--- title: Friends Theme Song Metal Cover VIDEO description: A new viral video gives Friends' poppy theme song a metal twist canonical: https://time.com/4394784/the-friends-theme-song-got-a-heavy-metal-makeover/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-06T16:16:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:05.816Z og:title: The Friends Theme Song Got a Heavy Metal Makeover og:description: No one told you life was gonna be this way og:url: https://time.com/4394784/the-friends-theme-song-got-a-heavy-metal-makeover/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Friends Theme Song Got a Heavy Metal Makeover twitter:description: No one told you life was gonna be this way twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The _Friends_ Theme Song Got a Heavy Metal Makeover by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 6, 2016 4:16 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 6, 2016 4:16 PM UTC The theme song of Taylor Swift’s [favorite TV show](http://time.com/4299170/taylor-swift-favorite-tv-show-73-questions-vogue/?iid=sr-link4) just got a metal makeover. A new viral video gives _Friends’_ poppy theme song a metal twist and noted metal head Phoebe Buffay would be thrilled to know that it kind of works. While Phoebe was a big fan of metal act [Carcass,](https://youtu.be/fd-zYVHbLNc) this hard grinding version comes courtesy of YouTube channel [Frog Leap Studios](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC98tcedR6gULv8%5Fb70WJKyw) and musician Leo Moracchioli, who sings the song almost as an ode to his Flying V guitar. Moracchioli channels his inner [Ozzy Osbourne](http://time.com/4322717/ozzy-osbourne-sharon-marriage/?iid=sr-link1) (or is that [ Oderus Urungus](http://time.com/35450/gwar-oderus-urungus-dave-brockie-death/?iid=sr-link1) or Carcass’s lead singer Jeff Walker?) and lets loose with his take on the Rembrandts’ “I’ll Be There For You” complete with umbrella twirling and couch jumping. Previously, the _Friends_ theme song has been paired up with [_Harry Potter,_](http://time.com/3754102/harry-potter-friends-theme-song-mashup/?iid=sr-link2)[_Broad City,_](http://time.com/3849259/broad-city-friends-mashup/?iid=sr-link3) and even [_The Walking Dead_](http://time.com/4069829/walking-dead-friends-mashup/?iid=sr-link1) but there’s something about this metal version that rules them all. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4394784/the-friends-theme-song-got-a-heavy-metal-makeover/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4394784/the-friends-theme-song-got-a-heavy-metal-makeover/"},"headline":"The Friends Theme Song Got a Heavy Metal Makeover","datePublished":"2016-07-06T16:16:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:05.816Z","description":"No one told you life was gonna be this way","url":"https://time.com/4394784/the-friends-theme-song-got-a-heavy-metal-makeover/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Music","Friends","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4394784/the-friends-theme-song-got-a-heavy-metal-makeover/","name":"The Friends Theme Song Got a Heavy Metal Makeover"}}]}] ```