Dollhouse

GB - Introducing Andrea von Foerster

From Andrew: For the first time, and hopefully not the last, we have a very special guest posting in our blog. I have been so excited to get this rolling and have been having a hard time keeping it to myself. You may or may not know that Andrea does the music supervision on Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. She is one of two music supervisors I’m working with to post an occasional blog about music that speaks true to them right now or why they chose a song for a specific scene. Feel free to post questions below and please make her feel welcome. But enough from me, let’s get to her...

Pop culture junkie. Music nerd. Avid TV fan. Music supervisor. I am all these things. Who knew countless hours/days/months/years of TV watching, spending all of my money at record stores and an obnoxious need to know every piece of information about my favorite musicians would lead to a paying gig? I’d like to take a moment to thank the "American dream" because I’m living it.

Last year when I was hired to work on Joss Whedon’s show Dollhouse, I was ecstatic. I was a huge Buffy fan and it’s really satisfying working on shows with strong female lead characters. Dollhouse lends itself to quietly epic songs with female vocals. So when I heard British alternative singer/songwriter Carina Round and her new EP, I had to support it getting placed on the show. Now just because I especially liked the song "For Everything A Reason" doesn’t mean that it would ever fit a scene in the show or that the producers, editors, studio or network would like it. Music has to go through a lot of people to make it into an episode. But the song stood out with bold vocals, an ethereal eeriness and an amazing build. It seems everyone agreed because we ended up using the song in episode 107 of Dollhouse and it worked like magic. Carina Round was once signed to a label but she’s now going it alone and has self-released her new EP, Things You Should Know. And you really should know all five songs. The EP was released on Amazon on May 12th, 2009. Check out the first track "Backseat." That song gets stuck in my head for days.