![]() ![]() ![]() Even if a guest tries to become immersed in this world, the music will undermine it. “You get the great shot of the player spinning up, and then the shot of Teddy in the train starting up again, and you get the theme each time he walks into the saloon.”īut at other times in the loop, the player piano starts to play a reduction of “Black Hole Sun,” or lead into an orchestral version of “Paint It Black,” which underscores the unsettling truth about the saloon and the park - it’s not the Wild West, but a re-creation of it. (Although, in actuality, by Westworld’s showrunner, Jonathan Nolan.) Sometimes, as in the show’s premiere episode, the player piano will repeat the show’s theme, just as the other robotic hosts repeat scripted dialogue on their narrative loops. The player piano itself is a kind of robot, playing songs on demand at preprogrammed moments, presumably controlled by the humans at command central. “It’s a Western theme park, and yet it has robots in it, so why not have modern songs? And that’s a metaphor in itself, wrapped up in the overall theme of the show.” “The show has an anachronistic feel to it,” he explained to Vulture. It might seem both thrilling and a bit disconcerting when you first hear modern music in the Wild West setting, and that’s the point, according to show composer Ramin Djawadi, who also scores the music on Game of Thrones. ("I got my heart right here / I got my scars right here" "Listen, ma, I'll give you all I got / Get me off of this, I need confidence in myself / Listen, ma, I'll give you all of me / Give me all of it, I need all of it to myself" Take you down another level / And get you dancing with the Devil / Take a shot of this / But I'm warning you / I'm on that shit that you can't smell, baby / So, put down your perfume.When you’re watching Westworld, pay special attention to the player piano in the saloon - at key moments, it could kick in a little Soundgarden, Rolling Stones, or even Radiohead for the paranoid androids and human guests inhabiting its world. Playing during a fancy charity event where Bernard and Stubbs are trying to find and kidnap Liam, the public face of Incite that Dolores tried and failed to woo and who Bernard and Stubbs suspect might now be a host (he is not), the song most obviously refers to Dolores's web of manipulation, but a few of its lyrics point to the emotional insecurities any one of the characters have internalized on top of that. One of the most recent songs Westworld has used on the show, 2011's "Wicked Games," like most of The Weeknd's club-ready jams, is about being horny, getting fucked up, and feeling bad, but there are a couple subtextual reasons producers might have chosen it. Thus, behold: this compendium of all the pop cover songs Westworld has used, where it appeared, and (likely) why. But besides all the Radiohead (Hey! They got a real one in the finale: " Codex" from 2011's King of Limbs), it's kind of hard to keep track of every modern song that ever had its day in Sweetwater and beyond. Composed for orchestra, string quartet, and a very real player piano by Ramin Djawadi, who also scores Game of Thrones (if you couldn't tell by comparing the theme songs), most every song has deliberate purpose hiding in the original lyrics that are applicable to a character's development and motivations. ![]() But one thing has remained consistent after all these years: Some of its best nuggets come from its heavy use of incongruous song covers. With every episode packing in timeline jumps and thin metaphors adding fuel to the show’s theories fire, the HBO series has moved a long way away from its initial draw as a sentient robot drama. Westworld has sort of lost the thread in Season 4. ![]()
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