Discover the real meaning behind the Mating Season theme song by AJR: inside the lyrics, the chaotic energy, and the psychological irony of the Netflix show.
The world definitely needed Mating Season. It marks the return of the creators behind Big Mouth, bringing a new, irreverent animated series set in a forest that is much wilder than usual. The main characters are animals caught in the absolute peak of the horniest time of the year: a wild depiction of a total hormonal storm, made even crazier by the fact that the protagonists are indeed animals, and therefore entirely free from the typical self-restraint of human beings.
And in the middle of all this, the world also needed the theme song of Mating Season to be written by AJR. The American trio composed the song specifically for the Netflix series, and their modern vibe made them the ideal candidates to represent the sweet confusion of the show’s characters. As young poets uniquely capable of interpreting contemporary anxiety, AJR crafted a track that chronicles the bizarre quirks of a world spinning out of control, perfectly mirroring the very scenes we watch unfold on screen.
Wake Up, It’s Mating Season: The Chaotic Irreverence of AJR’s Theme Song
Mating Season is a wild snapshot of the modern world’s insanity, viewed through innocent eyes that have no idea how to interpret what they are witnessing. In a pitch-perfect take on the spirit of the Netflix series, AJR uses simple words to paint the endless carousel of today’s society, where new eccentricities pop up at every turn. Trying to rationalize it is a lost cause, so the only real option left is to try and ride the wave of chaos as best as one can.
The narrator doesn’t even attempt to offer an explanation. What he experiences is simply there, and he confines himself to observing it and reporting back the raw sensations. After all, a human being in love isn’t exactly more cerebrally lucid than a wild animal during mating season, making his intentions clear, direct, and completely stripped of complex emotional layers:
Wake up, it’s mating season
Pick up, I’m in pieces
‘Cause I’ve been catching feelings
While you’re catching up
I’m no good at romance
I can’t even slow dance
But I’ve been catching feelings
I think it might be love
Come on, it’s mating season
So mate and call me up
And if the story merely focused on chasing the feelings that take over when hormones flare up, it would be easy enough to follow along. But AJR takes it a step further, illustrating the modern world with strokes that are arguably even crazier than the frantic woodland of Mating Season. As a result, while the protagonist is already confused enough by his own feelings, he also has to navigate the absolute madness he witnesses all around him:
My buddy’s brother’s hooking up with someone just like his mother
And your sister and her therapist are under the covers
Now my еx is playing hard to get
I don’t even want hеr
What the hell
I say we jump in the water sayin’
My aunts and uncles started swinging
But they can’t find a lover
Your little cousin popped the question to his driving instructor
Oh, would you look outside your window
‘Cause I’m out on your corner
Screaming “hey”
I say we jump in the water
It truly makes you want to dive straight into the water just to hit reset on your brain. Ultimately, the world we inhabit is just as insane as the animal community we watch in Mating Season, and the song does nothing less than translate the core perception that birthed the series into the reality of the human dimension. This is precisely why there was such a massive need for AJR: very few others could have captured modern anxiety with a melody that fits an adult animated show so seamlessly.
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AJR’s Secret Weapon
With this original composition, AJR took a chaotic, hormonal storm and wrapped it in the unmistakable pop style that the world has come to know through their discography. On the surface, the song sounds like a carefree, high-impact anthem, perfect for the opening credits of an animated show. Beneath the surface, however, pulses the exact type of vulnerability the band has accustomed us to: the story of a deeply anxious individual, ill-suited for modern relationships and terrified of the idea of not being enough, immersed in a world where everyone else seems to let themselves be swept away by their instincts without a care in the world.
It is exactly the same wild irony that drives the entire Netflix series. Through the bizarre and uninhibited adventures of the forest animals, the creators do nothing less than expose our own insecurities, our emotional needs, and the perennial, funny awkwardness with which we look for love (or simply connection) in a society spinning out of control. Thanks to the theme song penned by AJR, Mating Season finds its perfect psychological identity: a pop, irreverent reminder that, deep down, we are all a bit like animals lost in the jungle of contemporary relationships.
