the interesting thing is i believe ntb has now graduated from “i only care about this because it’s my current fixation” to “this is going to become an ongoing interest/project and reference point for everything in my life for probably years to come” which is cool because it allows me to develop other fixations such as this todd thing while also just perpetually living in nirvana the band world
the fact that stef calls him jaybird makes me think it probably started as a family nickname before he even knew matt which i know will make some people sad but if it’s true then it’s another crazy webseries real-life retcon. not only have they been friends since they were little kids but also matt nicknamed him
is anyone else slightly unnerved by jay’s aura of serenity in this video. it was one of the first ntb things i watched and it made me think he was normal
the more i think about this moment the funnier it is to me. what reason is there to specify so emphatically that the people you’re working with have to know what you’re going for. like … duh? 😭 but he HAS to explain that not just anyone can do this, you have to be deeply and spiritually on the same page, he and matt have known each other since they were kids like OK WE GET IT you understand him the most bestest and specialest of anyone in the world. omg
i haven’t seen this movie and i only sort of know what it’s about, but i’m thinking about what matt & jay have said about the soundtrack of nirvana the band being very sincere / being what’s really going on in the characters’ heads instead of making fun of them, and i feel that in this as well. like he’s a washed-up adult kid detective who won’t move on and from the outside that probably just looks stupid, but in this i still hear the kid who thinks he’s an adult, tackling his mystery-solving goals with a level of classic detective self-seriousness but also the hope/novelty/whimsy of being a kid. i’m not sure how to properly articulate it but it feels verrrry in line with the nirvana the band ethos and it makes so much sense that jay found this movie to be up his alley and was passionate about taking on the project. i’ll have to watch it soon. also the orchestration sounds like the zoo song
i've been in jay transcript land these past couple days (my already existing love for all editors across the world has only strengthened tenfold) from this x interview where he talks about his experience scoring for the kid detective, blackberry and everything in-between.
if there's any egregious spelling/grammar mistakes please just avert your eyes and pretend they do not exist. i highlighted a couple parts of what he said that i found interesting/i thought others might as well, so yeah. i also have a couple notes at the end of this post. yay :)
firstly, would like to say a delightful amount of likes, ums, kind/sort ofs, and so's have been removed. not all, but most were removed for your reading pleasure. i was gonna leave them in at first but it came to a point where it just did not make grammatical sense to do so.
i also would like to call attention to jay's trombone noises he makes. very silly :))
secondly, i guess the main thing, is that it is really nice seeing jay be very open about his struggles. he talks quite a bit about how isolating of an experience it is/can be, which makes so much sense with how niche his specialty really is, and also the fact that like it's really just a process of throwing darts at the board until you get it right. (i also found it interesting and makes sense that he shares a lot of the similar creative struggles that matt does, i.e. starting a project in the beginning/not making good on timing and then describing the process as a mountain to climb and coming out "bloody and bashed" which does feel like jay's equivalent to matt's "making a movie is incredibly and only awful/painful.")
third, i had not listened to the kid detective score prior to reading this, but went to listen to the song he repeatedly references which is called willoughbrook then. i definitely hear the romantic tones he was going for, it feels like a classic detective noir sound in the beginning but then warms up and the flute comes in and i would agree it is quite whimsical jay.
fourth, the part where he talks about matt being like mike from blackberry is sooo good. matt's already talked about how working on that movie was like his own psyche being split into 3 but hearing it from jay is pretty forward about it. this also gets into a really interesting thing how matt and jay have so many different aspects of their dynamic because in other areas they're like co-tackling the task at hand, and really with ntbts they're like co-conspirators and at the epicenter of it, but when it comes to the score that's specifically the one time that jay is like providing a service to matt? idk how to articulate it better but it's like there's a higher standard there for jay to deliver something really good, whereas in other aspects of production it might be a collaborative process of tackling the script, storyboarding, etc.
fifth, jay really talks about how scoring for him is very director-centric and majorly about understanding the movie as opposed to the music itself. this is like load-bearing jay framework to me. i really enjoyed reading "...clarity that you need to have, as just a filmmaker, or at least seeing virtually through the eyes of the filmmaker of the film. That’s what it’s all about. It’s seeing the subtext and seeing the opportunities to help support and push the narrative and emotional points of the movie that it’s trying to do." like yes!!!! yep!
okay that's all i got. i also thought it was very cool to hear a little bit about how Operation Avalanche was scored with that jazz band. Ooh! Also, before I forget Ann Phung is the same flutist who worked on Hungover Still for the live Brave Shores album and she kills it! She's AWESOME!!
i do actually just find the idea of mattjay finding out about jared and luca dating and how they would react to it really really funny but specifically because i dont think mattjay have figured out they're gay yet and every time it comes up luca is physically restraining himself trying not to tell them because jared said if theyre good documentarians they wont intervene and let them figure it out themselves but they make it so hard
crucially they are both terrible about it in vastly different ways because matt is the type of guy to go Uhh ohh 😮 trouble in paradise 😏? whenever they argue even a little but on the opposite end whenever they make any reference to it at all in front of jay hes like Just so you know I support you both completely but im not comfortable being involved in this conversation (they were not involving him in the first place)
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