Bel-Air Secretly Uses The Fresh Prince Song (But You Might've Missed It)
Warning! Minor spoilers ahead for Bel-Air episode 1.
Peacock's Bel-Air no longer uses The Fresh Prince’s theme song for its intro, but the reboot did secretly include it in the first episode. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’s theme song remains one of the most iconic TV themes of all time, partially due to its narrative explaining the entire set-up of the series, but mostly due to the catchiness of Will Smith’s tune. The song “Yo Home to Bel-Air” was composed and produced by DJ Jazzy Jeff, who played Jazz on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and the real-life Will Smith under his stage name The Fresh Prince, and grew to become as famous — if not more so — as the series itself.
While the reason for Bel-Air not using The Fresh Prince song makes sense due to the original theme’s goofiness contrasting the serious tone of the reboot, Bel-Air also lacks a theme of such stature. Bel-Air’s theme is “Deja Vu (feat. TYuS)” by Easy McCoy, which only plays a few bars over the title card before moving back into the plot. The new theme for Bel-Air aligns with its modern, more serious tone and frequent use of contemporary rap and hip-hop, but it’s still disappointing for Fresh Prince fans to no longer hear Smith’s old song.
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The Fresh Prince theme song doesn’t play over Bel-Air’s opening credits, but the series does make a reference to the iconic theme. When Will first arrives at the Banks’ mansion, he greets Bel-Air's Aunt Viv warmly before she asks what exactly happened in the fight that sent him to California. When answering, Will nonchalantly plays off the situation and says, “I got in one little fight… and my mom got scared...” As Fresh Prince viewers recall, “I got in one little fight and
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