Music supervisor is a job that’s half skilled music nerd, half aural detective and half crate-digging enterprise affairs exec. 5 Songs is a Deadline sequence that highlights the work of those under the road staff by way of songs and tales.
Too A lot – the brand new Netflix comedy from Women’ Lena Dunham has a whole lot of music in it and for good cause.
Dunham’s husband and co-creator Luis Felber is a musician, who performs underneath the moniker Attawalpa. However he has a protracted affiliation to London’s scene as a member of Younger Turks, which began as a membership evening and become the XL Recordings-backed indie label behind The xx, and was a member of hardcore social gathering band Turbogeist, which was led by Mick Jagger’s son James, and labored on music along with his Rolling Stones dad for HBO’s Vinyl.
The present, which is about in London, stars Hacks’ Megan Stalter as Jessica, a New York workaholic in her mid-thirties, reeling from a damaged relationship that she thought would final without end and slowly isolating everybody she is aware of. Shifting to London, she meets Felix, performed by The White Lotus’ Will Sharpe, a person with some purple flags, and discover that their connection is not possible to disregard.
Produced by Common Worldwide Studios’ Working Title Tv and Dunham’s Good Factor Going, the sequence additionally options a whole lot of recurring stars together with Michael Zegen, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Rita Wilson, Rhea Perlman, Emily Ratajkowski, Richard E. Grant, Janicza Bravo, Andrew Rannells and Naomi Watts in addition to cameos from Jessica Alba, Jennifer Saunders, Stephen Fry, Andrew Scott, Equipment Harrington, Rita Ora and Alix Earle.
Music supervisors Iain Cooke and Amy Lee, who’ve beforehand labored on sequence equivalent to Amazon’s The English and Netflix’s The Gents, have been tasked with compiling an eclectic mixture of songs.
There are songs from A-list stars together with Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Fergie, Nicki Minaj, Kasey Musgraves, Kendrick Lamar, Nina Simone and Bob Dylan. There’s songs from rising stars equivalent to Fred Once more, Saweetie and The Dare. There’s additionally some sudden tracks equivalent to Viagra Boys’ cowl of John Prine’s “In Spite Of Ourselves” with Amyl and the Sniffers’ Amy Taylor, “The Burned Down Dairy Queen” from Wednesday’s Twin Plagues document, a canopy of The Fray’s “You Discovered Me” by Waxahatchee and her different half, former Woods member Kevin Morby, “Farewell Transmission” by Jason Molina’s early band Songs: Ohia and a lot of tracks by London’s “put up pub kebab store glam rock” band Sleaze.
WHAT WAS THE FIRST SONG YOU LICENSED FOR ‘TOO MUCH’?
Amy Lee: “London Bridge” by Fergie, after all. First music we hear within the sequence and the primary music we locked in. It was by no means going to be anything.
THE MOST UNEXPECTED CUE IN ‘TOO MUCH’?
Iain Cooke: I feel a few of my favourite sudden makes use of come from the very particular artists that we have been capable of collaborate with, who’re actually a part of Lena’s sphere and testomony to her pulling energy. We have been capable of get an unique piano model of “Massachusetts” from Jensen McRae, we had Suki Waterhouse’s “Dream Lady” – impressed by the sequence, Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee recording a model of The Frays’ “You Discovered Me” – these all play over integral scenes and punctuate key moments within the sequence, and I’m certain can be completely loved by the viewers.
Lee: I additionally couldn’t have referred to as Lena requesting a Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee cowl of The Fray, them saying sure and it working so properly. Waxahatchee’s voice is ideal for that music. Except for that, for saying this can be a massive Netflix sequence with a mega-star-studded solid, there are some fairly obscure artists featured on the soundtrack. “See You Later” by U.N.O.P.C on the finish of Ep 8 is possibly fairly sudden? But additionally, Lena is the good, so you’ll be able to actually recommend to her closing an episode with a music made on a 4-track cassette recorder by a Scottish man, little identified outdoors of Sweden, for some cause, and if she likes it, she is going to say sure.
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SONG IN ‘TOO MUCH’?
Lee: For me, the Miley Cyrus second in episode two when Jess sings “Angels Like You” to Zev was a catalyst for most of the concepts I dropped at Lena and Luis, particularly round Jess’ scenes. Zev is an amalgamation of each horrible boyfriend you’ve ever had — the ultimate boss of dangerous exes — and one among his earliest offenses is dismissing Jess’ style in music, saying it isn’t ‘actual music’. Sadly for Jess, Zev’s offenses get so much worse than insulting Miley Cyrus, however by way of occupied with what music to current within the early phases, that second felt fairly vital. Zev expressed a broader cultural angle the place pop music, and popular culture on the whole, significantly when it resonates primarily with girls, is commonly labelled as shallow or unsophisticated. So, in response to that scene, I used to be fairly intent on retaining in as a lot sensible, highly effective, attention-grabbing pop as attainable inside the price range we had. Artists like Kesha, Nicki Minaj, Miley, Fergie, Jade, Kacey Musgraves, Lil’ Kim, Rachel Chinouriri, Taylor Swift, Sugababes — all introduced one thing that felt consultant of pop at its highest high quality, and the music loved by ladies like Jess, of probably the most discerning style.
THE HARDEST SONG TO LICENSE FOR ‘TOO MUCH’?
Lee: I wouldn’t say any specific cues spring to thoughts, there’s at all times a good quantity of looking down songwriters and convincing to do in any challenge, however that’s all a part of the enjoyable. Probably the most tough half by way of licensing was simply the sheer quantity of music within the present. It was a giant job. I’m very drained now.
Cooke: We have been very fortunate on the whole. I feel due to Lena’s fame for curating soundtracks, equivalent to with Women, we had little or no resistance general when it got here to artists giving us permission to make use of their music inside this sequence. There are some huge artists who function on the soundtrack and that’s testomony to Lena’s fame as a music fan, and her utilizing music in a really distinctive, daring and respectful means.
FAVOURITE SONG ON ‘TOO MUCH’?
Cooke: I feel my favourite music throughout the sequence might be Saweetie’s “Faucet In” in episode 4 primarily as a result of it seems in such an insane scene. We’d learn the script, so knew it was going to be enjoyable. However I keep in mind the primary time we noticed that scene being fully enraptured – watching Jessica’s promoting boss (performed by Richard E Grant) and his spouse (performed by Naomi Watts) having a grown-up feast with their pals and colleagues and the socially awkward dynamics enjoying out, after which everybody shifting upstairs into their social gathering attic, strolling round with trays laden with medication and seeing these good characters dance and grind up towards one another whereas everybody will get larger and a better. Saweetie’s “Faucet In” elevated an already totally iconic scene.
Lee: There’re so many. The reprise of “London Bridge” on the finish of episode one makes me giggle a lot. The highschool imply ladies stroll into the restaurant to Lil Kim in episode two, the Cate Le Bon mixtape second in episode two that performs out for lengthy sufficient to take you from ‘that is bizarre and awkward’ to ‘that is the tenderest, loveliest factor I’ve ever seen.’ Misty Miller and Luis’ cowl of “Praying” by Kesha on the finish of episode six will get me each time, it’s so beautiful.
TOO MUCH TRACK LISTING
Episode 1:
London Bridge by Fergi
No Dangerous Vitality by Miraa Might
Useless or Alive by Cam’Ron
Daffodils by Sleaze
Dynamite by Ese and the Vooduu Folks
All the time The Women by Attawalpa
Gradual Like Honey by Fiona Apple
Episode 2:
Strain to Social gathering by Julia Jacklin
Itty Bitty Piggy by Nicki Minaj
In Spite Of Ourselves by Viagra Boys with Amy Taylor
Ashita Atari wa Kitto Haru by Completely happy Finish
Farewell Transmission by Songs: Ohia
Angels Like You by Miley Cyrus
The Burned Down Dairy Queen by Wednesday
The Leap Off by Lil Kim
4th of July by Hand Habits
You Know Extra Than I Know by John Cale
Are You With Me Now by Cate Le Bon
Episode 3:
Contact Tank by Quinnie
Adore U by Fred Once more
Maggot Mind by Funkadelic
Falling Aside by Gradual Pulp
Episode 4:
No Limitations by Attawalpa
Something by Adrianne Lenker
Faucet In by Saweetie
Get Silly by Joshwa
Butterflies by Kasey Musgraves
Episode 5:
Angel Of My Goals by Jade
Inexperienced Lady by Misty Miller
Push Tuck by Sleaze
Greek Tragedy by The Wombats
Eyesore by Ladies
Massachusetts (Stripped again model) by Jensen McRae
Too Late by Carole King
Pocket by Rachel Chinouriri
Dream Lady by Suki Waterhouse
Episode 6:
When The Ship Comes In by Bob Dylan
Sister You Stated by Sarah Meth
Praying (Kesha cowl) by Misty Miller
Episode 7:
Human by Molly Sarlé
You Discovered Me (The Fray cowl) by Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee
Episode 8:
Large Vitality by Latto
Get Busy by Sean Paul
Swimming Swimming pools by Kendrick Lamar
See You Later by U.N.P.O.C
Episode 9:
Women by The Dare
Don’t Smoke in Mattress by Nina Simone
Farewell Transmission by Songs: Ohia
Free by NRVS
Episode 10:
Outdated Recliners by Position Mannequin
Greater Than The Complete Sky by Taylor Swift
Run for Cowl by Sugababes
I Wish to See The Vibrant Lights Tonight by Richard and Linda Thompson
True Love Trajectory by Attawalpa
