the melodies are Also It’s important ფ Iphoria creator Sam Levinson, but sometimes the challenge is to give him exactly what he wants, says Jen Malone, music director of the HBO / HBO Max series.
“Of course you can have the most perfect song in the whole world. But if you can’t clean it, you can’t use it, “Malone said during a panel discussion on Deadline’s Sound & Screen.” When Sam really wants the song, I’ll do my best to get it. “
Sometimes your cup flows – there were 37 songs in the show’s pilot episode. But that doesn’t always mean that everyone is trying to get their own tunes. ფ Iphoria. “I face some denials. We use a lot of catalog music. We are faced with farms that are not at all comfortable with the content [of the show]. “
Malone says his job is to become a true detective when it comes to tracking down the rights to the songs. He recalled how Levinson tried to cover Sharon Cash’s “Fever”, but the master of the record label only existed in the late 1960s. Then he deleted everything he could from Discogs, the audio recording database, and the White Pages website to find someone to whom Cash.
“You have to go very deep,” admits Malone.
But when he manages to track down the rights, the feeling is: you guessed it! – Euphoria. He remembers writing to Tupac Shakur’s estate about using some of his works by him and was moved to hear the response from a woman who supported his mission.
“I thought: this is the most beautiful message I have ever received in my life! I had a wonderful conversation with him. “They are very protective of Tupac, who would be a fan of Zendaya, he would fall in love with her,” he said. So we got the approval. I’d be a fan of the show. “
Watch the panel video on Monday.
Source: Deadline
