Down the Wormhole 6
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This week: A bad Tik-Tok, a great email, and a big a-ha moment.
The music of Babygirl. Some thoughts, no spoilers: I thought the INXS song was Blue Nile. / “Father Figure” by George Michael is an all-timer, sounded huge during a montage sex scene but it felt misused—who is the father figure? / The rave scene was stupid and funny and the song they played felt like a parody of what would be played at a night like that more than what actually would be played at a night like that. / I loved the main theme, with the heavy panting, “Wolves,” which my wife and I thought sounded quite a bit like the “White Lotus” theme. Turns out they were made by the same guy, Cristobal Tapia de Veer. He’s got a thing; it works.
Music from the Cloisters. I ran into two friends at a coffee shop when they were comparing their Spotify Wrapped. His top artists were Taylor Swift and Arthur Russell. Pretty standard dude-living-in-Brooklyn stuff. Hers were all choral artists, a full slate of Renaissance vocal music.