Pet Shop Boys have been getting a lot of songs in TV and film lately
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Pet Shop Boys have been getting a lot of songs in TV and film lately
So as everyone already knows they've had a song in Saltburn and All Of Us Strangers. I was watching the TV show Industry and Opportunities was played at the end of season 3 episode one. They were also in the Netflix show The Decameron in episode 3 with What Have I Done To Deserve This?
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Re: Pet Shop Boys have been getting a lot of songs in TV and film lately
Here's an article about the music being used in the TV show Industry. I haven't seen the show and I guess there are spoilers in the text below.
How the Pet Shop Boys became the soundtrack to 'Industry' Season 3
One of the many great joys of Industry Season 3 is the soundtrack. The series dips not once but twice into the discography of the Pet Shop Boys, with both needle drops delivering standout musical moments.
The first instance comes at the end of episode 1, with "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" playfully undercutting Lumi's disastrous IPO. (Lumi did not, in fact, make lots of money.) Then, in episode 6, the Pet Shop Boys' cover of "Always on My Mind" accompanies a tender flashback to Harper Stern (Myha'la) helping Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela) handle the complicated aftermath of her father Charles' (Adam Levy) death.
The desire for Industry to include a double whammy of Pet Shop Boys — triple, if you count episode 6's use of Electronic's "Getting Away With It," featuring vocals from Neil Tennant and a bass line performed by Chris Lowe — began with the duo's 2022 Glastonbury set. Industry creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay were in attendance, along with Industry music supervisor Ollie White.
"They did the most amazing headline set on one of the smaller stages there. It was so explosive," White told Mashable. "We were like, 'They've still got it. They're still relevant. We can get them on Industry. Let's do it.'"
The last sequence of episode 6 is already a knockout, as we transition from Harper and Yasmin's fight to a flashback of one of their closest moments. But the music choices here elevate it even further, with Down calling them "the best six minutes of music the show has done." "Getting Away With It" — a nod to Yasmin and Harper covering up Charles' death — kicks in right as Yasmin slaps Harper, punctuating a painful beat with a bit of a wry twist. The song accompanies us as we transition to the flashback on Charles' yacht, where it plays as part of a diegetic DJ set onboard the boat.
Most of the yacht scenes forgo Micay's score completely, instead using a set mixed by White and Industry music editor Dan Elms in order to evoke the atmosphere of nonstop partying onboard. When you hear "Getting Away With It" fading into "Always on My Mind," you get the exact same rush of excitement you'd feel if a DJ played a song you really loved at a party. "That's right," Industry seems to be saying, "you're getting even more Pet Shop Boys goodness!"
On top of just being a great song — Kay described it as a "desert island disc" of his — "Always on My Mind" serves as the perfect wrap-up to an episode that puts Yasmin through the ringer.
"'Always on My Mind' is a song about not expressing your love when you could have expressed it, and that person being gone," Kay told Mashable. "Obviously, Yasmin has a very fraught relationship with her dad, and he's a monster. But one of the disgusting ironies and true human ironies is that she also loves him, and he's dead."
Overall, though, Industry's use of "Always on My Mind" really comes back to the push and pull between Harper and Yasmin. These are two women who have helped one another through some of the worst times in their lives, but who have also used each other and cut each other to pieces time and time again. Episode 6 sees them at their closest and most distant, and "Always on My Mind" captures both the love they once had for each other and the fact that they may never express that love again.
"It's an elegy for Yasmin's friendship with Harper," Kay said. "And after that argument, it all goes to a pretty irrevocable place."
https://mashable.com/article/industry-s ... -shop-boys
How the Pet Shop Boys became the soundtrack to 'Industry' Season 3
One of the many great joys of Industry Season 3 is the soundtrack. The series dips not once but twice into the discography of the Pet Shop Boys, with both needle drops delivering standout musical moments.
The first instance comes at the end of episode 1, with "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" playfully undercutting Lumi's disastrous IPO. (Lumi did not, in fact, make lots of money.) Then, in episode 6, the Pet Shop Boys' cover of "Always on My Mind" accompanies a tender flashback to Harper Stern (Myha'la) helping Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela) handle the complicated aftermath of her father Charles' (Adam Levy) death.
The desire for Industry to include a double whammy of Pet Shop Boys — triple, if you count episode 6's use of Electronic's "Getting Away With It," featuring vocals from Neil Tennant and a bass line performed by Chris Lowe — began with the duo's 2022 Glastonbury set. Industry creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay were in attendance, along with Industry music supervisor Ollie White.
"They did the most amazing headline set on one of the smaller stages there. It was so explosive," White told Mashable. "We were like, 'They've still got it. They're still relevant. We can get them on Industry. Let's do it.'"
The last sequence of episode 6 is already a knockout, as we transition from Harper and Yasmin's fight to a flashback of one of their closest moments. But the music choices here elevate it even further, with Down calling them "the best six minutes of music the show has done." "Getting Away With It" — a nod to Yasmin and Harper covering up Charles' death — kicks in right as Yasmin slaps Harper, punctuating a painful beat with a bit of a wry twist. The song accompanies us as we transition to the flashback on Charles' yacht, where it plays as part of a diegetic DJ set onboard the boat.
Most of the yacht scenes forgo Micay's score completely, instead using a set mixed by White and Industry music editor Dan Elms in order to evoke the atmosphere of nonstop partying onboard. When you hear "Getting Away With It" fading into "Always on My Mind," you get the exact same rush of excitement you'd feel if a DJ played a song you really loved at a party. "That's right," Industry seems to be saying, "you're getting even more Pet Shop Boys goodness!"
On top of just being a great song — Kay described it as a "desert island disc" of his — "Always on My Mind" serves as the perfect wrap-up to an episode that puts Yasmin through the ringer.
"'Always on My Mind' is a song about not expressing your love when you could have expressed it, and that person being gone," Kay told Mashable. "Obviously, Yasmin has a very fraught relationship with her dad, and he's a monster. But one of the disgusting ironies and true human ironies is that she also loves him, and he's dead."
Overall, though, Industry's use of "Always on My Mind" really comes back to the push and pull between Harper and Yasmin. These are two women who have helped one another through some of the worst times in their lives, but who have also used each other and cut each other to pieces time and time again. Episode 6 sees them at their closest and most distant, and "Always on My Mind" captures both the love they once had for each other and the fact that they may never express that love again.
"It's an elegy for Yasmin's friendship with Harper," Kay said. "And after that argument, it all goes to a pretty irrevocable place."
https://mashable.com/article/industry-s ... -shop-boys
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Suburban_Boy
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Re: Pet Shop Boys have been getting a lot of songs in TV and film lately
I think I would take exception with "They did the most amazing headline set on one of the smaller stages there." The Other Stage is still a pretty big deal isn't it?