The fourth season of HBO's hit series Girls is underway, and now the show's music supervisor Manish Raval has announced that St. Vincent and Grimes will premire new music on upcoming episodes. In an interview with Billboard, he talked about how he secured the exclusives.
"I said to St. Vincent's people, 'We love Annie and she and Lena are friends. Is there anything laying around?'" he recalled about securing a new song from the experimental indie artist. "They sent us a demo of a song called 'Teenage Talk' that she hadn't released yet and it was amazing. Lena flipped for it."
As for the Grimes track, it was written in collaboration with showrunner Lena Dunham's boyfriend Jack Antonoff of Bleachers and fun. fame.
"Jack is our secret weapon on the show. With him, we have access to so much: he's an amazing songwriter and producer, he has relationships," he said. "A lot of times, we'll just ask, 'What are you working on now? Taylor Swift?' I have no problem tapping into that connection."
The song they wrote together was called "Entropy." After Dunham played a rough mix of the track for Raval he recalled, "We instantly said, 'That's ours, don't give it to anyone. It ends one of my favorite episodes ever -- a big party event leads us on a very melancholy note but there's something so awesomely fun and energetic about this track that really plays against the moment."
Raval also promises songs from Patsy Cline, Chet Baker, and Charles Mingus.
Music Times spoke with Raval last season about how he chooses songs for the show.
"A lot of times, we are pitching to Lena, Jenni [Konner] and the writers and producers well before they even start writing scripts," he said about the process. "Like right now, we are already trying to put music together for Season Four. We just send stuff to them as they are writing so they have music to listen to, and hopefully they can keep some of that stuff in mind."
He said his dream artist to feature on the show would be Neutral Milk Hotel.
"I love "In The Airplane Over The Sea" so much," he told us. "And this is the first show I've ever worked on where I felt we could use something that heavy. But [the band] won't license it. And I respect them for that. I love that."
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