RE-RELEASE episode! This week, we revisit the fascinating conversation with the composer of “This Is Us,” “Only Murders in the Building,” and so much more… Siddhartha Khosla. The hosts talk about Sidd’s music being a “warm musical hug,” the reverse engineering that went into not only the writing of the show but scoring as well, how Sidd's upbringing inspired the soundtrack, what it was like being college roommates with This is Us creator Dan Fogelman and so much more! Performing his song, “Evergreen Cassette,” and bringing back all the feels, you don't want to miss this episode with Siddhartha Khosla! That Was Us is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Follow That Was Us on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Threads, and X! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What challenges did Mandy Moore face during the wildfires?
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Hello, friends. It's Mandy Moore. Welcome back to a re-release episode of That Was Us. We today are going to be replaying one of my favorite episodes so far of the series, our conversation with Sid Khosla. Now, chances are, if you love our show, you may be aware, maybe not so aware, that a big part of that is Sid Khosla's incredible score. He was our composer.
He wrote all of the original songs for the show throughout the entire series. He is just such an intensely talented human and wonderful friend. I was so glad to be able to chat with him. In this conversation, I remember vividly Chris mentioning how much he realized that the music made him feel safe while he was experiencing the show.
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Chapter 2: What was the inspiration behind Sid Khosla's music?
2016.
Yeah, beginning of 2016. Like in February?
Yeah, yeah, January, February, yeah.
I think it was probably February or March he called me and he goes, I have this new show. It's called The Untitled Fogelman Project or whatever. He's like, I'm just going to send you the script. And he's like, let me know what you think of it. And he's like, we have my directors from Crazy Stupid Love, Glenn and John, are coming on board.
And Dan's like, they have people that they've worked with before in terms of composers. And they've worked with people that I love, too. And Dan's like, just see what you think. read it. And I read the script and blown away. I just remember being like, there's some magic to this. This is really special.
So at that time, and I've told this story before, my wife and I were living with our daughter, Nevi. We were living in Jersey City in Jersey. And I was composing everything at that point. People thought, like I had a friend of mine who lived in Brooklyn, like another music composer that sometimes I'd go to his studio to work out of.
I started telling people that I worked from Brooklyn, because it just sounded cooler. And so anyone I talked to here, like, oh, yeah, Sid's in Brooklyn. Hey, that sounds cooler than saying, like, Jersey City, right? And it sounds way cooler than where I really was working was my parents' basement in Jersey. Yeah.
So I, so my parents live in New Jersey and I needed to find some, this place a little bit more space. So I'd go into their basement and I set up a little desk. It was just like, it was this wooden table and I had a laptop on it and I set it up in the corner of the basement and I would just work from there. And I never told anybody that I worked from my parents' basement.
And when I got the pilot, when I got that pilot episode, I was blown away by that script. Dan told me, this is not your gig basically right now. Like it's, I'm not, you're just not gonna, can't just give it to you basically. You just have to, you have to talk to Glen and John, see how they feel about you, because they're doing the pilot and you know, the directors of pilots are huge.
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Chapter 4: What role does music play in 'This Is Us'?
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.
Thank you.
All right.
If I mistook the sun for a mango, I'd fly up there and reach for it too It's the story of something older And bigger than me and you And you told it in a letter In the form of an evergreen cassette And I played it in the morning till after the sun would set see mother I believe that half of everything I hear is true between you and me I believe the anecdotes too
In the veranda In the midnight heat Cousins and I would wait for the rains Singing songs about America And then the first drops came So don't worry Even though you were Oceans and continents sway I heard evergreen hits Lullabies And everything you had to say See mother I believe That half of everything I hear is true Between you and me
I believe the anecdotes too If they get you through If time, time could be bent with the drop of a tear You'd see it rained in our house for a year This is the sound of the beating you'd hear On the tapes you've taped over all of our hopes and our fears The open veranda's been flooding for years I always hoped that I'd see you here But time, time can't be bent with the drop of a tear.
And though you say you missed out all of those years, your voice on the tapes always kept us near. See, mother, I believe that half of everything I hear is true. Between you and me, I believe in everything you do.
Ladies and gentlemen, Sid Khosla, the composer for This Is Us.
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