Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Buffy wouldn’t listen to Widespread Panic: 11 fictional characters assigned questionable taste in music

1. Buffy and Willow embrace Widespread Panic and The String Cheese Incident, Buffy The Vampire Slayer Just being fictional doesn’t prevent characters from being entitled to their own tastes in art. Sometimes a character’s musical preferences can serve as lazy shorthand to establish an identity: Slap a Clash T-shirt on Jesse Bradford in Bring It On, and bang, instant punk cred. Other times, what characters listen to feels as essential to their personalities as what they actually say. Witness Samantha Morton in Morvern Callar, soundtracking her hazy way through an in-between-days state-of-mind with krautrock, or Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra’s “Some Velvet Morning.”

More often, musical choices serve as yet one more detail used to build a personality. But what about when those choices feel at odds with the character? Keen-eyed viewers of Buffy The Vampire Slayer noted a proliferation of flyers for Widespread Panic and The String Cheese Incident popping up in the show’s background. While it made sense for those hard-touring bands to make regular stops in Sunnydale, California—it is a college town, after all—it didn’t make that much sense for the show’s supernatural Scooby Gang to care. The Bronze didn’t seem to play host to jam bands, and neither Buffy nor her friends seemed likely to embrace the granola-and-spliffs lifestyle. So what to make of the Widespread Panic poster in Buffy and Willow’s dorm room in the fourth season? Did Buffy hang out with the hacky-sack crowd between episodes? Did the earthy Tara turn Willow on to the pleasures of noodly solos, along with witchcraft? Or is this a case of jam-inclined production designer run amok?

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