The song is a cautionary tale about a woman whose life gradually falls apart, with lyrics like: Oh mother tell your children Not to do what I have done Spend your lives in sin and miseryĬonsidering Maeve’s reverie about her daughter and he plan to break free from the park in this episode, cliche gives way to a kind of recognizable resonance that just works. It would betray the very idea of hiding little audible easter eggs if each didn’t at least tangentially relate to what was happening, and in that way “House of the Rising Sun” being soundtracked to another one of Maeve’s transcendental morning walks is a perfectly legitimate choice.
Its surprising that it took as long as “Trace Decay” for Westworld to include a player piano version of “House of the Rising Sun.” The oft-covered traditional (made popular by the electric blues rendition by The Animals) is a bit cliche, but basically so are all the other contemporary interpolations on the show. The ‘Westworld’ Soundtrack Power Rankings Each week we’ll add the latest awesome songs to this list, until we’ve creating a ranking a season’s worth of old-timey takes on a modern standard. And thanks to a dope soundtrack, it also exists in a nebulous place in time, somewhere (somewhen?) postmodern but also aged, like Wild Wild West but good.Īside from composer Ramin Djawadi’s haunting opening theme, Westworld is poised to hammer out some killer diegetic and non-diegetic riffs. It exists at the intersection of horror, technology, and existentialism. But whereas Game of Thrones tries to emphasize the faux-medieval machinations of its ensemble cast, Westworld imbues Wild West action with philosophical musings. Abrams, the show intends to be the network’s next water cooler phenomenon.
Developed by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and executive produced by J.J. There are a million things to say about HBO’s thematically rich new series Westworld, and that’s pretty much the point.
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