When Lena Dunham and Luis Felber First started dating, playlists were a big part of their love language.
“There were moments when we were not together-you know, life gets in the way of the middle of 30-year-olds-so we would make each other playlists,” says Felber, a musician in his own right as a frontman for the British band Attawalpa, over Zoom. “And it became a really big part of the type of meat and legs in this TV program.”
The show in question is “Too much“As the now married Dunham and Felber created and debuted on Netflix on Thursday. The Rome-Com series follows Jessica (” Hacks “-Stort Megan Stalter), a New Yorker moving to London after a devastating Breakup, and Felix (” White Lotus “Star Star Star Star Will sharp), a struggling musician who also struggles with previous trauma. The soundtrack contains original music from Attawalpa, played by Sharpe’s fictional band Felix and The Feelers, as well as Needle Drops from all over the musical spectrum including Fergie, Fiona Apple, Nicki Minaj, Jason Molina’s songs: Ohia, Miley, Wednesday, John Cale, Kale, Fred again, Kale, Kale, Fred again. Boblor, Boblor, Boblo, Boblo, Boblor, Boblo, Kendryfy, Boblo, Boblo, Boblo, Boblo, Boblo, Boblo, Boblor, Boblor, Boblo, Boblor, Boblor, Boblo, Boblor, Boblor, Boblor, Boblor, Boblor, Boblo Kendryfives, Bobor, Kendr, Bobor, Kendryfi. – Just to name a few. Most of the show’s music moments were already pencil into treatment when Dunham and Felber beat the Netflix show, and many of them came from the first playlists.
“Lena’s playlists for me were interesting, because it is more from the pop world. And my playlists were very American, land – I put no grinding or anything there,” Felber says with a laugh. “But you can see a gap … We both taught each other. And that is the beauty of a mix -CD, or nowadays a playlist, you are to show someone how you feel and also where you come from.”
Although “too much” is not completely autobiographical for their romance, Dunham – who moved to London 2021 – told Amount In her digital cover story this week: “It’s really not quot-Oocote Based on a true storyBut like everything I do, there is an element in my own life that I can’t help but inject. “The same goes for Felber. Lipstick and a matching guitar, Felix plays a moody, stripped version of Attawalpas” Always The Girls “(from the band’s new album” Experience “), accompanied by piano and violin.
Lena Dunham, Left, Megan Statler, Will Sharpe and Luis Felber at Netflix Special show of “Too Much” in London.
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To create on stage in Sharpe’s Felix, Felber says he was inspired by Elliott Smith during his “XO” -era 1998 and Nirvana -Frontman Kurt Cobain, especially for the first performance in Ivy House. “I’m so boring and basic, but I always go back to the” linked “in New York,” he says. “We refer to a lot, especially The Meat Puppets Songs (Cobain played) the music in Cello, just the glue from all that music for me is so perfect and so slacker-y. It’s the Beatles, but they are slack.”
When it comes to actually performing the songs, Felber was lucky that Sharpe was already a musician himself, after being trained on piano and playing in bands as a teenager. But he had not performed live for over a decade. “It was one of the fun challenges was working with LU. I haven’t played music since I literally was, I don’t know, 22 or anything. So long,” says Sharpe. “I liked his songs, but some of it was pretty scary.”
Felber helped Sharpe learn six songs from “Experience”, including “no restrictions” and “True love trajectory.” “Will, bless him, from Day Dot, he was like,” I just want to be able to play these songs without looking at an chordark, without looking at texts. I want to know them, I want to be in these songs, “says Felber.” So I was very happy for him to just throw his personality at it, or Felix personality at it. ”
Then Felber had to form Felix Band, Feers. He took Prasanna Puwanarajah, who plays Felix’s housemate and best friend Auggie, as the drummer – even though he had never played before. “He is a natural drummer, a little we knew,” says Felber. The band is rounded off by genuine blue musician Carlos O’Connell (guitarist of the Irish rock band Fontaines DC) on bass and David Ashby (Frontman from the local London band Sleaze, who actually first introduced Felber to Ivy House) on keys. Felber even set up a rehearsal space of 3 Mills studios in East London, where “too much” was filmed, so that Sharpe and the band could brush up between the scenes.
“In my head, Felix gives these songs a kind of echo and the bunymen Vibe,” says Felber about Sharpe singing voice. “He is an incredible student, and I think all you have to do is meet someone at their taste.”
Sharpe says he thought about creating a unique style or signature movement for Felix performance style – with reference to inspiration like Ian Curtis, Oasis, The Hups and Julian Casablancas – but in the end he thought, “just play the song, just damn play it. And then what your thing is going to happen when you don’t think so.”
When it comes to his favorite violations from the soundtrack, at the top of Felber’s list, Musgrave’s “Butterflies”, which plays during a tender moment between Jess and Felix. “When we dropped the song over the stage I like, cried because it was so beautiful,” he admits. There is also “Farewell Transmission” of The Late Molina’s songs: Ohia, which Felber says the team used as a filling music in editing before the show for the show was complete. “It worked just because it’s such a emotional song,” he adds. “For me, (Molina) is like a modern Neil Young or which mid-40s Kurt Cobain (would have sounded like).” But it was a wishful artist that Felber couldn’t get.
“At first I put a lot of Prince songs on this playlist. And he’s expensive,” he says. “You know, Season 2 may be full of Prince.”
Although a second season of “too much” has not yet been greenlit, Felber says he would “love to see more of Jess and Felix” but admits “we don’t control it, the universe does.” But he and Dunham have “thoughts on what it might look like.”
Until then, the couple is hard at work and shoots Dunham’s upcoming movie “Good Sex”, with Natalie Portman, which she writes and directs with Felber who provides the music.
“There will be lots of exciting original music in it, a really fun score and three cover versions of a fantastic song, but I will not say what it is because it is a big part of the movie,” he teases and adds: “Lena and me, we are always up to something. We are raccoons in the junk of life.”