Great Songs in Television #MusicMonday

Great Songs in Television #MusicMonday

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Music supervisors suggest songs as possibilities for needle drops in TV shows. It’s a job that requires a broad knowledge of music, an intimate understanding of the show and its characters, and a great deal of self-awareness. Here’s more from The Ethan Hein Blog:

It seems like being a music supervisor would be an easy job (choosing the music, anyway; negotiating the licenses doesn’t seem easy at all). But it is hard to get it exactly right, because songs have to work on so many different levels at once. Any piece of recorded music comes tangled in a dense web of signifiers and associations, most of which act on us unconsciously. One common trap is for music supervisors to project their own excellent taste onto characters who are unlikely to be as cool as they are.

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