![]() ![]() An illicit house party, for example, is thrown to the tune of Saweetie's "My Type," and the pilot alone ambles through Ashnikko, Courtney Barnett, Princess Nokia, and Stella Donnelly. ![]() The show's every emotional crevice was an opportunity to hyper-dramatize and contemporize. Based on the novel of the same name by Megan Abbott, it's an ambitious universe and the show's music supervisors, Chris Swanson and Jessica Berndt, unfurl a just as ambitious soundtrack to go along with it.īoth hailing from Secretly Group - the media company that houses the esteemed independent labels of Jagjaguwar, Secretly Canadian, and Dead Oceans, Mitski's label - Swanson and Berndt rooted through the goldmines of their rosters to handpick over 100 songs for the shows first season. The easiest way to describe Dare Me is as a heady mix of Riverdale and Bring It On - a dark drama centered around the secret (un)doings of a midwestern high school's cheerleading team: a gun, a murder, a teacher-on-teacher secret affair. In the first episode of Dare Me, USA's dark cheerleading drama, Sutton Grove High School's rebellious top girl, Beth, gets fingered by a football jock in the janitor's closet to the crashing movements of Mitski's "A Pearl." It makes for a memorable and compelling moment, not only to hear Mitski in this messy and very teenage context, but to also hear Mitski at all on primetime cable television. ![]()
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