I had actually started with the company on the backend, in the accounting department. Because he’s obviously got such an amazing ear, they just sort of said, “Hey, do you want to music supervise my film?” That’s how the supervision work began. Chris has always had this extreme love for film and he had some director friends and producer friends. We’ve got Mitski, Bon Iver, Moses Sumney, Phoebe Bridgers, just to name a few of the amazing artists on the three labels.Ĭhris and I had come from the indie music world. We get to work with a lot of cool artists. We’ve also got a music publishing company called Secretly Publishing. Secretly consists of three record labels: Secretly Canadian, Jagjaguwar, and Dead Oceans. It’s co-founded by Chris Swanson, who’s my co–music supervisor on all projects. I started working at the label called Secretly Group about 10 years ago. I don’t know much about music supervision, so I’d like to start pretty generally. We talked about choosing music for the show, budgeting for hits, and what to do when a musician passes. Berndt was available for an interview about her work on the show. The music fit the tastes of the white suburban high school kids I grew up knowing, but it also went off into the sly or the skeptical - the “Boyfriend” cue is so bold! (By the finale, I liked A Teacher a little bit more, but I agree with Emily VanDerWerff’s idea that it might be better binged, rather than dragged out across weeks and weeks.) Music supervisors Chris Swanson and Jessica Berndt, who’ve worked on Wild Wild Country and Easy, were responsible for many of the show’s needle drops director Hannah Fidell had written many others into the script. (I wrote about this specific needle drop, and how much I appreciated it, in the inaugural Friday Post.)Īfter I finished the series, I was curious about the minds who outfitted this indie show with “Rack City” and Shania Twain. She saw her student as a lover we see him, rightly, as a victim of grooming and abuse. The opening sirens of Justin Bieber’s “Boyfriend” lead into the end credits: “If I was your boyfriend I’d never let you go…” There was something thrilling about that song in that scene: how teenage it was, but also how it betrayed the teacher character’s secret inner monologue. When high school senior Eric (Nick Robinson) acts on his feelings for an overly friendly, Madewell-y teacher (Kate Mara), the camera lingers on her face for a moment, as she rubs her just-kissed lips in shock. The music was good and surprising and clearly selected with a lot of intention. Episode one played Frank Ocean and Tyga a school dance cued up Usher’s “Climax.” Part of it was the familiarity, the way those same songs were on the radio during my own coming of age part of it was just me being nosy. Though I found A Teacher radically bland, I was obsessed with its music. The phrases “#ItDoesntLookGoodWhen,” “#PreguntasQueNoSePreguntan” (Spanish for “they ask questions that shouldn't be asked”) and “CaNdyPBB4 PairForCokeHappiness” are in third, fifth and tenth places.Nick Robinson and Kate Mara in A Teacher. The name of British politician “Francis Maude” is in fourth place and “No 10” Downing Street (the Local of British Prime Minister David Cameron) is in eighth place. Turkish-speaking Twitterers are listing the “Süper Final” (the Turkish Super Cup football match) play-off dates for 2012. Sri Lankan cricket player Thilan “Samaraweera” has been run out at the non-striking end during day one of the 1st Test match against England, say Twitter users.
Justin Bieber fans are also trending the word “#Swaggie” after their idol posted it along with a link to the iTunes download page for “Boyfriend.”įilm director James Cameron has returned to the surface after successfully reaching the deepest part of the ocean in a solo submarine. This is “one of the best nights ever,” tweeted Justin Bieber, “ work hard on my music. ITS PERFECT! JUST OMG!!!!!!!!” and it “is the greatest song in the world,” say fans who add that it’s “he only reason why Monday is amazing.” Tweeps have been counting down the minutes on Twitter with the Canadian pop star until the song arrived on iTunes and are now posting their microreviews on of the song on Twitter.
Microbloggers are celebrating the release of the latest single from Justin Bieber, “Boyfriend.”