Today’s Needle Drop is Alice Boman’s Waiting, chosen by Normal People music supervisor Juliet Martin.
Juliet says - “I gobbled up the series Transparent which came out a number of years ago. I loved its take on a dysfunctional family in LA and the upheaval in their lives following the discovery that their father is a trans woman named Maura.
Swedish singer-songwriter Alice Bowman had her track Waiting featured twice during episode 9, season 2. Once right before the end and then, again, with the Pal remix version over the end credits. It had such an impact with its first use that it is a wonderful way for viewers to be brought back to that emotion as the series ends. It really is a great illustration of the emotional power of music.
The first usage scores a complex scene: Maura rejected at a women’s festival which is supposedly a safe place. The lines blur between the family’s present and past - a raid by Nazis on their ancestors’ museum in 1933. The track is so beautiful and achingly sad - the lyrics Are You Coming Back suggest loss and speak to the main storyline.”
Read Juliet’s full bio HERE.
