![]() “We always had this idea that we could do a big school musical. ‘Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl’įrom the episode ‘Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl’, 2014 It’s a perfect example of his talent to be able to make a song with that many repetitions of the same word as funny and pretty as it is.” 2. In anybody else’s hands – or should I say mouth – it wouldn’t have worked. The extended version is this incredible piece of work. “Kevin Kline not only sang but played piano on our Christmas song ‘Oh Bourbon’. They’re just slightly heightened versions of the people watching the show.” Six Memorable Bob’s Burgers Musical Moments – as chosen by Loren Bouchard 1. It’s interesting when you see the kids walking around Comic-Con dressed as Tina and Louise – those characters were designed to look like kids walking around Comic-Con. We just wanted these girls and boys to feel real. We weren’t trying to do it in a way that was sycophantic or suck-upy or anything. “We created these characters to resemble the very people that are responding to them. Tina Belcher has been embraced as something of a feminist icon… The music video was great fun to do – it was an honour to have our characters show up in Sleater-Kinney’s musical world.” Looking back, it was such a leap of faith for them to let us gravitate towards one song and run with it. “ We had a super-secret week of listening to the album before its release and ‘A New Wave’ felt like the song that would fit our characters. What was it like working with Sleater-Kinney on the video for ‘A New Wave’? This Christmas, we’re going to do an hour-long special and it’s going to be a real musical with at least a song in every act.” It may be quite strange to watch but we decided it would be worthwhile because we love seeing the characters and backgrounds through other people’s eyes. More recently, we held a contest and reached out and asked for submissions for this strange mash-up where every scene is going to be in a different style. We’ve been looking at fan art since the beginning. ![]() Our premiere episode, which guest stars John Early (Search Party), is going to be drawn entirely by the fans. “We have an interesting experiment in the fall. What does the show have coming up in its eighth series? They have dialogue in there too, and they seemed like they were trying to capture the tone of the show.” They used the husband and wife making sweet, sweet love to each other so I’m all for it. “I tell you what, they did it right! I’m glad they didn’t depict any of the children. Have you seen the Bob’s Burgers porn parody, Bob’s Boners? The idea of a Bob’s Burgers movie that is a musical is an exciting challenge that we’re interested in taking on, and we’re just beginning to discuss it.” If it had come up a few years ago, I think it would have felt too hard and not right for the material, but the shift has been because we’ve been able to write musicals. “Yeah, we’ve just started talking about it. We’re going to leave it all on the field – we’re trying to spend every dime and put on stage show so big it’ll rival Pink Floyd.”Īre there any plans for a Bob’s Burgers movie? We’ve only done a little bit of music before, but this is going to be hopefully exactly what the audience would have wished for if they designed their own Bob’s Burgers concert. “Good question! We don’t know what it’s going to be like because we’ve never done it like this. Our plan was always to do little compositions to end each episode – we call it our Bollywood ending.” What we didn’t know was the extent to which we could eventually get all our characters singing. We knew Linda would be a fan of musical theatre. We knew we wanted Gene to be a hacky but passionate performer, so were constructing episodes from the beginning where we’d see him playing his Casio or, in the case of one episode, the triangle. There’s something humble about the ukulele that fit the humility of Bob and the restaurant. For example we did the theme song when we were still the earliest development. Was it originally the plan for music to play such a crucial part in Bob’s Burgers? As a box-set is released coralling together 107 songs from the first six seasons, NME sat down with creator Loren Bouchard to chew the fat. Whether it’s spoofing Tori Amos or a Broadway show-stopper telling the story of Thomas Edison’s love for his elephant Topsy, quirky-yet-catchy music has always been central to Bob’s Burgers, the cult Emmy-winning animated series about a family-run burger joint.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |