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How Billie Eilish’s Song “Bury a Body” Actually Influenced the Storyline of ‘True Detective’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Billy Eilish and her Big bro Phineas have made it
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Speaker 2: a habit of Stockpilon Awards with their musical contributions to films,
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Speaker 2: starting with No Time to Die, from the Bond series
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Speaker 2: to What Was I Made for Barbie? Soundtrack or for
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Speaker 2: the first Time. One of Billy's songs is serving as
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Speaker 2: the title track for TV show twenty nineteen's Barry a Friend,
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Speaker 2: which runs during the credits of The True Detective's fourth season.
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Speaker 2: But Billy's fingerprints on the show run far deeper than
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Speaker 2: just the title sequence. Showrunner Isa Lopez tells Indy Wire,
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Speaker 2: I started writing during the lockdown and I was listening
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Speaker 2: day and night to Billy Eilish. Her irony and melancholy
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Speaker 2: and poetry informed a lot of what was happening in
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Speaker 2: this series. And with that particular song, Barry a Friend,
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Speaker 2: it was so weird because I thought of a tongue
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Speaker 2: and bearing a friend and stepping on glass, all things
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Speaker 2: that are in the show. Then I was writing and
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Speaker 2: I started to pay attention to the lyrics, and I
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Speaker 2: was like, that's insane that one by one, all the
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Speaker 2: elements of the series are in the song Season four
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Speaker 2: of True Detective on Max.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.