score, wrote it only makes sense. If you didn’t know her tracks were originals, you’d think you were listening to ’90s songs you hadn’t yet heard, but wanted to keep playing.
The process of figuring out which scenes need original music, needle drops, or no music at all can sometimes be tricky, but with DuVall and Kittrell, it was a breeze. They had mapped out a pretty clear path from the beginning. “It was like, yes, of course the Breeders are right there,” Waronker says, “or itto be score right here—it can’t be a song because it’s internal dialogue or an internal moment for one of them, and we had to define them.
When composing, Waronker was inspired by bands like Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Throwing Muses, and Lush, all of them ’90s-era bands she’s a fan of herself, and groups that fit the mood she was going for. “It was fun because scoring is so specific to whatever you’re working on, and oftentimes you don’t get to dig into something that you’re super inspired by. And that’s okay too, I love that challenge,” Waronker says.
And because Tegan and Sara are musicians, and this whole show is about their music and their journey tomusicians, there was an added imperative to get it right. “It was really important to have the score have its own identity from that music [Tegan and Sara’s early songs], and the music inspiring them, and the music surrounding them,” Waronker says.notably doesn’t have a theme song. Which, given all the buzz of the, might have been a surprise or even a disappointment to fans.