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The Challengers Score Should Be Played at the Club
The movie feels like when your friend tries to say something on a dance floor. Does it matter what they said? No, we’re just out here dancing.
Drawing influences from French electro and hard techno, the two have crafted a score full of musical flourishes that intensify and clarify what makes Challengers such a ride. While there are a number of scenes in Challengers that lack scoring, a pulsing beeping and booping is ever-present during the height of actual tennis playing, balls whacking and thudding their way across the screen along to a beat. There’s a faint sense of recognition there: Not unlike the music of Gesaffelstein — a French producer who has worked with artists like Pharrell Williams and The Weeknd — the Challengers score blends seamlessly into the electro-infused pop you’d hear out on a Saturday as well as in the Uber you take home after.
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