{"id":80233,"date":"2022-12-06T22:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T22:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/love-is-blinds-songs-are-too-perfect-heres-the-producers-secret-polygon\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T22:34:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T22:34:17","slug":"love-is-blinds-songs-are-too-perfect-heres-the-producers-secret-polygon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/love-is-blinds-songs-are-too-perfect-heres-the-producers-secret-polygon\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Is Blind\u2019s songs are too perfect \u2014 here\u2019s the producers\u2019 secret – Polygon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s not through locking musicians in a basement somewhere
Despite what you may think, Netflix\u2019s Love Is Blind<\/em><\/a> doesn\u2019t craft entire songs to fit one line of dialogue \u2014 though sometimes, the matchup between words and lyrics is a little uncanny. And viewers who question that, who think the music is a little bit too <\/em>on the nose? Well, music supervisor Jon Ernst has seen your tweets. (Which is rough; some of them are not that nice<\/a>.)
\u201cI\u2019ve been accused of locking songwriters and musicians and vocalists in my studio and forcing them to write a song that matches the exact words, but that\u2019s not how it works,\u201d Ernst laughs. So what happens when the two line up perfectly? \u201cLet\u2019s call it television magic.\u201d
He has a good sense of humor about the online cracks, because it means people are paying attention. After all, the reality genre thrives on that; all talk is good talk. As one viewer tweeted, \u201cThey have to know it\u2019s over the top but it also is what keeps me coming back.\u201d
So, the question is: If it\u2019s not this intensely word-specific process, how do<\/em> songs get selected for Love Is Blind<\/em>? The answer is Ernst, who has been with the show since its very first season, and as its sole music supervisor, is responsible for sourcing music long before he knows the scene it\u2019ll fit in. It\u2019s a position he\u2019s held since the early aughts, so he knows how important music can be to the genre \u2014 and what music in particular works.
\u201c[The Love Is Blind<\/em> production team] started becoming, in these three seasons, a very well-oiled machine. We kind of know what the story points are going to be \u2014 at least, we can predict,\u201d Ernst said. \u201cAnd so what I like to do is supply the editors and producers with a whole pot of gold: music that we know they can use. And then I categorize those in separate bins per the types of mood and genres that we might be looking for so it helps streamline that for the editors and the producers.\u201d
The music comes from, generally, one of two places: a music library or a \u201ctrusted source,\u201d which is what Ernst calls musicians he often looks to for submissions. These \u201ctrusted sources\u201d are \u201cpeople that I know are going to get me the best of the best music. When I give them my briefs, I know that they\u2019re going to send me stuff that\u2019s actually going to work according to what my directions are.\u201d He added that he depends on them to help him find \u201cthe best music for the show.\u201d
In the current season, he said the split between the library (which entails a wide-ranging bucket of existing music) and known musicians (he\u2019ll send them briefs of what sort of music he\u2019s looking for) is about 50-50. Season 1 relied heavily on music libraries, as the success of the show was uncertain \u2014 there were budget considerations in play. As they\u2019re made for large databases in the hope that someone picks them up, these songs are often very direct in their lyrics, fairly dramatic in one direction, and very easily applicable to a number of situations.
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Love Is Blind<\/em> is quite kind to its music \u2014 a certain song could play for as long as a minute or two, which Ernst said is incredibly uncommon on shows, where snippets or short transitions are favored. That means more exposure for a musician. As a result, he said, \u201ceven record labels are starting to come knocking on our door here and there for exposure for some of their bands as well.\u201d He cited season 3\u2019s final episode, which features Coldplay\u2019s \u201cBiutyful,\u201d as well as musician Forest Blakk, whose songs are frequently featured.
Of course, that\u2019s the music sourcing, where Ernst is the \u201cgatekeeper.\u201d When it comes to placing any of those songs in an episode, it\u2019s a collaborative effort; show creator Chris Coelen \u2014 \u201cHe\u2019s got amazing taste in music,\u201d Ernst said \u2014 often makes the final decision. And often, song placement is a bit of a race \u2014 one where Ernst has hand-selected music based on potential themes, but with little information as to the story itself.
\u201cBecause of the pace we work at, the editors and the producers and the story producers, they\u2019re all in the room, furiously trying to get the cuts out,\u201d Ernst said, and they\u2019ll send him a text asking urgently for a specific sort of music. \u201cThe way they cut reality, they\u2019re cutting [the scene] at the same time [as] the music. So it\u2019s not something very often where I get a chance to see that scene.\u201d
He\u2019s proud, though, that songs on Love Is Blind<\/em> get a long playtime, and that bands (or their labels) are clamoring to be on the show. Compared to a TV sitcom, where there may be five songs or scores used in an episode, Ernst said, an episode of reality TV uses maybe 20 to 25 songs. And even within those, he\u2019ll take a song and use its instrumental version throughout a scene, so when the full song kicks in, the emotion\u2019s been swelling in the background.
At the start of the reality TV boom \u2014 think 2003 \u2014 Ernst was composing for various shows in the MTV universe, including The Hills<\/em> predecessor Laguna Beach<\/em>. \u201cThose were the early days; reality television was still kind of trying to find its way with music. And I think when they hired me as the composer on that show, they quickly realized that they needed songs more than they needed a score,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen The Hills<\/em> came around, that obviously became a huge juggernaut for exposing music to the world.\u201d
And he knew earlier shows had proven the importance of soundtracks, but after Love Is Blind<\/em>\u2019s first season, he was surprised by the volume of emails, Facebook messages, and Twitter and Instagram DMs he received; people were asking him where certain songs came from. For that season, which used libraries, there was less he could tell them \u2014 some of the music wasn\u2019t publicly available or from a \u201creal artist.\u201d
\u201cLuckily, when we all kind of realized what the music was doing for the viewers, we were able to \u2014 in season 2 \u2014 upgrade the music and go out to some people and spend a little bit more money and get some real artists that actually had songs up on iTunes and their own labels,\u201d he said.
\u201cI think that\u2019s been the most exciting part of working on Love Is Blind<\/em>: seeing that the music has taken on a life of its own, almost like it\u2019s a character on its own. As a music supervisor, like I said, that\u2019s kind of what we live for,\u201d Ernst said. \u201cWe live for people actually paying attention and caring about the music.\u201d
Even if that means viewers who are certain the songs are engineered to fit in the scenes or popped out by an advanced AI or written by Coldplay, locked in a studio. \u201cTo be honest, there\u2019s only so many ways to say the same thing, whether it\u2019s a lyric or what our cast is saying on camera, so sometimes it just matches up,\u201d Ernst said. \u201cAnd if we happen to find it and it works: Why not?\u201d
All three seasons of <\/small>Love Is Blind<\/em><\/small> are now streaming on Netflix.<\/small>
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