And, according to Rhimes and music supervisor Alex Patsavas, the remainder of Grey's Anatomy's 10th season will exclusively feature only music from the '80s Covers project.
"Shonda had this idea back in the fall and we started to talk about songs she knew would make sense with the story," Patsavas tells The Hollywood Reporter. "We started with a couple of songs that she was interested in seeing if there were great modern interpretations for but at some point along the way she felt strongly that the way to tell the story in the second half of the season was to use modern interpretations of her favorite songs of the '80s and the songs she felt would tell the story the best."
"I called Alex Patsavas with what I worried was a bad idea: I wanted to see if we could find covers of '80s songs. Alex is why I have good taste in music. She creates the pool of music from which I choose songs to go on my shows. I didn't know if this '80s covers project was a good/tasteful idea or not but I knew that Alex would know," Rhimes tells THR. "Happily, Alex told me she loved the idea. She then asked me to make a list of songs I wanted to hear covered. I went off and wrote down every '80s song that I ever loved, and I made this very long list. Then Alex did what Alex does best -- she went out and found amazing bands that had covered these songs. She'd email me these ZIP files with like, five different artists each covering the same Whitney Houston song and I would go out of my mind with excitement. It's honestly become the most fun part of my job."
The '80s Covers project started with the second cover of "Eclipse" this season -- an intentional choice and way to tie-in the music with the first half of the season. ("Eclipse" was featured in episode 12, performed by Jill Andrews.)
"We started slowly, introducing maybe one song into an episode and built from there. Now my vision is complete -- the shows are now all '80 covers all the time," Rhimes says, pointing to what she called an "amazing" cover of Lauper's "Time After Time" performed by The Wind & The Wave this week and a "brilliant" version of Houston's "How Will I Know" by Sam Smith set to be featured in episode 16 on March 20.
"Shonda had this idea back in the fall and we started to talk about songs she knew would make sense with the story," Patsavas tells The Hollywood Reporter. "We started with a couple of songs that she was interested in seeing if there were great modern interpretations for but at some point along the way she felt strongly that the way to tell the story in the second half of the season was to use modern interpretations of her favorite songs of the '80s and the songs she felt would tell the story the best."
"I called Alex Patsavas with what I worried was a bad idea: I wanted to see if we could find covers of '80s songs. Alex is why I have good taste in music. She creates the pool of music from which I choose songs to go on my shows. I didn't know if this '80s covers project was a good/tasteful idea or not but I knew that Alex would know," Rhimes tells THR. "Happily, Alex told me she loved the idea. She then asked me to make a list of songs I wanted to hear covered. I went off and wrote down every '80s song that I ever loved, and I made this very long list. Then Alex did what Alex does best -- she went out and found amazing bands that had covered these songs. She'd email me these ZIP files with like, five different artists each covering the same Whitney Houston song and I would go out of my mind with excitement. It's honestly become the most fun part of my job."
The '80s Covers project started with the second cover of "Eclipse" this season -- an intentional choice and way to tie-in the music with the first half of the season. ("Eclipse" was featured in episode 12, performed by Jill Andrews.)
"We started slowly, introducing maybe one song into an episode and built from there. Now my vision is complete -- the shows are now all '80 covers all the time," Rhimes says, pointing to what she called an "amazing" cover of Lauper's "Time After Time" performed by The Wind & The Wave this week and a "brilliant" version of Houston's "How Will I Know" by Sam Smith set to be featured in episode 16 on March 20.
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Ooh, I love this idea! Can't wait for the "Time After Time" and the "How Will I Know" covers.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea!
Love it! Liked it in the last Episodes a lot! Some beautiful Covers!
ReplyDeleteThe "Total Eclipse of the Heart" cover was pretty great!
ReplyDeleteLoved Man in the Mirror and Don't You Want Me covers last week, great idea
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one who couldn't care less about this?
ReplyDeleteI guess this started back when Matthew proposed to April with '500 miles' and it was repeated at the end of the episode when Meredith went into labour.
ReplyDeletesame. It's a great idea but to be honest, I want spoilers about storylines, not the songs that will be featured.
ReplyDeleteBut it allows for some interesting speculation about where the songs will be included. There are so many shows that the music has made the scene what it is, be it a score piece or something with lyrics.
ReplyDeleteYes. I bought it ;-)
ReplyDeleteIf we're raising 80's awareness here, I'll let Kevin Bacon contribute to the cause:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09q04Dlh7r8
Please if your gonna use some of music like this at least use the original singers because hearing these songs at all is bad enough.
ReplyDeletethe "Man in the Mirror" cover is better than original
ReplyDeleteI glad they're doing this. The music has not been that great in S9-10A. Season 9 had a few great songs but in 10A the music was horrible. They really tried it w/ the rap music. I like hip hop but I don't want to hear it on Grey's. If they aren't going to give us any good indie or alternative music, this is probably the next best thing.
ReplyDeleteLol. You can't imagine how much I don't care about this.
ReplyDeleteGrey's has introduced me to a lot of great artists over the 10 years but that's when they use artists and their own songs. I dislike covers.