How ​modern Music Supervisors ​craft the ​perfect Needle Drop

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  You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.

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  I'm Dallas Taylor.

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  All right, so are you ready to roll?

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  I'm already rolling.

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  Let's do it.

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  I've been rolling.

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  I'm rolling too.

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  Our last episode was a discussion between me, our supervising producer Casey, and de facto sounds producer Grace.

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  In it, Casey walked Grace and I through the early history of needle drops,

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  which are popular songs used in movies or TV shows.

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  So in part one, we left off at the end of the 1980s,

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  and that was right around the time that the job of music supervisor was starting to become more common in Hollywood.

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  So Dallas, do you want to describe what a music supervisor is?

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  Okay, so music supervisor is the person responsible for kind of the business

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  and the operations of getting music into some sort of media, whether it be movies, TV, video games.

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  They're the ones that are executing the plan.

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  Many of them also work heavily on...

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  Actually curating that music too.

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  And so it's this hybrid role that sits between creative and operations

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  and working directly with the artist to either create music or acquire music.

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