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what’s your favorite music?
I go through phases but currently indie rock
good
Personally I love Imagine Dragons and Coldplay right now, kinda the alt/pop/rock stuff. Cage the elephant I’m getting into. Hozier as well, with his new releases
Currently obsessed with Hans Zimmer's score for the Prince of Egypt: such an emotional and epic experience, with gorgeous songs!
I love John Powell’s orchestral scores, especially the animated ones that he did! His work on Ice Age 2-4, Shrek, Robots, How to Train Your Dragon, etc. don’t get enough recognition for how incredible they are.
How are you gonna talk about big budget musical supervision, and not talk about "I Need A Hero" from the ending sequence of Shrek 2?!
One of the absolute best examples of a pop song being naturally integrated into an animated movie, to the point where the song itself probably became as popular as it did due to that film!
Shrek as a whole does licensed music really well
It's so true, the music supervision in the first two films is top notch
Because Shrek did it so phenomenally well that there’s really nothing left to say
To be fair, 0:50
It do be the thumbnail
Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, and John Hughes movies have some of the most memorable music supervision I've witnessed.
Hughes
Agreed! Scorsese?
Personally I'd add James Gunn to the list
@@abzu2358 I think when James Gunn is left to his own whims, he can get kinda carried away with it. Peacemaker is great example of that, great music choices, but he would play the song in it's entirety to the point it would almost feel like a music video. The Guardians of the Galaxy movies are easily his best use of music.
Also david fincher, damn does he know how to end a film
I wish you pointed out Suicide Squad. So many rights to so many great songs, and barely any of them were used in a "right" way.
You could probably illustrate the entire point of this video just by comparing the soundtrack of 2016's Suicide Squad to the soundtrack of 2021's THE Suicide Squad lol
@@chuckbatmangaming For real! Not to mention the fact that James Gunn made THE Suicide Squad, which more than explains why the music choices were so damn good there
Let’s be real honest here, one of the greatest uses of licensed music in movies is John Powell’s rendition of Get Up Offa That Thing by James Brown in Blue Sky’s *Robots!*
Spitting facts over here
I miss Karsten’s Robots references
And Tom Waits' underground in Robots
@@hiimtravis2841 YES. That track (also re-orchestrated by John Powell) SMACKED hard.
It's like a mix of jazz and funk
Given copyright issues, it is impressive when a music supervisior can balance studio demands with a strong atmosphere.
Good supervisors and lawyers go a long way.
@@tatehildyard5332 wonder how many of them are actually lawyers.
The Marie Antoinette movie from 2006 had some great use of anachronistic music to establish Marie as a rebellious figure who was ahead of her time.
James Gunn is a very VERY good example with great music supervision. The Awesome Mixes are some of the best movie soundtracks, and the fact they sync so clearly with the story, especially ‘The Chain’ in Vol. 2 is awesome. It got me so seek out older music on my own, and the intro to the first movie is still iconic to this day
This was the same for my younger brother. Pretty much all his workout playlists are constructed from eras a good 20-30 years before he was born, and honestly I don't blame him.
One great thing about the rise of the hipster movement in conjunction with internet subcultures is a societal acceptance that old things can still be cool.
Is that including the movies he directed that aren't part of the MCU? Does Slither (2006), Super (2010), and The Suicide Squad (2021) also have great music direction? I haven't seen any of them, just want to know.
@@benjamintillema3572 I have not seen slither or super, actually. But The Suicide Squad was good from what I can remember.
@@benjamintillema3572 The Suicide Squad and ESPECIALLY it's spinoff show Peacemaker share the same kind of great music supervision and diagetic use of songs that the Guardians movies are so known for
And the movie in some cases _improves_ the music. I always wrote of _Ain't no Valley_ as dated and cheesy, cause I only heard snippets of the chorus in ads before. GotG plays the song in full at a cathartic montage and made me appreciate how much there is to the song.
Guardians of the Galaxy had the most iconic music supervision, so much so that it plays a main part in the story. It even plays a part in the titles of the movies (Volume 2 and volume 3). James Gunn is so good with music supervision. Peacemaker and The Suicide Squad also have great music supervision. Just something I wanted to say
This occurred to me when I was watching the recent Lackadaisy pilot. It's about prohibition era booze-running with a violinist as the protagonist, so the soundtrack primarily utilizes era-appropriate violin-lead swing music. And then in a moment of when an action scene unexpectedly ramps up from tense to bombastic, the soundtrack momentarily breaks out of its era, _and goes full swing-dubstep fusion._
It lasts only a handful of seconds before returning to a more traditional tune, and yet the result is stunning. The tonal shift slams into the audience at the exact right moment, hangs in the ears just long enough to be comprehended, then dissipates into a violin solo before its presence can threaten the viewer's immersion.
Had it been directed with any less finesse, a sudden intrusion of DUBSTEP into 1920s era fiction would have been downright disastrous. It's also the sort of experimental flourish that a major studio would never sign off on.
Breaking Bad has the best Music Supervision of all time, from all the cooking scenes to Walter rolling the barrel with Take My True Love By The Hand to ofc Baby Blue and El Paso in Felina. Absolutely the goat
I think The Last of Us: Part II uses 'Take on Me' beautifully in comparison, a perfect example of how popular music can be handled in media.
Not sure if it means anything but my friend and I came to the conclusion that the reason 80s songs were chosen in the Mario movie, especially the “Take on me” during the donkeyKart scene, was to appeal to the nostalgia of Boomers when they played Mario in the 80s when it was most popular. Kind of like how the storyline appeals to babies and all the references & Easter eggs appeal to fans in between.
And you know what else is from the boomers' childhood that was equally iconic and nostalgia-inducing; Mario music.
Glad you mentioned Aftersun. The needle drops in that film are some of the most striking and purposeful I've ever seen.
Under Pressure is forever transformed for me because of that film.
Constant reminder that I need to watch that film and I keep putting it off.
Surf's Up had the greatest music supervision of any movie ever.
!!! yes
I nearly choked from a kind of mad and disheartened laughing fit when I heard _Holding Out for a Hero_ in the Super Mario movie, cause I had heard it in the Tetris movie the week before. The difference is that the Tetris movie utilizes the track so much better cause they change the language of the lyrics to reflect which country they were in; going from Japanese to Russian. That's _earning_ the rights to use a particular track.
Aftersun’s use of Under Pressure was such a gutsy move but it paid off 100 fold. I’ll never hear that song again without getting slightly choked up
I read it was just a temp track for the dance scene but the director and editor thought the lyrics fit.
I liked alot the music in Spiderman Into the Spiderverse, is not just licensed music but is literally Miles playlist, is very well integrated and songs like "Whats up Danger" makes the scene very powerful
As soon as I saw the shrek 2 I need a hero I knew this would be a good video
The most recent example of music supervision and needle drops I absolutely loved was in BEEF. They stuck to a style (mainly 90s alt and grunge more specifically) and it worked so well. The songs fit the tone of the show perfectly imo and it’s a great example of good music supervision. “Mayonaise” by The Smashing Pumpkins playing in the end credits of the finale was what sealed it for me.
Loved the use of Mayonnaise
My friend recently got me the soundtrack of clockwork orange for on vinyl, and it really reminds me how music within a piece can really set the tone and do storytelling shortcuts that other tools can’t. You get the same effect in Mean Girls, which is really the only reason I think it’s more enduring than Clueless.
Ahhh a bit of the old Ludwig Van
Atlanta has some of the best music supervision I've ever seen in a TV series.
I remember watching Cruella one of my biggest critiques was "Craig Gillespie was given too many resources for needledrops and it was pretty excessive. You can tell he had a smaller budget on I, Tonya and it makes the few needle drops much more effective"
Thomas Golubić is a fantastic music supervisor, some of the things he did for better call saul contributed so much to the memorability of the show
And Breaking Bad ofc before Saul. Golubić is the goat
I mean, I think the obvious example here is the use of Holding Out for a Hero in The Super Mario Bros. Movie vs. its use in Shrek 2. There's an entire generation that associates Holding Out for a Hero with that very specific scene in Shrek 2 and it works so well. It's thematically appropriate and just on the nose enough.
For Mario, it would have made much more sense to do something original. A composition of small, but ultimately flawed, riffs on the original Super Mario Bros. theme until it finally reached the point where he (almost) makes it.
I loved the original score in The Super Mario Bros. Movie. I think it succeeded in honoring and playing with the original themes. The pop songs took me out of the world and the scenes. It felt more like Illumination studio interference than anything.
One of the best scenes in the movie is one of the Donkey Kong/Mario side-scrolling scenes with an originals core honoring the SMB theme. It's well-animated and actually takes advantage of its medium while also flowing with the score.
Then you have rare occasions where a last minute change in a movie catapulted a musician to stardom, which was the case of The Exorcist, after William Friedkin rejected the opening score by Lalo Schifrin and used Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells instead, which at the time it had just come out.
bro aftersun's music supervision might be one of the best i've ever seen. tender, losing my religion, and under pressure, all in one place but never once felt overwhelming, because all of it fits right into the scenes wells intended. she DESERVES to get that 3 iconic music. show out to lucy bright the music supervisor, as for her hardwork we got one of the best scenes of 2022
Napoleon Dynamite has one of my favorite soundtracks and i feel it’s incredibly underrated in that sense as well as just being a crazy underrated as a film
You did not need to attack me about my 2015 blurryface era
A scene that always comes to mind when music supervision is discussed is the pool scene in Booksmart where they licensed Slip Away from Perfume Genius. Watching it at home with me dad, he said “Wow this pool scene is going on kind of long” and I mentioned it’s probably because they had to pay somewhere around 3-5 thousand dollars to use the song so they felt like they had to get their money’s worth and use the whole thing.
Yesss I also love how they use Oh Baby by LCD Soundsystem
Some other TV shows/films have great music supervision. Atlanta on FX, HBO’s Insecure, and Spike Lee’s films. They’re all pretty great imo.
One part in Atlanta in particular is when Darius and Alfred are in Amsterdam on a drug trip, and they listen to Stereolab. Even though I heard the song years ago, felt like I heard it for the first time.
Atlanta's music is so good
If they they picked any other song for the altgator scene it just wouldn't feel the same.
Yeah exactly and Donald often writes specific songs into the scripts. My favorite has to be Evil playing at the end of Teddy Perkins. Just amazing. But probably most memorable usage of music in a show bc it’s so varied and always plays a very important role, like you can tell how intentional it is and how they couldn’t use any other song. There’s an interview on getting rights to Evil for Teddy Perkins and how Donald had to pitch the songs importance in the episode to Stevie iirc.
@@elmerglue21 Stevie Wonder (from what I remember) is his favorite artist. He recreated the album artwork “Music of My Mind” for his SNL performance that same year Teddy Perkins released. Goes to show how much art can influence another piece of work.
music supervision is the reason why small movies like project x are so memorable
As someone currently writing a needle drop focused movie, this is extremely helpful stuff! And yes, the Mario movie had some rather out of place needle drops which felt unnecessary given the rich library of Mario music the film could (and did!) pull from
8:20 THE DISS TO TWENTYONE PILOTS😂
the ham-fisted 80s hits in Super Mario were actually painful
I think this would be a great topic to talk about with trailers too. The other night I saw Renfield and there was a trailer for another vampire movie; something called the Voyage of Demeter or something like that, and I just remember being absolutely floored by this incredibly original and fresh approach to Dracula that it was taking, and I was getting really excited too….and then they started playing Bullet With Butterfly Wings by The Smashing Pumpkins and my smile instantly went away. Which honestly has nothing to do with my opinion on the song or the band because I do really like that song and I think they are truly a great band, but that just did not fit at all for a movie set on a boat centuries ago and it kinda killed the momentum for me. Just a thought.
Three in trailers have driven me mad recently: The one you mentioned from Demeter which should have just had the films own score, the use of Biggie in the trailer for Transformers and worst of all the use of Eminem in the Shazam 2 trailer. All completely atonal, nothing to do with the movie, nothing to do with the texture. Just needle drops for the sake of needly drops.
@@fromomelastocarcosa3575 Completely agree. As a big fan of the Notorious BIG and specifically the album Ready To Die, the song Juicy does not fit the tone or vibe for that Transformers movie at all. It's a truly baffling music choice that makes zero sense whatsoever for the movie it's promoting. It's honestly laughable
I’m just imagining the ad exec’s room for that one.
“So what’s this movie about?”
“Well, it’s about a vampire, and-“
“‘Bullet with Butterfly Wings. Okay, next!”
I’m surprised you weren’t big on Euphoria’s music supervision because I think it’s some of the best I’ve ever seen. I was really impressed by a lot of music moments there like the winter formal dance music, Lorde’s Liability still shot in Jules special episode, all the classical music in the season 2 finales, etc etc
Dude the stage-play background reprise lives in my head rent-free.
Megamind has all the hits and used them at the right time. I’m surprised that no one’s mentioning it
Wes Anderson also is great at incorporating music in film
A recent example of bad music supervision that stands out to me is the first Shazam. There's a scene that plays around four seconds of a Twenty One Pilots song, which is just long enough for me to recognize it, ask why it's in there at all and take me of the movie fir a moment.
Yeah that always felt so out of place to me. Like yay i like the song, but what is it doing there?
A Knights Tale is an honorable mention when it comes to music supervision done right. Never has Bowie fitted so well in a medieval world
One thing I'd like to point out is that music can truly enance the power, the emotions, the meaning of a film, but the opposite is very true and inportant as well: by linking particular images, moments to some music you basically boost the feeling of it while listening to it creating a new experience
When you're listening on shuffle and you get a song you discovered thanks to a movie, and it makes you remember it it's one of the coolest feelings
I do think there's an underrating of anachronistic needle drops, one of the absolute legends of needle drops, Sofia Coppola, basically establishes the entire tone of the film, a 1700s period piece, with post punk, alt rock, and electronic music.
Spider Man 3 use of "People get up and drive your funky soul" by James Brown for the Cool Peter scene.... now that's PERFECT music supervision.
No mention of Kavinsky in Drive is crazy, Cliff Martinez really got that soundtrack going places
i leaned over to my buddy during the mario movie and said they should be using donkey Kong country music during that section. hearing that they were going to but changed their minds breaks my heart
Shrek 2’s soundtrack is god-tier
I love the music in Scott pilgrim so much because most of the songs in Scott pilgrim were songs that Bryan Lee O'Malley listened to while creating the comics
YES, plus the scene with Metric's Black Sheep intro is something that just beatifully translates from the comic to the film.
This is so interesting to me. When I write I think of songs that would play in the background of a scene so this job is so cool.
Idk why but some of my favorite music supervision was the use of Send Me On My Way in Ice Age
ive only watched aftersun once and i wasn’t fully invested BUT whenever I hear under pressure, all I can think about is aftersun. so i applaud the music supervisor on aftersun!
I personally thought “Take on Me” was used pretty well in the Mario movie, until I heard Brian Tyler’s track that they passed on. “Drivin’ me Bananas” is such an exciting mix of classic DK Country music, it kills me that they didn’t use it.
Real talk, my dream career is to be a music supervisor. It's the perfect combination for me since I'm a musician, and film is the art form outside of music I'm the most enamored with. That being said, as much fun as I had with the Mario Bros. Movie, MAN there were cues that instantly had me rolling my eyes. Thunderstruck playing during the beginning of the Mario Kart sequence made me audibly say "Really???"
the Blurryface jumpscare wasn’t what i was prepared for
I liked the obligatory succession clip at the end
Using music supervision is one of the things I really want to utilise if I ever get to make movies as I really think they can be used really well depending on the scene
the music at the end of your video is good music supervision
Honestly I think Euphoria has some of the strongest music supervision of any TV Show. Writing and all the supposed controversy surrounding the show aside, so many classic hit songs were cleared to be part of that show from Hold Up by Beyoncé in it's pilot episode to Hit Em Up by Tupac and Party Up by DMX in it's S2 premiere alone which is pretty damn cool.
I know I’m late but I know there’s gonna be good times by Jamie xx and young thug is one of my favourite songs ever and that show bringing it back in a party scene was sick.
We appreciate your effort and hard work as always. God bless you and everyone here.
Two series that don't get nearly the recognition they deserve in terms of music supervision are Letterkenny and Shoresy. The soundtracks are phenomenal, completely making the emotion of the scene pour through you (episodes 5 and 6 of Shoresy specifially).
Karsten your continued originality is lovedddd by your fans, new fave video for sure
i fucking love the music supervision in Trey Edward Shult's Waves
Im so glad you mentioned Baby Driver, my favorite movie, music is so big in movies, a big part why I liked the club fight scene in John Wick because it was so close to the music I hear here in college!
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Unmade by Thom Yorke in Peaky Blinders has got to be one of my favorite song choices in a show. It's one of the most beautifully directed sequences I have ever seen, and it's stuck with me since the day I watched it. That scene alone made me fall in love with filmmaking and creative direction in general. You've illustrated some great points on music as a method of enhancing storytelling in this video. Great work!
I'm listening to the lost in translation soundtrack recently and I really really love the choices there
Shrek and the Sonic movies are my personal favourite examples of music supervision done right. Could ALMOST say the same thing with the animated Mario movie with the exception MAYBE being Take On Me, as Karsten pointed out!
we all know that stuck in the middle with you in reservoir dogs is the best song selection for a movie ever
I was happy that Clerks got a miniscule mention plus this video will make me think harder about music supervision in the movies I am writing (cause I have some smaller songs and bigger ones on playlists that are the soundtracks)
Me seeing *Take On Me* in the Mario Movie: Then something just snapped, something inside of me. I didn't care anymore...
When I was watching the Mario movie and they played Mr Blue Sky, I thought "this song belongs to GoTG", and when they played I Need A Hero, I thought "this song belongs to Shrek 2". I have no clue what that says about music supervision but yeah
Was having a boring day but then karsten uplaods!
amazing video holy shit, this video was easily some of my favourite work of yours
Music in film and tv is overall super overlooked
I could tell by the outro that he was in a good mood and I love it.
I’ve just made a video essay about Trainspottings music and I love it so much
My favorite recent example of music supervision has been in the netflix show BEEF. Not only does each song like perfectly close out it's respective episode, but the fact that a lot of the songs are from the 90s which is around when the main characters grew up, it makes them work from an internal character development perspective as well
I love the Red Rocket shout-out. It's a brilliant film. I also wanna give love to Thomas Golubić's work on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. So many great moments accompanied by so many great tracks from all sorts of genres and from different decades.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW I FEEL LMAO
i was thinking the EXACT same thing and im so happy you feel the same way holy crap lois
Not the blurryface jumpscare 😭😭
One TV show that doesn't get as much credit as it should for music supervision is Breaking Bad. The songs all match the scenes they are played in and enhance the mood.
liked the succession shout out at the end
Mary Ramos spoke at my school earlier this year and it was insanely interesting to hear about her job. Such an important role
this is great! thanks for this
Loved the video! As a music and film lover this type of vídeos are the best, one day i may do music supervising
Under pressure in Aftersun really is the epitome of music supervision
Edit: Oh wow I hadn't gotten to that part yet, really glad you showcased one of my fav movie :)
Sofia Coppola movies are soo good with this, the crazy on you needle drop, the Cool needle drop, ah :)
Disagreed with your Take On Me take. I will never get tired of that infectious bop! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Love the focus on music! It's a subject that often goes overlooked, and it's a subject I have a massive interest in, so I greatly appreciate your thoughts! I think a good recent film soundtrack that goes overlooked is A Ghost Story - the soundtrack essentially describes the subject matter, in a way that some viewers don't realise at the time.
The Worst Person in the World might be the best example of faultless music supervision in recent memory
I wish you would've included Mr. Robot, think it's a really great example of the playlist approach
i got chills when you started to talk abt music supervision and then showed a clip of the great gatsby 💀
"I Need a Hero" and Shrek 2 belong together.
I think that the 80s Needle Drops *kinda* work in the context of the movie. But I would have preferred characters singing original songs like how Jack Black’s Bowser sang “Peaches”.
Jack Black aka the best part of the movie
Right Down the Line is such a banger
Mrs. Doubtfire did a good job with music supervision.
A good soundtrack should compliment a sequence. When the song choice is too much, it takes you out of the scene. Meanwhile, you will barely separate the difference when it works.
The Fargo TV show has some of my favorite music supervision