We decided that her singing, “Everything is gonna be all right," choosing an affirming song instead of going out with a sadder song, seemed a more interesting way to end the episode. Roll Up Your Sleeves was a fresh way to approach all their conflicts. Meg Mac, Roll Up Your Sleeves ( Episode 2)Ī lot of the struggles that the characters face this season start surfacing in this episode. It was a positive ending to an episode of many emotional outbursts. We had this song flagged for a while and were saving it for the perfect use. Our initial song choice fell through, but sometimes it is a blessing in disguise. We were searching for an upbeat sound to take us into Marnie’s wedding and Fool For Love was a very last minute decision.
"With Girls we have such flexibility with genres that the options can be endless, so to narrow it down we choose music that evokes a reaction and we trust and hope that our viewers will have the same response," he said.Īs a musical postmortem, Raval breaks down Girls' fifth season by highlighting 10 key songs, from nabbing an unreleased Ellie Goulding track and choosing the perfect David Bowie cover to bringing Marnie and Desi to life.
The goal? To find music that resonates emotionally. “ Girls is a team effort," the show's music supervisor Manish Raval told USA TODAY, describing how his co-supervisors Tom Wolfe and Jonathan Leahy and music coordinator Alison Rosenfeld "sift through hundreds of hours of music searching for new and upcoming bands that no one has heard before, hidden gems from icons from the past as well as unreleased material by some of today’s biggest artists." The show's season 5 finale aired Sunday night, ending another run of episodes that soundtracked the girls' existential crisis with on-the-nose song selections, from Ellie Goulding to country classics to the real voices of Marnie and Desi. No spoilers here - the music of Girls is as essential to the show as Hannah or Marnie.