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After a decade in which the needle drop seemed to be winning, the original film score has come back with a specific force. An essay on what the current generation of composers is doing that their predecessors could not.
Two years after Challengers arrived in its pastel pressure-cooker, the film's trick is clearer: it is not really about tennis. It is about what love looks like when three people are too competitive to admit they love anything but competition.
The specific practice of choosing the pre-existing songs that go into films and prestige TV has quietly become as identity-defining as cinematography. An essay on who the contemporary music supervisors are and what they do.