Working: How Music Supervisors for Film and TV Source the Perfect Songs

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🗓️ 12 June 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week, host Isaac Butler talks to music supervisors Bruce Gilbert and Lauren Mikus, whose most recent projects include the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building and the the multidimensional action movie Everything Everywhere All at Once. After the interview, Isaac and co-host June Thomas talk about music choices in film and TV and discuss whether it’s better to pick well-known hits or more obscure deep cuts. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Bruce and Lauren talk about the taste-making aspect of their job. Then they explain their process for creating a uniquely New York sound for Only Murders in the Building. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Big Mood, Little Mood—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Tom Sharpling here, the host of the Best Show, and if you've never heard of the
0:06.0	Best Show before, everything you need to know is right there in the title.
0:10.4	Each week we put on the Best Live podcast you're ever going to hear featuring live callers,
0:15.6	celebrity guests, music, plenty of surprises, who knows what's going to happen last month
0:21.7	alone we were joined by Conan O'Brien, Patricia Arquette, Jeff Tweety from Wilco, Nathan
0:27.8	Field, or Sinan Archives, John Oliver, the list goes on and on.
0:32.2	So what are you waiting for?
0:33.7	Join us live every Tuesday night on Twitch at 6 p.m. Pacific Time and find us the next day
0:39.3	on the Forever Dog podcast network and wherever you find podcasts.
0:58.8	I used to feel like there was a perfect song for every scene and I would worry that
1:02.6	like if I didn't find it somebody else would and so I had to kind of relax and just know
1:10.0	that like you only know what you know if you haven't heard it yet buddy, it's okay.
1:18.8	Welcome back to Working, I'm your host June Thomas and I'm your other host, Isaac Butler.
1:24.4	Isaac, as always, it's fabulous to share a Zoom room with you.
1:29.7	Tell me whose voices did we hear at the top of the show.
1:32.8	June is always good to record with you and I'm sure you really enjoyed watching me
1:36.5	yon in our Zoom call two seconds go but anyway the voices we heard this week are Bruce
1:42.5	Gilbert and Lauren Micas and what do they do?
1:46.5	They are music supervisors most recently of two wonderful projects, only murders in
1:52.4	the building and everything everywhere all at once.
1:56.6	Good grief.
1:57.6	I know right?
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