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The composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer leaves the white lotus. After working on the partition of the HBO show for three seasons – and produced an absolute banger of a theme song – Tapia de Veer left The white lotusCiting creative disagreements with Mike White, the creator and director of the show.
Tapia de Veer described their relationship with the New York Times As “Rock ‘N’ Roll Band Story” in which the guitarist and the singer do not get along exactly, and he compared it to the 1978 film The Cage aux Folles: “You know how there is Albin, who is like the star, and there is Renato, who is the producer who always takes care that Albin does not lose his head about something, because Albin is the diva and Renato is the guy who tries to make everything work. For me, the series looked a lot like that.”
The composer says that his quarrel started during the first season when his style “super dark and angry” did not correspond to what the creative team wanted – a Clubby atmosphere more optimistic than someone would listen to, let’s say, Ibiza. Instead, he held his vision and composed the strange and upset music that we hear in the show, rather than the “cold, sexy” atmosphere that White wanted. I may be in evil here, but the theme of season two is Exactly Something I would like to listen to in a club on a Spanish island. But it’s just me.
The theme of season three took its turn, removing the recurring OOH-LOOO Melody who had made the score famous in the first place. After the viewers reacted negatively, Tapia de Veer sent a text of the producers and said that he wanted to give fans a longer version which included the old melody. “He thought it was a good idea. But then Mike cut that-he was not happy with that,” he said. Instead of waiting for White’s blessing, he decided to turn it off anyway. “I mean, at that time, we already had our last fight forever, I think. So he just said no to anything,” he said. “So I just downloaded this to my YouTube.”
Three Emmys later, Tapia de Veer said he had no regrets. “It was worth all the tension and almost force music in the show, in a way, because I did not have many allies in there,” he said, adding that he was proud that he had never abandoned. “Maybe I was not professional, and for sure Mike feels that I was still not professional towards him because I did not give him what he wanted. But what I gave him did ThisYou know – these Emmys, people go crazy. “”
Although I miss the haunting music of Tapia de Veer, this qurede made me imagine possible tensions for the next season of The white lotus. But knowing white, he has probably already worked it.
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