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Why Ben Stiller Ended Severance With Mel Tormé’s ‘Crazy Drug Trip’
The director explains what drew him to some of season two’s key needle drops.
In fact, it deliberately obscures the matter by mashing up televisions, cars, and phones of past technological eras with a futuristic procedure that can separate a person’s home and work life. “And, for me, I just wanted to use a Stone Roses song because I thought the lyrics were interesting.” “Love Spreads,” from 1994, may be a personal reference point for Stiller and Harmony Cobel alike, but it still won’t clue you in to the show’s time period — nor will the rest of the second season’s playfully reverent needle drops, which defy both genre and decade. A random sampling includes the Alan Parsons Project, Billie Holiday, and Canadian legend Gordon Lightfoot, choices mostly sourced from the Spotify playlist Stiller constantly updates with songs that he feels are Severance- worthy.
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