![]() ![]() One might think that the version of the “Sweetwater” theme we hear as Caleb and Maeve walk down Main Street is just “the jazz version” of the track, but Djawadi says that it’s a little more complex than that. Meanwhile, in Temperance, Westworld makes good on the promise of last week’s episode, infusing the 1920s Chicago bootlegger scene into classic Delos narratives, with a new cast and (more importantly for our purposes here) a new spin on the original soundtrack. It’s always something that’s nice with a show that runs for several seasons, because you can kind of take your time - you don’t need to establish all the themes right away.” “It’s interesting how sometimes characters get themes and sometimes they don’t - sometimes we add them later. ![]() “It was just nice seeing that character again, and then recalling that music from that time,” he says, noting that unlike other music for the show, Akecheta’s themes are “very organic,” without the use of much synth instrumentation.Īs Djawadi adds, Akecheta had music directly connected to his character because of his Season 2 spotlight, but it’s not always a given that a character will have a pre-established theme (as seen last week, with the introduction of a musical motif for Clementine). (as Stubbs puts it) “Robot Heaven,” learning from a consciousness personified by Akecheta (Zahn McClarnon) about the chaos to come that only Bernard may be able to stop.ĭjawadi says that much of the music featured in the opening sequence directly calls back to the show’s previous excursions to the Sublime, not to mention the themes created for Akecheta himself in the Season 2 episode “Kiksuya,” which heavily featured the character. ("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.Temperance isn’t the only exotic location visited in “Années Folles,” as the episode opens with Bernard inside the Sublime, a.k.a. ![]() 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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