When Rian Johnson involves tv, he does so with a “massive swing,” as music supervisor Thomas Golubić places it. The a number of Emmy and Grammy nominee (“Higher Name Saul,” “Six Ft Underneath”) is on board for Johnson’s “Poker Face” starring Natasha Lyonne, who additionally govt produces the hour-long darkish comedy (and co-wrote and directs the eighth episode, “The Orpheus Syndrome”).
A former Guild of Music Supervisors president, and three-time GMS Award winner, most notably for “Breaking Unhealthy,” Golubic brings his greater than 20 years of music supervision expertise to “Poker Face.”
The primary season put Golubić’s cross-section of abilities to the check with hurdles like troublesome clearances to on-camera musical performances and creation of unique songs. Golubić met these challenges head-on with assist from his crew at SuperMusicVision, which incorporates Olivia Schlichting and clearance companies by Jill Meyers Music.
Golubić picks his favourite needle drops from the primary eight episodes beneath. And whereas he can’t share what songs are developing, he teases episode 9 had a Kendrick Lamar temp tune. “It was simply too costly, so we discovered a approach to be Kendrick Lamar, however not be Kendrick Lamar. The episode is a mixture of darkish and dreamy with a Magic Mountain sequence that includes a really cool tune,” he says.
And the finale, airing March 9, will “have a few shocking songs and a few deep cuts in between. We’ve an exquisite Bob Dylan cowl within the combine.”
Episode 1: “Lifeless Man’s Hand”
“Junior’s Farm” by Paul McCartney and Wings
“A part of being a music supervisor is realizing when it’s your job to provide you with an incredible, unique inventive concept, and when it’s your job to get another person’s concept to work. We have been attempting to determine the way to shut the primary episode and Rian wished ‘Junior’s Farm.’ It’s not an apparent Paul McCartney hit. It has an ideal reference to Junior, whom we now have within the on line casino. It stitches every little thing collectively. It’s additionally a giant swing. The present is Rian swinging the way in which he does in movies with a TV present. There’s quite a lot of swagger, and probably the most swagger is within the first episode to set that tone.”
Episode 2: “The Night time Shift”
“Yesterday Is Right here” by Tom Waits
“Within the earlier episode, Charlie talks about how she was completely joyful along with her life. She was in place. The truth that it received taken away due to dastardly deeds actually units up the premise of the present. She meets Marge (Hong Chau) who trains her on the way to keep invisible. It’s quite a bit about independence, however Charlie additionally engages with individuals and connects with them. That tune is a drifter tune, a tune about remorse, concerning the totally different deferred desires of everybody on this city. It actually captures the sensibility and units the tone over the opening credit.”
Episode 3: “The Stall”
“Simply You and Me” by Bobby Chandler
“I really like the premise of Charlie casually handing one of many two brothers an Okja and he fully adjustments his life. The battle was these characters we actually care about, together with the native radio station DJ who’s Black, and a racist canine, however we determined the closing wouldn’t be about these characters, it might be concerning the canine. It’s a good way to place a footnote. This was one thing I realized from Rian. He thinks in curveballs. We don’t want the tune to summarize the episode. As an alternative, it’s a means of letting the viewers know we’re ending this journey and on to the subsequent one.”
Episode 4: “Relaxation in Steel”
“Staplehead” by Doxxxology
“We needed to construct a tune that’s plausible as a success, ‘Staplehead.’ We needed to construct different songs that must be noticeably not nearly as good. The tune that’s the complete premise of the episode is a rip-off of the ‘Benson’ theme. We had complexities in visible vocal performances, songwriting and structuring, after which the clearance. What number of hoops can we presumably leap by? We received John Darnell who’s a pal of Rian’s and a fan of metallic to write down the songs and play the guitar participant within the band. He teamed up with Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta who lives in that world. Between the 2 of them, they have been in a position to create catchy, enjoyable and thrilling songs.”
Episode 5: “Time of the Monkey”
“Maintain On” by Ngozi Household
“The episode’s editor, Shaheed Qaasim and Rian crammed ‘Time of the Monkey’ with Rian’s favourite obscure songs. The trickiest one, that I’ve a private smooth spot for, is Ngozi Household’s ‘Maintain On,’ which exhibits up twice within the episode and closes it out. They’re a band from Zambia. They’re so charming and so enjoyable, and it feels random, but it surely feels nice. It’s one other instance of why Rian is such a pleasure to work with. Who would have thought that may be the tune to place in there? There’s a lovely uncooked genius to it.”
Episode 6: “Exit Stage Dying”
“The Frankly Franklin Medley” by Angela Parrish
“We had an fascinating and distinctive scenario the place we had a montage that was going to be all these well-known musical numbers from ‘The Wiz’ and ‘Cats.’ Clearing these songs is obscenely costly and we might want a grant of rights from the writers of these musicals. My suggestion was to herald a songwriter. Angela Parrish is an extremely humorous author. She put collectively an entire sequence of performs and Rian liked them. The one which grabbed him was ‘Frankly Franklin,’ which was a rip-off of ‘Hamilton, about Benjamin Franklin. It’s a brief montage of three songs and it’s extremely humorous.”
Episode 7: “The Way forward for the Sport”
“Drivin’ on 9” by The Breeders
“We have been taking part in round with quite a lot of rockabilly music and Americana for a working-class racing story. Rian pulled The Breeders’ ‘Drivin’ on 9’ to shut it out. It’s not a tune I might have considered. It’s completely totally different from every little thing else we had within the episode but it surely’s so heat and wonderful. I really like Kim and Kelly Deal’s voices. It’s a canopy and a lovely deep-cut Breeders tune. I get as enthusiastic about concepts that weren’t mine as I do with my very own. It’s the magic of Rian and it’s an ideal tune that feels fantastic.”
Episode 8: “The Orpheus Syndrome”
Francis Lai’s “Fille du Soleil”
“We needed to join the items of this ‘Vertigo’ Hitchcock-y sort of story with monster rating concepts, a few of which have been from libraries and a few have been from an present rating. It was virtually inconceivable to seize the sensibility and timelessness of these scores, however the composers, Nathan Johnson, who’s Rian’s cousin, and Judson Crane have been completely implausible. Additionally they built-in Charlie’s banjo-based theme right into a thriller rating. It was an fascinating tapestry. We discovered this positively fantastic tune from Francis Lai, “Fille du Soleil,” closing the episode that captures the totally different tones and emotions of the episode in a novel means.”
