#Music from i may destroy you series#
When you watch the series it’s easy to see how important some of the points with ‘harder’ content are vital to programme, but it’s easy to lose that nuance in a scene description! Yes, the subject matter meant that we did have to approach a few of the clearances with careful consideration. The episodes based in Italy also meant we had the pleasure of discovering some awesome Italian Hip Hop!ĭid you face any challenges with certain tracks due to the sensitive subject matter? There’s some really exciting music coming out of London at the moment and it’s wonderful to be as small part of giving it a platform – artists like Little Simz, Kojey Radical, Easy Life, Greentea Peng, Shakka, Paigey Cakey and the incredible London-based future jazz groups Sons of Kemet and Comet is Coming all add a unique tone to the scenes they score. This also provided a great opportunity to showcase a wealth of new talent, which is always one of the best bits about this job. The soundtrack functions to mirror and accentuate the voices of the people we see on scene, so when choosing tracks one of our main focusses was the artists the characters would be listening to. How did the setting of contemporary London influence the artists chosen? Some of my favourite tracks in the series are ones which we see reprised throughout in different contexts – for example with the multiple uses of ‘It’s gonna rain’ and ‘something about us’ we hear the same track, but because the context is different it means you interpret both the song and the moment differently. From a musical perspective, this is actually really freeing, as you’re not always doing the obvious thing, and I think that in itself can ironically have a strong emotional impact on the viewer as they try and make up their own minds about a particular sequence.
I think one of the best things about the series is that it doesn’t use the music to lead the viewer too strongly to a particular emotional response. The series unpacks themes of trauma and self-discovery, were there any strong musical moments across the episodes that highlight this? We used that as a jump-off point to provide ideas that would work within that context, with a few surprises thrown in that we thought would complement the character of the show.
#Music from i may destroy you plus#
In our first meeting we had a long discussion about her musical vision for the show plus some reference points for the sort of music she’d like to see in the series. Yes definitely, in fact some tracks were written into the scripts, so were decided before we came on to the projects, and Michaela handpicked a number of the other tracks too – she has excellent taste.
With this being based on a deeply personal, true story, were you lead by Michaela to certain song choices or genres of music?
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