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Streaming: music and musicals appropriate content

Streaming: music and musicals appropriate content

Netflix’s latest hit is “The Playlist”, a Swedish series about the history of Spotify, focusing on its founder, Daniel Ek, a tech genius who managed to surpass the exploits of Napster, eMule and The Pirate Bay, the first Spotify shows. illegal downloads that transformed the 21st century music industry. The series oscillates between the biopic and the origin of this application that circumvented several obstacles until it was approved due to the conflict with copyright. It also offers an overview of the consumption and business of music.

On HBO you can see “Zoe’s extraordinary playlist” whose protagonist has the rare ability to hear people’s thoughts in a musical key, which leads to crazy situations. “Fosse/Verdon” is based on the life of director and choreographer Bob Fosse and one of the greatest dancers of the day, Gwen Verdon, who married, revolutionized Broadway and the musical industry. Like so many stories of artists who went on to glory, their personal lives were marked by emotional instability, trauma and anguish. The series shows the early 70s when Fosse had just failed commercially with “Nights in the City” and was only looking for a way to carry out “Cabaret”, a mission that occupied him until his last days (later he would do “All That Jazz”, where he anticipated his end). Starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams, it’s on Disney Plus.

The Netflix series “Song Exploder” delves into the development of successful songs and shows the creative process of various artists such as Dua Lipa, The Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Natalia Lafourcade, Alicia Keys, Lin-Manuel Miranda, REM and Ty Dolla $ ign. The questions revolve around what inspires them, the instruments they need and the touch of distinction that makes a simple song a hit of reproductions, consecration of artists and sale of tickets to concerts.

“The Get Down”, directed by Baz Luhrman, evokes the golden years of the music industry in New York in the 70s and offers a journey through the youth of the Bronx and the rise of rap. It has the participation of MC Books, an artist from those years who narrates the story in the key of rap. It can be seen on Netflix. In “Turn up Charlie” (Netflix), Idris Elba plays a loser DJ who tries to relaunch his career, while he must take care of the 11-year-old daughter of a friend. It is a comedy with musical touches and humor.

Also on Netflix, “Z4” is a Brazilian series that revolves around a music group manager, José “Zé” Toledo, who, along the lines of “Glee” and before “School of Rock”, resorts to the creation of a new band to show that it is still capable of finding young talents and in the process shine.

In “The Eddy” music and drama converge, with exquisite jazz performances in bars with Paris as a backdrop. It’s an atypical thriller about a jazz club owner who is forced to deal with criminals while fighting to protect his place, his band, and his teenage daughter.

We talk with some references of the local musical.

Marcelo Caballero: “Musical series sometimes underestimate the public or go very adolescent. But there are several to highlight such as ‘Crazy ex girlfriend’, satirical and carefree, ‘Smash’, with a very well written first season but as it did not go well they launched the second with a new air and led to an abrupt and clumsy ending. In the first, the characters had depth, something very necessary for the musical. Although it is believed that it should be light, it is the other way around, as Fosse said, music appears when other languages ​​are not enough. The best example of a good and round series is ´Fosse Verdon´, about the deep love between the two that prevented them from separating, it is intelligent, it is well acted and it has a brilliant book”.

Mela Lenoir: “I worked on ´Go´ on ​​Netflix and they almost always add music to the series, I think they are well produced for that audience. It is aimed at the 8 to 14 year old target, and they are of very good quality. When they are musicals for adults, sometimes to make them work they call famous people as if they were unaware that there are people who are so educated. One feels that the famous person may not sing and dance, so he loses quality. In streaming they can digitally retouch it even in skill. The remake of ‘West Side Story’ if you see it expecting to see the original, you will be disappointed, because it is another proposal. But they chose a worldwide casting with very good protagonists. The adult public does not get into the musical series so easily, but when the theme enables it, they are allowed to play music there. History has to put up with it being musical.”

Denis Smith: “There is a vast majority of children’s series on Disney or Nickelodeon and we cannot forget the pioneer ´Glee´, while I look forward to the promise of 20 years ago to film ´Wicked´. I highlight ´All that jazz´ by Fosse, very modern for the time. Not much musical is done in series, the protagonist of Hamilton is the one who has had the most traction in recent years and I also highlight ‘West side story’ in Spielberg’s version.

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