There are lots of famous songs with sun in the title including the classic Beatles, “Here Comes the Sun” and Soundgarden’s “Blackhole Sun.” This week Radio.com checked in with True Blood music supervisor Gary Calamar about the challenges of finding a song that fit, could be secured, and how he finally settled on The Naked and Famous track.
“We tried many ‘sun’ songs from Gene Autry to The Sex Pistols, from the Beatles to Soundgarden.”
But the bigger and more iconic the song, it can be more expensive and harder to obtain the rights to. Cable period drama Mad Men scored the rights to a Beatles song this year. It still remains an exception, not the rule.
That’s not to say Calamar didn’t have plenty of resources at hand. In the previous two seasons True Blood had Iggy Pop and Elvis Costello record Season of the Witch and the Authority Song respectively. Given that the show’s most famous song “Bad Things” was written by the lesser known Jace Everett, Calamar wanted to go that route. The result was The Naked and Famous’ The Sun:
“At the end of the day — or as the sun went down — we all loved the vibe, atmosphere and lyrics of the song. Plus They were a little easier to license than the Beatles. When the producers heard ‘The Sun,’ it was a slam dunk. It was unavoidable, as the lyric says.”
The lines include:
“Here it comes/The unavoidable sun/Where’s my head?/And what the hell have I done?”
What did you think of the song? Sound off in the comments below!
Source: Radio.com- “‘True Blood’ Music Recap: Here Comes ‘The Sun’ – And The Naked And Famous”
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