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On a broader level, the image of the player piano-programmed to spit out emotionally affecting material-was a particularly rich symbol in a show full of rich symbols. Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black works well for a brothel of amnesiacs: “I died a hundred times / You go back to her / I go back to black.” And Radiohead’s catalogue of songs about repression, awakening, and revolution was so fitting that four songs of theirs made the cut (“No Surprises” also shows up in two versions on the soundtrack). They get another one when they figure out-or read about online-the thematic parallels between song and scene.
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The viewer gets an a-ha when they realize what song is being reinterpreted by the score. The music also boosted the show’s appeal as a puzzle, which is to say as a vessel for a-ha moments. The Spectacular Vindication of BTS Lenika Cruz Whenever the melody of a popular song played, it sent audience members back to their own recollections of that song while also serving as a reminder of the trippy time-crossing nature of the show’s setting: Remember, it’s not really the Wild West if people are listening to The Animals.
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The music’s effect on viewers, too, was primal and linked to memory. On a plot level, songs mattered because they influenced the hosts of the titular theme park in particular, Debussy’s “Reverie,” heard throughout the season, was revealed to be hard-coded into the robots’ memory to act as a tranquilizer. Which is similar to how music-as meta as anything else in Westworld-functioned within the show. Heard as an album, it does a nice job-better than many scores-of both holding the listener’s attention and sending them back to specific moments they remember from the source material. Ramin Djawadi’s blend of classical orchestration and electronica in darkly dramatic recurring themes and instrumental pop-music covers deserves a lot of credit for the show’s appeal. The official Westworld score has been released, and it’s worth a listen for anyone curious about exactly how an ambitious but deeply flawed sci-fi philosophy riff became such a big hit for HBO.