海角大神

Creatures on an upcoming Netflix family series are getting into the Beatles in a big way. But they're much smaller than the walruses, octopuses, or bulldogs you may be imagining.聽

The show will tell the story of five pals who are known as the Beat Bugs, and find out more about the backyard in which they live. It will arrive this August.

Various artists including the Shins and Sia will cover various songs by the Fab Four for the upcoming animated show.聽

The program is the newest offering from the streaming service, which also is behind such TV shows as 鈥淗ouse of Cards,鈥� 鈥淥range Is the New Black,鈥� and 鈥淯nbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.鈥澛�

By incorporating the music of the Beatles, the series 鈥淏eat Bugs鈥� will be using what are often called some of the best songs ever created.

Doubtless Netflix wouldn鈥檛 be going ahead with an animated show using Beatles songs if the streaming service wasn鈥檛 fairly sure the music would resonate with viewers. More than 40 years after the group dissolved, why are the Beatles still at the forefront of pop culture?聽

Many consider the songs timeless.聽 selected members John Lennon and Paul McCartney as the third- and second-best songwriters of all time, respectively, with staff writing, 鈥淛ohn Lennon's command of songwriting was both absolute and radically original: that was clear from his earliest collaborations with Paul McCartney, which revolutionized not just music, but the world.鈥澛�

writes that the Beatles鈥� tunes never sound antiquated. 鈥淭he melodic, instantly memorable tunes of The Beatles are ingrained in the DNA of modern civilization,鈥� Gundersen writes. 鈥淥n this golden anniversary [of their first single 鈥楲ove Me Do鈥� in 1962], their golden oldies sound as vital and fresh as ever and continue to bewitch new generations.鈥澛�

聽says that some of the timelessness of the sound comes from the different styles of the band members:

鈥淭he Beatles' music endures above all because we sense in it the power of the collaboration of opposites,鈥� Gopnik wrote. 鈥淛ohn had reach. He instinctively understood that what separates an artist from an entertainer is that an artist seeks to astonish, even shock, his audience. Paul had grasp, above all of the materials of music, and knew intuitively that astonishing art that fails to entertain is mere avant-gardism.鈥�

The group also arrived at the best possible moment, writer Martin Lewis told USA Today.

鈥淭he Beatles made rebellion constructive, articulating it with joyous, giddy exuberance,鈥� Lewis said. 鈥淎t a time when cigar-chomping moguls paid people in cubicles to write factory-farm pop songs for teenagers, The Beatles were completely authentic, and kids instinctively understood that.鈥�