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How ‘The Buccaneers’ Used Taylor Swift To Bookend a Defiant, Entirely Female Soundtrack
How AppleTV+s "The Buccaneers" used Taylor Swift songs to booked an entirely female soundtrack.
“The default position with any sort of youth-orientated period show is that it will fight comparisons to ‘Bridgerton,’ which is very strong on classical cover songs of popular tunes and they do that brilliantly, so that obviously was completely off our creative agenda.” Phoebe Bridgers) (Taylor’s Version).” The song, which contemplates a young woman’s fears of not being desirable as she ages, immediately called to mind a scene in the series premiere when two of the girls are introduced into debutante society by being trotted out for men to choose as potential mates. Getting the greenlight from Swift, though, helped lock in his vision for other licensing opportunities for “The Buccaneers.” Brandi Carlile’s “Broken Horses” plays over a particularly romantic (albeit on the nose, Biffa admits) horse-riding scene, while “Christmas” by Darlene Love even finds a place in a holiday episode.
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