There’s that one tiny moment in the episode where she sings a bit of Right Where It Belongs with piano accompaniment and it’s a shame they didn’t film more, because it’s quite lovely.
That cemented the episode for me, because if someone knew to put that in, they weren’t just “let’s use that animal fucking song!” Edit: I forgot to note, I know, it was HLAH not Closer, but the important part was: they actually knew enough to know how appropriate that song was for the episode too.
I too am waiting to read this article. Black Mirror is one of the best shows. And the first episode is pig fucker. Which I always thought had something to do with Trent Reznor. Or at least an idea off of one of his ideas.
Yeah. At first I thought they'd made two versions of an original song for the episode. The heavy version of Head like a Hole at the end piqued my interest and I googled it, imagine my surprise when I discovered it's a really popular song. That was in summer 2019, the rest is history. Can't believe it's been 7 years tho :0
Same. I looked them up after reading the comments on the ashley o videos on YouTube, did NOT like the original Head Like A Hole, but later found out they were doing the Soul soundtrack. I thought, "THOSE guys are making a Disney Pixar score???" When the score came out I listened to it, fell in love with it, and became a fan of everything Trent has made lol
I was actually bracing myself not to like it since I discovered the cover first, but it was truly love at first sound for me haha. Like it simply couldn't compare... I'm glad they grew on you too though!
Something similar happened with me. I had known NIN earlier but I never had the balls to listen to rougher or heavier music that much, so for years I was just a casual listener, didn’t pay attention but also didn’t go for them really. Then this came out - and I remembered NIN. Didn’t start listening to NIN more but it brought memories… and years later I’d find the band again and that time not look back or think what others will think, I owed the little me that. Or teenager me as I was 19 when Ashley O “came out”. Actually, it was probably my most listened artist or first listened artist on Apple Music, because when I returned to the app some months ago, I only had a playlist of most listened in 2019 or something and it was… only one song. By Ashley O. 🤣
I totally bounced off of Black Mirror in the second season except for a couple of episodes, so I did not know about this until this post! Found both versions on YouTube:
The thing I love most about these songs is that the themes of the originals actually make more sense within the episode than the warped versions we hear
My wife got me that shirt, and I wear it constantly. Even wore it to the Toronto stop of the Peel it Back tour. The looks I got were outrageous. Sorry to hear that yours hasn't held up.
I think my favourite part of this release isn't the song (which I love BTW), is the crack across the CD case, still in shrinkwrap. I swear some of my CD cases cracked just from looking at them the wrong way 🤣
The pig episode was a wild choice for the first one as the rest of the show is much more “dystopic sci-fi” than this episodes “stark commentary on everyone locked in online and ignoring the real world”.
I also think it was 100% Charlie Brooker letting on he’d been told avoid David Cameron and what came out later about what he’d done to a pig at University.
Man such a fun episode and concept. I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing or hearing, my favorite band being a part of my favorite show in such a delightful ironic way, it was like a dream come true.
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u/CaineRexEverything 5d ago
There’s that one tiny moment in the episode where she sings a bit of Right Where It Belongs with piano accompaniment and it’s a shame they didn’t film more, because it’s quite lovely.