Three voice actors, two lyricists, and two composers told BuzzFeed News what it was like 15 years ago to create what’s become TikTok’s latest trend.
featured four songs per episode, touching upon a wide variety of musical genres, from Motown to ska to klezmer. For “Castaways” — also the name of the 2005 episode in which it aired — the team quickly landed on, a style of samba music that originated in Brazil in the 1950s. “[It] seemed to fit perfectly,” said Leslie Valdes, who wrote the lyrics and the episode. “You think of ‘Girl From Ipanema,’ you think of kicking back at the beach, and obviously bossa nova is a perfect fit for that.
It was also a perfect fit for the show’s cocomposer, Doug Wieselman. “I studied Brazilian samba when I first came to New York, in a basement in the West Village, so I spent some time with those rhythms,” he said. As was typically the process for thestaff, the lyricists worked first, writing to the tune of another song from the genre to ensure they had the rhythm right — but not telling the composer what song they’d used, so he wouldn’t get stuck on it and accidentally write a knockoff.Corwin C.
But with more than 300 songs throughout the whole series, none of the writers guessed that “Castaways” would wind up with such an enormous fandom. They’ve been pleased to see a few othersongs also get new life on TikTok, such as “Into The Thick Of It,” which has been praised for one particular note Nash belts to the high heavens as Uniqua.“I never sang really clean on the songs — I was just always into it, always feeling it, I’d do a run here, a run there,” Nash said.
“Out of nowhere, people are like, ‘Uniqua snapped!’” said Nash. “And I’m just like wow, I didn’t know y’all loved her that much!”
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