Nora Felder: Last News

Jon Burlingame editor The music of “The White Lotus,” “Severance,” “Stranger Things” and “Schmigadoon!” won Creative Arts Emmys Sunday night in a mixture of predicted wins and upsets. The big winner was Chilean-born, Montreal-based composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer who walked off with a pair of statues for his music for HBO’s “The White Lotus,” for main title theme music and for music composition for a limited or anthology series, movie or special. His primal drumbeats, wordless voices and wooden flutes set a tropical vibe for the Hawaiian resort and its offbeat visitors. And although it was entered in the “limited series” category, “The White Lotus” is slated to return for a second season.

Banff, the Canadian television event set in the Rocky Mountains, continues to attract top U.S. execs with Channing Dungey the latest addition.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for the first episode of “Yellowjackets” on Showtime. Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” is back, and viewers who hoped to hear a song from ’90s icon Tori Amos finally get their wish, as music supervisor Nora Felder delivers a tasty treat in the form of the 1994 song “Cornflake Girl.” Felder replaces former music supervisor Jen Malone, having helped Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” soar up the streaming charts with “Stranger Things” Season 4. “Cornflake Girl” closes out the first episode. Teen Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) has a hard time saying goodbye to Jackie (Ella Purnell), who froze to death in the Season 1 finale, after the two best friends had a fight, and Jackie spent the night outside in a snit. Shauna, guilt-ridden, spends much of the Season 2 premiere with Jackie’s corpse in the meat shed, talking to her (guest star Purnell talks back).

Lily Moayeri The Guild of Music Supervisors Awards celebrated its 13th annual awards ceremony at L.A.’s Wiltern Theatre Sunday night, with “Everything Everywhere All at Once” continuing its winning streak across awards shows. The film picked up honors for both the Oscar contender “This Is Life” as the best song written and/or recorded for a film and for music supervision for a film budgeted under $25 million. Also scoring top honors were music supervisors or writers for “Elvis,” “Stranger Things,” “Insecure,” ““Battlefield 2042 DLC” and “Saint’s Row V,” among other movies, television shows, video games and ad campaigns. It was a glitzy return for the organization which recognizes and provides extensive support for the unsung music heroes behind the screens for film, television, video games, advertising and trailers. Coming together in-person after the awards were held virtually for the last three years, the cross section of music supervisors, sync agents, publishing company representatives, actors and musicians in attendance brought their A-Game to the red carpet and the three levels of the historic venue, as well as to its expansive stage—and also took advantage of the opportunity to let loose and mingle with their colleagues.

How do you get Metallica to agree to have one of their songs synced in you TV show? Just ask, apparently. Or so says drummer Lars Ulrich. They’ll agree to any old nonsense.Earlier this year we heard from ‘Stranger Things’ music supervisor Nora Felder about the meticulous and protracted operation that was put in place to convince Kate Bush to allow ‘Running Up That Hill’ to be used in the latest series of the show.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorA year ago, as Emmy voters were considering potential contenders for outstanding music supervision, would any of them have guessed that Kate Bush would enter the top 10 of U.S. song consumption? Or that Metallica would see a resurgence based on a key synch? But such is the power of the soundtrack to Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” which can catapult a song from a few thousand streams to hundreds of millions.Credit music supervisor Nora Felder for identifying and clearing the placements for use in season 4.

Wilson Chapman editorAfter sending Kate Bush to the top of the charts, Volume 2 of “Stranger Things 4” brought out another centerpiece needle drop in the form of Metallica’s eight-minue, ’80s metal classic “Master of Puppets.” On Tuesday, the band responded to the use of their song in the show’s finale.In the Season 4 finale “The Piggyback,” the character Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) plays “Master of Puppets” — released in 1986, the year in which the season is set — to distract the demonic bats protecting the lair of main villain Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower). As Variety exclusively reported, series creators the Duffer Brothers wrote the song into the script during pre-production, after which series music supervisor Nora Felder got clearance from the band.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched Episodes 8 and 9 of “Stranger Things 4,” now streaming on Netflix.If Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” was the official song of Memorial Day weekend, then Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” may well have been the one for Independence Day weekend.Thanks to the latest season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” Bush’s 1985 hit — which saves the character Max’s life — soared toward the top of the U.S. charts after it was featured in season 4.

Ellise Shafer As evidenced by the meteoric resurgence of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” after its appearance on “Stranger Things 4,” the show’s soundtrack has become just as much a phenomenon as its thrilling plot.With the final two episodes of Season 4 dropping on Netflix today, Legacy Recordings has released the complete soundtrack to “Stranger Things 4” in digital and physical forms. The album contains six additional songs, including an extended version of Bryce Miller and Alloy Tracks’ remix of Journey’s “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart),” featuring the band’s singer Steve Perry.“I was stunned at how cool it was,” Perry said of the original remix in a statement.

I don’t want to start this story using the old cliche of waiting ages for something and then two of them coming along at once, but Kate Bush is making it really difficult.I mean, she barely talks publicly at all, and then a new series of ‘Stranger Things’ goes live and and she’s issuing statement after statement. Like buses.

Kate Bush has commented on the return of her 1985 song ‘Running Up That Hill’ to the charts. The track is currently sitting at number eight in the UK singles chart and may reach number one this week, thanks to its appearance in the new series of ‘Stranger Things’.“You might’ve heard that the first part of the fantastic, gripping new series of ‘Stranger Things’ has recently been released on Netflix”, Bush wrote on her website.

Three-time Grammy nominee Kate Bush issued a rare statement on Sunday thanking fans of Netflix's Stranger Things for the surprising resurgence of her 1985 hit Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God).'You might've heard that the first part of the fantastic, gripping new series of Stranger Things has recently been released on Netflix. It features the song, Running Up That Hill which is being given a whole new lease of life by the young fans who love the show — I love it too!' the British 63-year-old wrote on her official website.'Because of this, Running Up That Hill is charting around the world and has entered the UK chart at No.

Kate Bush has shared a rare public statement following ‘Running Up That Hill’ re-entering the charts after featuring in Stranger Things 4.The track forms a prominent part of the new series’ storyline as the kids of Hawkins, Indiana battle against a terrifying new monster.Since the new episodes were released by Netflix last month (May 27), the 1985 single has seen a 153 percent increase in streams and this week re-entered the Top 10 of the Official UK Singles Chart. To celebrate the resurgence of the track, Bush has now posted a statement on her official website.“You might’ve heard that the first part of the fantastic, gripping new series of Stranger Things has recently been released on Netflix,” she wrote.

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) will end up being the sound of summer 2022. Her 1985 single/stone-cold classic is leaping up the charts and, according to the number of search-engine-friendly headlines I’ve seen, a new generation is tapping “who is Kate Bush?” into the search bar. Which means an older generation is inevitably tutting about them needing to ask who Kate Bush is in the first place.

Kate Bush reportedly gave permission to Stranger Thingsto use her song ‘Running Up That Hill’ because she’s fan of the series.Streams of the ’80s synth pop track had increased by 153 per cent after the song appeared on the latest season of the Netflix show. Bush’s seminal hit features on the first episode, in a key moment involving Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink).The song, taken from Bush’s ‘Hounds of Love’, overtook ‘Wuthering Heights’ on Spotify to become her most popular title on the service after it experienced a surge in streams on Spotify.

Clayton Davis All it took was a Kate Bush track and the reading of a letter to clue the world into the greatness of Sadie Sink, who plays tomboy Max Mayfield in the fourth season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” Her outstanding work in this season of the hit fantasy show has captured the cultural zeitgeist. With phase one voting merely two weeks away, she may have put herself in firm contention to nab her first Emmy nomination for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series.The 20-year-old sensation had the most significant arc of any character in the seven-episode season.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorKate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (Make a Deal with God)” stormed to the top of the iTunes chart this weekend after “Stranger Things” season four featured the 1985 song as a plot device.In the new season, Max — played by Sadie Sink — is grieving Billy’s death. She’s left feeling vulnerable and listens to the Bush classic on repeat.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“Stranger Things” music supervisor Nora Felder could very well be hearing her name when nominations for the 74th annual Emmy Awards are announced on July 12.The three-time nominee is the reason Kate Bush is currently trending on Twitter, but that’s the tip of the iceberg of Felder’s work on the show’s fourth season. This season Felder uses needle drops to root audiences deeper in the ’80s with needle-drop picks ranging from Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus” to the Beach Boys’ cover of “California Dreamin’.”Here’s a guide to five of the best music moments from the first few episodes.Sadie Sink’s Max is still finding her way around the town and residents of Hawkins. Audiences learn in the first episode that her favorite song is Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill.” It’s a song Max plays on a loop, or seems to. Fast forward to episode 4, when Max faces a nightmare (avoiding spoilers) and Kate Bush’s music practically saves her life.The Byers family has just relocated from Hawkins to California.