His solution to that particular problem was, of course, to write a new song, one titled “Captain Mudd.” In Russo’s mind, the main thing making this sequence “schizophrenic” was “there were all these cuts, it was happening again and again and again, and he was in that time loop.” By having a singular piece of music play throughout the entire montage, he hoped to give the scene cohesion that it wouldn’t otherwise have.
This montage is arguably the most memorable part of “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad,” and Russo’s new song is a big reason for the scene’s success. Rather than have this song play the same way throughout the montage, he “would do things like change the tempo a little bit, or slow down the tempo a little bit, or change something as opposed to trying to make a big shift every time.” Ultimately, the composer was quite pleased with how everything turned out, saying that this new song “was the thing that sort of kept it all together.”