes Under the Hammer viewers will know the show has had hidden messages weaved through it regularly - when presenter Martin Roberts made an emotional return to the show after an awful health scare which saw him rushed to hospital, he wore an extra-bright shirt as a nod to his fans on Instagram - saying it was the closest thing to a bunch of flowers that he could give them.
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