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Tune in to a hit reality show these days and you’re likely to hear a trend: songs extolling the empowered, girlboss lifestyle, from artists you’ve probably never heard of. While the reality landscape was once soundtracked by top 40 hits on shows like The Hills, today’s content takes a different approach, relying heavily on music libraries with no-name artists and custom scoring to fill the silence. The reason? Complicated, and expensive, music licensing rights and a growing industry of made-for-reality-tv tracks.
Selling Sunset was among the first to get attention for its music when it debuted on Netflix three years ago with songs that creator Adam Divello knows the internet has joked are all about “work, work, work and sell and high heels and dollar bills and earn-that-money.” Divello, also behind The Hills and Laguna Beach, says “it was a whole different world” scoring those shows,...
Tune in to a hit reality show these days and you’re likely to hear a trend: songs extolling the empowered, girlboss lifestyle, from artists you’ve probably never heard of. While the reality landscape was once soundtracked by top 40 hits on shows like The Hills, today’s content takes a different approach, relying heavily on music libraries with no-name artists and custom scoring to fill the silence. The reason? Complicated, and expensive, music licensing rights and a growing industry of made-for-reality-tv tracks.
Selling Sunset was among the first to get attention for its music when it debuted on Netflix three years ago with songs that creator Adam Divello knows the internet has joked are all about “work, work, work and sell and high heels and dollar bills and earn-that-money.” Divello, also behind The Hills and Laguna Beach, says “it was a whole different world” scoring those shows,...
- 7/18/2022
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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