hi mike! since finishing bly "i shall believe" by sheryl crow has been on heavy rotation in my music and it always brings me right back to seeing that breathtaking closing frame for the first time. i was wondering if you could share any reasoning, if any, there was for that being the closing music for the show? thanks!
I first heard "I Shall Believe" in a movie called The Pallbearer in 1996. I became low-key obsessed with the song that whole year. It was a song that hid fathoms under its deceptive simplicity, and it always cast a mournful, romantic spell on me.
For a long time, I knew I wanted to use it in something, but didn't have the right kind of story - I needed a story that ached a certain way.
I started thinking of it for Bly while I was writing the pilot. We didn't have much of a budget for needle drops, so I was initially encouraged to leave my options open. With Hill House I'd insisted on using "Heavenly Day" and "If I Go I'm Goin'" before the scripts for those episodes were even finished, but in this case the producers wanted to wait and see how the show developed. Bly was a love story, and a love story walks a razor's edge when it comes to tone.
The first cut of the finale used a different song, something much more generic, and I knew it was going in the wrong direction. I put "I Shall Believe" in, and recut the sequence to the structure of the song, and suddenly everything worked. I told them that we absolutely had to that song, and everyone agreed when they saw the cut.
I love that song.
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SLOW DOWN YOU’RE GONNA CRASH BABY YOU WERE SCREAMING ITS A BLAST BLAST BLAST LOOK OUT YOU GOT YOUR BLINDERS ON EVERYBODY’S LOOKING FOR A WAY TO GET REAL GONE
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Classic movie stars + music
01 - 'Clara Bow', by Taylor Swift;
02 - 'Bette Davis Eyes', by Kim Carnes;
03 - 'John Wayne', by Lady Gaga;
04 - 'Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle', by Nirvana;
05 - 'Steve McQueen', by Sheryl Crow;
06 - 'Dorothy Dandridge Eyes', by Janelle Monáe feat. Esperanza Spalding;
07 - 'James Dean', by Eagles;
08 - 'Mabel Normand', by Stevie Nicks;
09 - 'Rock Hudson, by Kelly Clarkson;
10 - 'Vincent Price', by Deep Purple
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Fiona Apple in Spin magazine, 1997
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ooh wee ooo
Listen to both songs before voting, and define "better" any way you wish!
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