You've got it in your head now, don't you? The Mii Channel music is iconic, and for good reason: it's a banger. We've seen freestyle raps, remixes with dances, Otomatone covers, and a 10-hour version with almost ten million views.
Charles Cornell is a musician who's covered such broad-ranging musical topics as "That One Song That Everybody Plays On Piano", a cover of The Twelve Days of Christmas that gets progressively jazzier, and a series called "Piano Dub Vines", where he provides a soundtrack to well-known Vine videos. In short, he's putting his musical knowledge to good use.

His latest video, entitled "The Wii Theme Music Is Unironically Really Good", he talks about exactly why it's so good. We would have been satisfied with "it's just a gosh darn jam", but apparently it's all down to clever use of chords, time signatures, and accents to create one of the finest bops of our generation.

When Cornell plays the Wii Sports Theme on the piano, it sounds like something your parents might listen to at a classy jazz bar. Moving on to the Wii Shop Theme, he plays a few bars while showing the sheet music transcription, and it becomes clear just how intricate the song really is.
The video is well worth a watch for musicians and amateur Wii music fans alike, and if you're anything like us, you'll probably head over to the 10-hour version straight afterwards. Don't worry, we totally understand.
Are there any people who dislike the Wii music? Let yourself be known in the comments, if you dare.
[source youtube.com]
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If any one says they hate the mii channel theme I'm sending matt from wii sports after you.
This just makes me really frustrated that Nintendo has done nothing with music for the Switch menus.
I miss theme music on Nintendo consoles. The GameCube, Wii and Wii U all had absolute bops. The 3DS themes were great too, still rocking my Dreamcast theme with the BIOS music.
@nessisonett I too miss the music and sounds of Nintendo consoles, it's what helps make them memorable. What music did the GameCube have? All I remember is the opening jingles and the somewhat eerie ambience that played while in the settings of the console.
Pretty neat. I like these kind of video that dissect VG music. I highly recommend Scruffy's videos on BotW and Now or Never if you are into this stuff.
Just what I needed to bash my head on a table over and over again for hearing this theme god knows how many times...
@Tourtus That’s what I meant, the weird ambient tune that played in the BIOS. Really relaxing and also quite creepy at the same time. The Switch doesn’t even have an ambient track which is a shame.
This Eurobeat remix of the Wii shop music is incredible:
https://youtu.be/gmaIv5JaryU
@Snatcher The Wuhu Island Executioner will gladly provide his services to protecc the wii's honor and attacc any who dare to criticize it
For anyone interested in similar deep dives into gaming music, 8-Bit Music Theory has one of the best channels on internet. Thoroughly, thoroughly recommended
https://youtu.be/TBSTHr6dFkI
Don‘t know how many times Mario bumped that coin block. And no one would know when that final series of jumps would happen...
Yes, Wii Shop was mostly waiting but this tune made up for it ^^
And I probably definitely lingered on the eshop much longer than I needed to because of that tune.
The OneUps have a really good version of this on one of their albums (Volume 2 I think it is). In fact, they have a lot a great video game music covers. Their Koopa Beach theme from Super Mario Kart is also really good.
The music and UI of the Wii had such an inviting feeling (for wanting of a better word). I miss the News/Weather channels as well, which got regular use, and was nice to have a bunch of stories and statistics loaded up at once, and I particularly loved being able to navigate the globe in both apps.
And don't get me started on the criminally underused Miis. sniff
Once that Wii music gets in to my head, it's hard to get it out. Funny how even "elevator music" can be so memorable.
Very interesting breakdown, and very cool how a master musician can put together a song that never ends and yet never really gets old because of the surprising additions to the chords and their progression.
@Tourtus The music that the GameCube main menu featured was a heavily, HEAVILY slowed down version of the Famicom Disk System BIOS intro song. Many people hadn’t noticed this until years later.
I’ll agree that I miss the music Nintendo usually always had on consoles. The Switch is way too bland, though I realize they’re trying to keep the console running as efficiently as possible without things like sound and picture files getting in the way.
@Linker2A03 Oh I didn't know that, I'll have to see if I can find a comparison online somewhere.
@TossedLlama Yeah, pretty much everything that guy touches is gold. I’m not a music school graduate or top tier theory nerd, but the way he annotates, demonstrates, and explains the ideas at play with such deft rigour and infectious enthusiasm makes for some of the best videos on YouTube.
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