Paint It Black

The Wednesday series takes the Rolling Stones' dark psychedelic original and strips away its frantic, almost frenzied energy, replacing it with something colder and more deliberate. The cover version used in the show inhabits a slower, more cavernous space — the signature guitar figure is retained but processed into something with more decay, more shadow, played as though through fog. What was originally a song about existential dread manifesting as visual obsession becomes, in this version, something that feels architectural: gothic in the structural sense, like a building designed to unsettle. The vocal performance leans into theatricality without becoming self-parody, walking the line the show itself walks between genuine darkness and knowing aesthetic. Placed within the context of Wednesday Addams's world — where the macabre is simply the natural condition of existence rather than a stance against it — the song functions as a kind of theme statement. Everything you see here will be painted in black, and the girl at the center of it considers that entirely correct. It works best as the kind of song you encounter in a show and then carry with you; its context becomes inseparable from its effect, and hearing it later brings back not just the melody but an entire visual and emotional atmosphere.