Jessica McKenna

Right.

Right.

Hacks is much more.

is so much more successful when they're in the riff of like, maybe it's this, maybe it's that.

And you're like, oh great, I understand their comedic brains, but I don't necessarily have to like six months later think this singular joke is amazing.

Right.

Or you're only dealing with like tops and tails of a sketch.

You're never watching like a whole sketch, which is another thing about like fake music is like, can you end the recording session?

And you kind of get a glimmer of what the song could be.

That's another thing, though, is if you can use pastiche or such a specific genre that's not current, that's the other thing that I think is the hardest, is trying to write current music.

Especially, I think it's really hard to see The Forest of the Trees.

I don't really know what the sound of right now is.

That might just be because I'm old.

I'm like, I wouldn't know how to write a song for right now versus if you asked me to write a song for 2005, I'd be like, great.

Or stand behind a rock glam sound.

You're working in a more refined palette that's going to allow you to, I think, have a higher success rate.

And like centuries of musical reference he could be making.

He could be like, I can't get this song from like 1682 up.

You know what I mean?

Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah.