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Bravo's music department has some majorly sketchy ways of circumventing musical copyright infringement laws.

My roommate and her friends watch "Project Runway" in our room every Wednesday, so I've just started watching the last three episodes.

In the Couture challenge episode set in Paris from last week, the music folk did some really rearranging of cues from Yann Tiersen's Amélie score: "L'autre valse d'Amélie, "Soir de fête" and "A quai" played in that order in the episode. They were reorchestrated for the main melody line to be played by the accordion and used minimal instrumental backing-I remember hearing a few strings and maybe some light woodwinds at best. They would all start with the original melody, but then the rest of the themes would be reworked slightly as "clichéd French café music." The weird thing is that they do use a short clip (10-15 seconds, I think?) from the actual Amélie soundtrack-I can't remember which piece it is at the moment, but I do remember hearing it around the time when the designers and models go onto the bâteau mouche.

In today's episode, when the gray haired guy presents the models into the workshop for initial fittings in the L'Oréal black and white challenge, I could *swear* that I heard the flute part of Lalo Schifrin's Man from UNCLE season 2 title music reworked with more techno loops. Perhaps the piece of music was chosen for the hip New York retro pop culture vibe; Schifrin's Mission: Impossible title theme is still really popular so I guess the musical powers that be thought that his MfU theme arrangement might have the same coolness factor. It would've been even more clever to have used the Return of the Man from UNCLE music-Illya Kuryakin became a fashion designer after leaving UNCLE-but "Project Runway's" target audience is probably too young to get the reference.

I wonder which film composer will be ripped off next.

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Date: 2006-09-14 08:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mvmontgomery.livejournal.com
I saw those episodes. Thanks for highlighting the score.

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Date: 2006-09-15 10:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theladyrose.livejournal.com
You're welcome! I have a strange tendency to remembe film and TV music cues, and I find it interesting to hear how these cues are recycled through different forms of media. At one point a Chinese government-sponsored cable TV channel broadcasting in the US used the love theme from Dances With Wolves to advertise one of their soap operas.

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Date: 2006-09-14 08:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] horosha.livejournal.com
You're the only one I know who watches Projct Runway for the music. Hilarious.

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Date: 2006-09-15 11:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theladyrose.livejournal.com
Heh, I only started watching because I couldn't concentrate on reading with the TV on, so I figured if I couldn't beat them I might as well watch with them. It was then that I started noticing these weird musical tics :)

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