(The editor’s note: The following article contains spoilers on season 3, section 4 of “The traitors. “)
At the end of section 4 of “Traitors” season 3Bob The Drag Queen is banished in a coup led by the co -traitor Boston Rob. When the three remaining traitors slowly enter the tower, traitor Danielle and Carolyn Rail in confessional against Boston Rob, forces their hands and a song plays. “You have blood on your hands,” the singer sings moody. The lyrics are tailor made as perfect as host Alan Cumming’s checkered costumes – which is completely the point.
The Peacock The reality series often has something on-the-nose texts and now fans expect some jokes. Earlier in that section, when the competitors submitted in the round table and Boston Rob prepared to lead the vote for Bob The Drag Queen, the lyrics ran, “It was a fire that burned in my eyes / and blood running rivers at night / Follow me down in Dalnatten. ”
The “traitors” know that you love it – and yes, they are very intentional with that. “We always feel that it is important to show the audience that we do not take ourselves too seriously,” the executive producer Sam Rees-Jones told IndieWire. “So we like to have fun with lots of parts of the show, including the music.”
The songs usually appear in the last act of a section when the tensions (and the betrayals) are mounted. As soon as the production Lindas, the producers look at the plot lines and stories they will be zeroed in and then bring ideas to bleeding fingers music and feel for music, the two companies they work with music placement with.
“We go to (them) and say,” Look, there is a moment in the traitor tower where trust is in a low time and they question each other, “said Rees-Jones.” “Let’s talk about a topic for a song like can work around it. “For example, there is a track called ‘Friend or Enemy’, right? Which is quite on the nose, for sure, but it is also quite fun. And as I said, I think it is important to have a knowledge of wink. “
It does not always mean hearing texts like “Oh Death, Oh Death, please spare me now” before the traitors kill for that night. Sometimes it means being tilted into comedy of Casting a wide range of reality -TV stars And release them in a castle in Scotland while they caused new and Outland theories. In other words, sometimes it means focusing on Tom Sandoval.
“He has taken a different dynamics, and it’s very fun to play with it,” Rees-Jones said. The “traitors” definitely have fun with Sandoval, whose wide expression of distrust or suspicion punctuates scenes such as punchline -smoothly accompanied by the signature painful notes about the more light -hearted “traitors” points.
“The comic moments (in general), whether intentional or not, are so important to us,” said Rees-Jones. “The music has to add it, and sometimes it can only be a breath without music and just a moment of troubles or ridiculousness or whatever it is. The comic moments are important, but it is important to have structure in the show as well, in terms of music, right? So that when you reach the moments of back stabbing and betrayal, you have had a small palate detergent in between. “
The goal of both the points and the original songs is to easily guide viewers through the darker emotional undercurrents in each section. It can be funny when texts directly respond to the turns in the game, but in the end Rees-Jones want the music to help pull the viewers into the atmosphere and intrigues in “The traitors.”
“We have worked really hard on what the tone in these songs is. I love some lyrics (and a female voice) that are haunting and beautiful. I wouldn’t say it’s so much, “Oh, we’ve gone too far (with the lyrics).” It’s more, “Do they feel right in our world?” And if they do, it’s fun to play it, ”said Rees-Jones.
In other words, “Let the music haunt you / while the” traitors “entertain you.”
“Traitors” premieres new episodes on peacock every Thursday to the season finale on March 6.
