Interview With "Us" Composer, Michael Abels

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Before 2017, no one in the film composing world had heard of Michael Abels. Then Jordan Peele's "Get Out" was released and suddenly everything changed. Now, with Peele's second film "Us," he has re-teamed with Abels and everyone is fully aware of his work. Receiving acclaim for one of the year's best scores, Abels was kind enough to talk to us about his work on the film, his collaboration with Peele and more! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Will Mavity's interview with the composer for us, Michael Ables.
0:07.6	That's a classic right there.
0:14.0	What is I got five on it mean?
0:17.3	It's about drugs.
0:18.2	It's not about drugs. It's a dope song. Don't do drugs.
0:21.6	Get in rhythm.
0:22.6	There you go.
0:24.6	She goes.
0:25.6	I can't believe how big Dave got them.
0:28.6	Can't believe how big Dave got them.
0:32.6	You hear Gabe got a boat?
0:34.6	Craw, Daddy.
0:35.6	Ha ha!
0:36.6	He's kidding, right? He's not kidding. Hey, I think it's vodka clock. Oh, yeah. Where's Jason? Well, everybody, welcome to yet another episode of the next Best Picture podcast. I'm your host, Will Mavity, and I have with me the composer of us and Get Out, Michael Ables. Michael, how are you? I'm great. Thanks for having me on.
0:57.2	So you just kind of exploded onto the scene almost three years ago now with Get Out. Can you
1:05.5	tell me a little bit about how you entered the world of film composing and how you ended up
1:10.4	working with Jordan? Yeah, so I
1:12.4	had trained to be a composer and I've been a composer my whole life, but had never had much
1:18.5	traction in the film industry. But some of my orchestral pieces have been played in concert music, and a couple of them are on YouTube.
1:32.9	And, you know, not that many people go on to YouTube to listen to concert orchestral music.
1:38.4	So I had, you know, dozens of hits.
1:42.2	But one of them turned out to be a guy named Jordan Peel, who was looking
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