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Harlem Shake

Harlem Shake
Lisa GilroyDebut: #12 They Shoot, WE Score! Hollywood's Music Composers (w/ Lisa Gilroy)1 appearance
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"composer for every movies"

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2:22 (3m 37s)
CHARACTER_INTRO

The Composers' Roundtable Roll-Call

The panel of Hollywood music composers introduces themselves, ranging from movie veterans to a blackballed commercial writer and Hans Zimmer's 14-year-old son.

"My name is Karl-Heinz Stott. I am a movie composer."

"I'm Trisha Johnson, and I am a music composer for commercials. Or at least I was, I've been blackballed."

"I'm Diego Zimmer, Hans Zimmer's son. Excited to be here."

#Film Scoring#Hollywood#Music Industry
5:59 (1m 51s)
BACKSTORY_REVEAL

Harlem Shake's Mouth-Made Movie Scores

Harlem Shake reveals she writes original songs for every major movie using only her mouth, winning lawsuits to ensure her vocalizations remain in the final credits.

"All of your movies you do all of the sounds with your mouth."

"Wait seven minutes in pure black screen and then you will hear hurt me locker really, really quiet."

#Sound Design#Intellectual Property#Vocal Percussion
46:49 (1m 12s)
BACKSTORY_REVEAL

Harlem Shake's Vocal Instrument and the Die Hard Lawsuit

Harlem Shake explains that he is the 'voice' of movie scores, having sued the producers of Die Hard to ensure he gets paid $20k for every movie released, regardless of whether they use his vocalized theme songs.

"I made the Die Hard song that's... Die Hard, Die Hard, Bruce Willis crawling through the vent."

"I sued them and now I have to make the song for every movie. They pay me for it but they don't have to use it."

#Music Licensing#Intellectual Property#Vocal Performance
48:56 (2m 3s)
ESCALATION

Trisha Johnson's Blacklist and the WAP/MeUndies Confusion

Trisha reveals she was blackballed after accidentally mixing up a MeUndies jingle with an early copy of Cardi B's 'WAP' while composing drunk, leading to a career-ending copyright disaster.

"I miss the cocaine. I miss booking, but I miss cocaine more."

"Cardi B sent me a really early copy and she was like, keep this file safe. Don't do anything with this file."

#Commercials#Copyright Infringement#Substance Abuse
50:59 (37s)
CHARACTER_INTRO

Diego Zimmer: The Bridge to the Bathroom

Diego Zimmer describes his process of 'picking up where his father left off,' specifically writing the bridge to Pirates of the Caribbean while Hans Zimmer was taking a bathroom break.

"He went to the bathroom, he left off, and I picked up where he left off and I wrote that bridge."

"I wrote the bridge of that track."

#Nepotism#Film Scoring#Family Business
51:41 (1m 32s)
GAME_OR_PITCH

The Peace Sign vs. The 2008 Financial Crisis

Diego presents an original composition for a Paul Thomas Anderson film. While the other composers interpret his drawing as a 'spotty dog,' he reveals it is actually about the 2008 stock market crash.

"I literally drew a peace sign."

"No, it's about the stock market crisis in 2008."

#Abstract Art#Creative Process#Interpretation

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