One of the most recent songs Westworld has used on the show, 2011's "Wicked Games," like most of The Weeknd's club-ready jams, is about being horny, getting fucked up, and feeling bad, but there are a couple subtextual reasons producers might have chosen it. Thus, behold: this compendium of all the pop cover songs Westworld has used, where it appeared, and (likely) why. But besides all the Radiohead (Hey! They got a real one in the finale: " Codex" from 2011's King of Limbs), it's kind of hard to keep track of every modern song that ever had its day in Sweetwater and beyond. Composed for orchestra, string quartet, and a very real player piano by Ramin Djawadi, who also scores Game of Thrones (if you couldn't tell by comparing the theme songs), most every song has deliberate purpose hiding in the original lyrics that are applicable to a character's development and motivations. But one thing has remained consistent after all these years: Some of its best nuggets come from its heavy use of incongruous song covers.
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With every episode packing in timeline jumps and thin metaphors adding fuel to the show’s theories fire, the HBO series has moved a long way away from its initial draw as a sentient robot drama. “I’m still tweaking them.Westworld has sort of lost the thread in Season 4. “Right now, some of the episodes are blurring into each other!” he laughed. “‘Paint It Black’ happens during a really big action scene, and it has all these great ups and downs - the shooting, the talking - and so I bring it down and then back up a bit, which was a lot of fun to arrange for the orchestra.”Īt the moment, Djawadi is continuing to write and arrange the music for the final episodes, but as Westworld’s season progresses, he’ll return to be Vulture’s guide to the music used in the show, following each episode. “What’s so great about using these pieces instead of the score is that they are known melodies, which enhances the idea that this is all scripted,” Djawadi said. Even if a guest tries to become immersed in this world, the music will undermine it. “You get the great shot of the player spinning up, and then the shot of Teddy in the train starting up again, and you get the theme each time he walks into the saloon.”īut at other times in the loop, the player piano starts to play a reduction of “Black Hole Sun,” or lead into an orchestral version of “Paint It Black,” which underscores the unsettling truth about the saloon and the park - it’s not the Wild West, but a re-creation of it. (Although, in actuality, by Westworld’s showrunner, Jonathan Nolan.) Sometimes, as in the show’s premiere episode, the player piano will repeat the show’s theme, just as the other robotic hosts repeat scripted dialogue on their narrative loops. The player piano itself is a kind of robot, playing songs on demand at preprogrammed moments, presumably controlled by the humans at command central. “It’s a Western theme park, and yet it has robots in it, so why not have modern songs? And that’s a metaphor in itself, wrapped up in the overall theme of the show.”
“The show has an anachronistic feel to it,” he explained to Vulture. It might seem both thrilling and a bit disconcerting when you first hear modern music in the Wild West setting, and that’s the point, according to show composer Ramin Djawadi, who also scores the music on Game of Thrones.
When you’re watching Westworld, pay special attention to the player piano in the saloon - at key moments, it could kick in a little Soundgarden, Rolling Stones, or even Radiohead for the paranoid androids and human guests inhabiting its world.
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