I'm not going to lie.

Greta Gerwig is one of my favourite actors, so all objectivity has gone out of the window during this week's

episode of Soundtracking, the film music podcast in partnership with the EEBaptors.

Now, in fairness, everyone seems to agree her directorial debut, Lady Bird, which she also wrote

is a triumph.

Starring Sersha Ronan, Laurie Metcalf and Timothy Shalime.

It charts the turbulent relationship of the eponymous teenager and her mother,

with the narrative by turns irreverent, hilarious, brutally honest and deeply moving.

The score is provided by John Bryan, who has the uncanny ability to blend

traditional orchestration with a tone that's modern and offbeat.

It's his title credits you can hear playing now,

with plenty more of his work to come

throughout the course of the conversation.

The soundtrack, meanwhile, is an absolute gem featuring the likes of the monkeys John Kale Justin Timberlake and real big fish.

While it would have been tempting to include super cool records for one of a better expression,

Greta instead went for songs that her characters

would have been listening to at the turn of the millennium.

There's no better example of that than Crash Into Me,

the lyrically creepy pop ditty by the Dave Matthews band,

which features prominently in the film.

Greta, welcome to soundtracking.

Oh, thank you so much.

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