Pitch Shift

Slow hands, like claws starting to eviscerate me...

With horror, violence and abundant fuccboi murder, Charles takes on the debut single of everyone's third or fourth favourite member of One Direction! Marshall is your typical wealthy young man, when he gets caught in the snare of the irresistible Lilith, who has more planned for him than he thinks. Murder, it's murder, she's planning to murder him.

Plus you get to hear all of Charles' One D dating theories, Tansy trying to name all five members of One Direction, and a surprising amount of chat about Deltora Quest.

Songs Referenced:

- Slow Hands (Niall Horan)

- Strong (One Direction)

- History (One Direction)

- Drag Me Down (One Direction)

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Lil ditty, bout a bunch of Gen Z kids in a haunted house...

This week, Tansy is taking on John Cougar Mellencamp's classic tale of two American kids growing up in the heartland - adding in five Gen Z kids from New York who leave the big city to squat in a definitely haunted house in Tennessee. It's a horror comedy featuring all the Pitch Shift favourites - ghosts, memes, sarcastic teens and Zendaya.

In 1962, two all American kids fell in love. In 2019, a nurse, her brother, a fake German popstar, a conspiracy theorist and a rich kid with good hair will learn their story.

John Cougar Mellencamp songs referenced:

- Jack and Diane

- R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.

- Thank You

- Without Expression

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Man! This pitch got out of hand.

What started as a humble attempt for Charles to make a film out of Shania Twain's trans anthem Man! I Feel Like A Woman has spiralled into a full blown Shania Twain Jukebox musical about the modern trans and queer experience. Travis is a little rough around the edges but he's doing his best in the face of gentrification, workplace discrimination and drag politics. It's a wild ride and we are on board.

Shania Twain songs referenced:

- Man! I Feel Like A Woman

- You're Still The One

- Come On Over

- I'm Gonna Getcha Good

- From This Moment

- Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under

- Up!

- The Woman In Me (Needs The Man In You)

- That Don't Impress Me Much

Celine Dion songs referenced:

- Ashes

- Because You Loved Me

- It's All Coming Back To Me Now

Baby! Take Me! To The! London Blitz!

This week on Pitch Shift, Tansy is going as far from the source material as possible with her World War Two screwball comedy about a fake clairvoyant and a rich girl ghost who share a body and pull scams. Yes, this is based on the Carly Rae Jepsen song with the saxophone siren. It's... loose.

Rosalind Sharpe is a dodgy fake psychic taking advantage of the WW2 boom in dead people who gets more than she bargained for when she accidentally summons the selfish and recently deceased Ella Gold to share her body. Together, they fool most of London into believing Rosalind can contact dead soldiers, but Ella's unfinished business is closer to home than Rosalind thinks...

yes, it's another ghost movie. fight me.

As if Billie Eilish wasn't spooky/sad enough already, Charles is here to pitch his spooky/sad arthouse film version of wish u were gay, featuring a piano, a haunted house, Jamie Dornan and actual lesbians. Plus a bonus discussion about how Last Christmas sounds like a film we'd pitch on the show, and the story of how Tansy accidentally became Wonder Woman.

I'm sorry, Juliet can't come to the phone right now. Why? Cos she's stuck in an unsettling small town age-gap romance in Tansy's pitch for an indie drama film version of Taylor Swift's Love Story. There's small town politics, ute musters, doxxing, and a lot of confusion between Tim and Gavin McGraw - are you ready for it?

Ever wondered if Elton John's classic "Honky Cat" was about a horrifying goose-cat hybrid grown in a lab and infused with Nick Kroll's hubris? In the first ever episode of Pitch Shift, Charles pitches a creature feature version of the Elton John song that stars a honking monster and mashes up Frankenstein, The Fly, Us and Jurassic Park.