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The Composer Behind the Globes’ Best Bit Was Already in Bed


Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig “just brought in this chaos and it was actually beautiful.”

Jo Koy ’s hosting gig may have been an out-of-the-gate failure, but at least the Golden Globes had Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell. Soon, they were wiggling around the stage, and the room was in stitches — even the usually stoic Ben Affleck chuckled while his wife, Jennifer Lopez, did a shoulder shimmy next to him. The song in question is a piece of royalty-free music called “Fluffing a Duck.” It’s by Kevin MacLeod, a composer who’s a bit of a legend in the space — his song “Monkeys Spinning Monkeys” recently became a TikTok hit, and he was even the subject of a 2020 documentary, Royalty Free.

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