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Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.

I'm Sam Sanders, and my guest today is actress and writer, Michaela Cole.

Her most recent show is called I May Destroy You.

She wrote it, she stars in it, she co-directed it, and it's one of the best-reviewed shows

of the last year.

But for some time now, I have had a burning question about the first episode of that show.

I was playing this morning on my run.

Again, ready to talk to you.

This song, It's Gonna Rain by Revin Milton Brunson.

And I first heard this song in the premiere of I May Destroy You, and it stuck with me

because it was a song in one of the eerie scenes I think I've ever seen in Modern Television.

This show starts out, your character, her drink has been drugged in a bar, and she's

stumbling through the bar about to collapse and then be, you know, whisked away by some

really bad dudes.

And you expect to hear some techno or some dance music or some loud club tracks.

And you hear this gospel song.

So I wrote, and as I wrote, that is the song that was written into the script.

So it's a warning and it's saying, come on in because it's gonna rain.

But also it sounds so, there's something joyful and it's just totally putting against

club life, isn't it?

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