If your phone announces calls with the Marimba ringtone, it’s time for a change. Might we suggest the addictive “Succession” theme?
By Matthew Kitchen Oct. 9, 2019 12:29 pm ET A RINGTONE IS MEANT to shock you out of whatever daze you’re in, alert you to the possibility of good or bad conversations and force a quick decision by being sufficiently annoying. The unanswered echo of Apple’s standard “Marimba” ringtone can drive an entire office to madness.
I’m not alone. I’ve heard composer Nicholas Britell’s haunting mixture of classical music and modern beats in the coffee line, on the subway platform, on street corners—a melody Mr. Britell told me was meant to evoke a “dark, chordly feeling that the Roy family might imagine for themselves.” Joked Alex Quinn, 28, a video editor from Liverpool, England, “Setting the ‘Succession’ theme as my ringtone was a bad idea because now I actively want people to call me.
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