The first time I watched the scene, I queued up Siri to ask for the song’s details and got a single Youtube result: a one-minute, 25-second track with very few views, on an account with just three subscribers. It may seem surprising that a song with no buzz is featured on the soundtrack of such a popular show, especially since past seasons include material from lauded musicians like City Girls, Saweetie, SZA, and Cardi B. But Insecure is more than a weekly 30-minute respite from the drudgery of our everyday lives. Yvonne Orji's Life Isn't As Messy As Molly's The show has long served as a vehicle for artist discovery, championing up-and-coming musicians from the Los Angeles area especially-many of whom Insecure music supervisor Kier Lehman and creator and star Rae cull from their personal music libraries.
Insecure's soundtrack always serves as an extension of the script. When words fail the characters, the score swoops in to enhance their emotions with cleverly-placed lyrics that further the narrative.
“With Insecure, we wanted to curate a specific vibe: chilled R&B, West Coast but modern, or songs that have a good bounce to it,” Lehman, who has worked as music supervisor on films like Queen & Slim and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, tells. “Most of the time there’s an emotional depth to the songs.” You might not notice, since Insecure’s appeal lies in its humorous exploration of Black millennial adulthood, soundtracked with rhythmic, upbeat melodies that prompt a bedroom twerk-off (or mirror raps), and slow-burning nocturnal R&B that might result in an unsolicited text. But adulting comes with its gut punches, like Issa and Molly’s friendship breakup that fuels Insecure’s fourth season-its most emotional yet. “We never wanted to overstay our welcome.This year, the characters’ vulnerability, fragility, and pain are exposed through the music like never before. It’s like these are the only shoes I make and this is all I can make this year. It’s like a shoe cobbler that makes eight shoes. “It isn’t a show you can just churn out mass things. “I’ve been a part of predominantly white shows and it’s always like, ‘Oh, we can’t find directors of color, we can’t find that person.’ We found them, they’re there,” Penny said on the red carpet, held in Baldwin Hills’ Kenneth Hahn Park, where he also shared hopes that Black crewmembers who worked on the show would have more opportunities with Insecure on their résumés.Īs for the decision to end with five seasons, it’s a call Rae and Penny made from the very start of the series. Showrunner Prentice Penny said that from his perspective, he hopes that behind-the-scenes progress is particularly where the show makes a lasting impact.
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Of bringing the series to a close, Rae said, “We always talked about this journey that we wanted to follow from being insecure to being comfortable in your insecurities to being securely insecure,” and after making history for its representation of Black culture in front of and behind the camera, she hopes people remember that Insecure “was for us, by us and opened the doors for a lot of your faves.” I’m so grateful I got to work with these amazing people, and I’m in celebration mode.”
“And then literally filming myself crying on the way to set like, ‘What is wrong with me?’ It caught me. “I had been talking a lot of shit all season, like people asking me, ‘Is it going to be bittersweet?’ And I was like, ‘More sweet than bitter!'” Rae joked.
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'Dopesick,' 'Insecure' Among TV Academy Honors RecipientsĪfter five career-making years, both for her and much of the cast, Rae said those last days on set were surprisingly emotional.
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