Siddhartha Khosla
speaker
226 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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In my head, the other words were This Is Us.
Well, the easy thing was there was that... Taylor wrote those words. And so it was like, he just took the theme. I had sort of, I started sketching out on piano, just what like the form of this thing would melodically, what it could be. And then he's like, let me just, let me just write some stuff lyrically.
And cause it also took the pressure off me because I had been living in this theme for so long. It's a very weird thing as a songwriter too. And you've probably experienced this too, right? Like if you have a melody, I always write lyrics last when my band always wrote lyrics last. Unless I had something meaningful I thought I had to say, which was very rare.
And so I would... I always think melodically first. And then I'm trying to put a square peg in a circular hole and trying to get the right lyric to match that melody. And it's frustrating. But here, I was like, Taylor, you handle it. I don't want to deal with the frustration of... And also, the guy's a lyrical genius. So he... He went, he's like, let me just come up with some ideas.
And then he gave those lyrics back to me and we sat together and then we amended the melody where it made sense to sing it in the way that his words were. And then obviously Mandy then.
Like I think it had that sort of same feeling at the end of the pilot when that Labi Safri song comes on and like you feel like the rug has been pulled from under you a little bit and the surprises of the show. Even that's like this is like more of like a meta surprise.
But when you're on piano and you in the break of the song and in the instrumental section, you're you know, your character is playing da da da da ding ding. I remember people reaching out on social media or like fans of the show afterwards saying when that came in, people were like, oh my gosh, we've been hearing this for six seasons at the end of every episode. Oh my God.
Like that had, it had that impact, which is cool. Like, you know.
As long as you don't think about it enough, it makes sense.
Why would that be in there? But it's to suspend a little disbelief.
And it's tied to that piano, tied to the childhood piano. It's a melody. And in some ways, it's like... And then I think about my relationship to the show, my family story. I felt like my story in the show, in terms of what I was able to bring to it, I felt like I could bring my family story and my own past into the show in such a fun, interesting way.
And even that idea of melodies being passed down generation to generation, my mom singing me things on the cassette tape, those melodies remaining in my head, and I teach them to my kids, or whatever that is, that happened kind of with that melody.
We got the Coastal Cards.
It was the end of 12th. Oh, wow. I thought it was earlier than that. I think it was 12th. Was that the episode where we see the footage from Jack's camera? The Super 8 footage?
Sterling's our roadie engineer. This is so special.
That's very sweet. Thank you for sharing that. Okay, I'll do it. Go for it. So the context of the use of where we use this song was in that episode, Rebecca's, she's coming to terms with her being about to be a mom and she doesn't think she'll be a great mom. Remember there's that moment, you're like, am I going to be a good mom?
And then the end of the episode, we start seeing this footage, Super 8 footage from Jack's camera. I think you have the slightly older versions of the kids, and you're seeing him filming you when you were pregnant. All around that time, you were having these issues, this conflict of, like, am I going to be a good mom?
And so then in the edit, I think Julia Grove, one of our amazing editors, we decided to just put this song in just to see what it did. because this was also the song about the cassette tape that my mom sent to me when I was a kid with her voice on it.
My parents always felt, my mom especially, even to this day, regrets sending me back to India because she was like, we came to this country to build a life for ourselves, and in that process sent our newborn child back to India. When you came back from India, you didn't even recognize us. I was mad with my mom when I came back. This song was also me telling my mom it's okay.
All right.
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