HAZBIN HOTEL SEASON 2 INTERVIEW! Meet The Song Writer Behind It All, Sam Haft!
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🗓️ 23 November 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Sam Haft is the songwriter and composer behind the music of Hazbin Hotel, known for crafting theatrical, emotional songs that elevate the series’ storytelling. He's also one-half of The Living Tombstone, the viral music duo famous for blending electronic, rock, and gaming-inspired sounds that dominate YouTube and streaming platforms. With millions of views and a cult following, Haft’s work stands out for its catchy hooks, dramatic flair, and ability to fuse character-driven narratives with mainstream appeal.
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| 0:00.0 | My brain is full of forbidden knowledge. |
| 0:01.7 | Okay, guys, spoiler. |
| 0:02.7 | Sam's gonna tell us everything now. |
| 0:04.1 | Everything. Okay, what do you got? Okay, here's who dies. I'm kidding. We have finished season three, and we are finishing season four. How long was Has Been on Broadway? One Night? Has Been on Broadway was one night, yeah. Was there conversations of more nights? There have been, maybe, maybe, except for Nifty's song, clean it up, especially when |
| 0:23.0 | Erica goes, I don't know what to call it other than like growly mode. That's a thing that like |
| 0:28.0 | we hear her do in real life. It's so cool seeing you have these two giant things that are so |
| 0:34.3 | different. It's so wild. And it's funny because the longer I do both of them, |
| 0:40.1 | the more they start to cross over in that like now we'll have fans who are showing up to |
| 0:46.0 | Living Tombstone shows who are asking me Helliverse questions. And now like when I do conventions |
| 0:52.6 | these days, I get a lot of people coming up to me asking like, hey, what's the nearest closest show you're doing with TLT? |
| 0:58.4 | And so the worlds are just slowly migrating closer together. |
| 1:03.0 | Do people, are people cosplaying at Livington Stone shows? |
| 1:06.9 | So much. So much. I would say when things started. |
| 1:10.6 | Sam, that's so cool. It's really amazing. |
| 1:12.7 | And what's so fun about it, too, is like that was something I felt like I kind of manifested |
| 1:18.4 | because at the very, very beginning of figuring out and brainstorming what the live Living Tombstone |
| 1:24.2 | show might be, the number one thing I was thinking about was in 2011, I went to |
| 1:29.3 | Lady Gaga's, I think it was the Monster Ball tour or Monsters Ball. And I remember feeling like, |
| 1:37.2 | oh, it's a Lady Gaga show. I really need to like dress up and like glam up and express myself. |
| 1:42.1 | And then I showed up there and it felt like everyone else got the same sort of internal mental memo. |
| 1:48.0 | And so we were all sort of dressed up and very self-expressive. And I remember thinking in 2018 when we were discussing what live TLT might look like, that thinking about the Fame, the monster ball tour and how everyone felt so |
| 2:02.9 | comfortable dressing up and being like how do we create that environment for us and somehow |
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