Siddhartha Khosla
speaker
226 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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It may have been still its own, it could have been great in its own way, but like, it would have been a different thing, inevitably.
Yes. Right where you want. And then I started seeing the pilot episode. And I think in the pilot, when they were working on the pilot, they probably had temp music that I never got to see.
Because they were deep in, when I finally got to see, the first thing they sent me was a completed director's cut. Like Dan was already working in there. And Dan was like, Sid, can you just write score for these scenes here?
And I would start writing score for the scenes. And normally an editor always will kind of, to present their cut. They will find music from somewhere. And so on this particular show, they would just send me dry picture and I would just write.
And then that became, and so I think Dan also, which is the strength of Dan, and you probably experienced this as actors and directors and working on the show, is he's so collaborative. He wants you to bring your best version of yourself to these projects. And it's not, honestly, it's so rare. that that happens in our industry.
Yeah, I mean. I'm Indian, so. I'm Indian, yeah. That's right. Next question. I'm kidding.
Right, right. So a bouzouki is a Greek instrument, but I'm using it and the acoustic guitar, you're right. There's a lot of sort of Indian influence in the music. And- Back to sort of like my story, when my parents came here in the late 70s, I was born soon after they got here. And at that time, I think they brought like $8 with them to the U.S. Are you serious?
That's all they had coming to this country. There was no foreign currency reserve at the time. It's pre-Reagan. Whole other thing, but no foreign currency reserve. And so there was only like a finite amount of rupees you could exchange for dollars before coming to the U.S. Wow. So they came here with $8 on scholarships. I was born.
They sent me back to India to be raised by my grandparents for the first few years of my life. Oh, wow. A couple years, two, three years. And so I grew up listening to like old Hindi music. that my grandparents would play for me. That's all I listened to. Then my mom would send, and this will move into this other thing later, but my mom would send cassette tapes
with her voice on it to me in India for me to hear her voice, for her to sing me lullabies, tell me she loved me, she missed me, all that, right? Because it was $24 a minute to make a long distance phone call.
That's what it was. And if you talked, it'd be like, hello, hello, hello, hello. You'd hear like an echo go on forever. It was the worst phone calls. So I was, I had my mom singing me These old little lullabies, old Hindi lullabies on these cassette tapes. And I would hear all this stuff. And so my...
Musical DNA was sort of being formulated at that time between old Hindi music and people, and my parents who are now in the West, I'm in the East, reversed, sending their music to me and me learning that way. So In My Blood is this... It's there, that Indian music.
When I got back to the States, I started singing when I got back to the States more. But as a kid, I was exposed to all this music. And I don't... And in my band, there's hints of the sort of Indian influence in the music. Because then I grew up in the U.S. And then I loved R.E.M. and The Beatles and The Police and The Cure and The Smiths and Depeche Mode and, you know, and.
And then I also had this love for Indian music. And I grew up singing Indian music. My mom would be like, every Sunday we'd go to temple. And on the night before, she would write these lyrics out. And she's like, you're going to sing this song in front of 100 aunties and uncles in temple tomorrow.
So I was an Indian singer and singing Indian music, and then I also loved all this other Western music. So all that stuff became part of the way I wrote music with my band, somewhere in between, sat somewhere between. And in my scores, it never entered my scores, ever. It was always like I kept it very separate. I didn't want to be known to be like, just because I'm Indian, that's all I know.
So I never did that. But then on this show... The first episode was not very Indian. Second episode wasn't very Indian, but it was episode 13. Season one, episode 13, the one that you guys just aired.
Okay, yeah. In that episode, our editor sent me the sequence of Jack's funeral. And it starts off with Chrissy- on the sticks in that weight loss canvas. And she's going, just banging those sticks. And all of a sudden you cut to this minute and a half, minute and 45 second sequence, back and forth of her playing the sticks Her as a kid, she's looking at the size of her sweater. Yeah.
You see Jack doing, like, Vogue stuff with her. That's right. You cut back to Chrissy on the sticks. Yep. And then as that scene is getting more and more sort of, like, involved, like, what's happening, what's happening, what's happening, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, we flash to Jack's funeral.
And what I'm getting also has no sound. It's just silent. Not even dialogue except for, you know, the Vogue stuff.
So we cut to the funeral, and it's just... Nothing, just like that. And all of a sudden, you see the teens at the funeral. You see Jack's picture. You see the urn.
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