Monsters, Inc. is Pixar's 2001 animated film about monsters who power their city with children's screams, and its main theme was composed by Randy Newman. Newman's Dixieland-inspired jazz score, full of swinging horns and playful energy, became one of the film's most recognisable elements and won wide praise alongside the movie's songs. Online, the theme was repurposed as a very loud meme clip, shared on soundboards and in short edits where the familiar, friendly tune is made intentionally overwhelming for comic contrast.