While the subject matter and twists of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast are enough to keep you going, the Netflix series certainly doesn’t shy away from its fair share of epic needledrop moments.
The music of the series is one of the main draws of the new Lisa McGee comedy-drama, with tracks from the likes of B*Witched, Atomic Kitten, S Club 7 and Tatu transporting us right back to our younger years. There’s also, much to McGee‘s personal delight, plenty of Girls Aloud – a group with Derry connections (Nadine Coyle) that McGee couldn’t have used in seminal comedy series Derry Girls due to the timeline.
Chatting exclusively to RadioTimes.com, McGee said: “I think because Girls Aloud has a Derry girl in it, that felt fun to sort of work that in. Some of the tracks in Derry Girls that we had to use, we cut off at ’98. So Girls Aloud, I could never use. I was like ‘Well, I’m using them now – all the time!’.”
As for whether the music of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast was actually written into the show, McGee revealed: “So, some of them are in the script because they’re like, you so need that! Like Hot In Herre, you definitely need that for that bit to work.
“There’s three types of music. There’s the composed kind of atmospheric, creepy music, which is like Sion Trefor, our composer. Then there’s tracks that were written by Gary Lightbody and Iain Archer that are emotional, that pop up when something very emotional is happening for the gang. Then there’s the commercial retro, just bangers that are literally me, the execs and [director] Mike [Lennox] sitting on our phone going, ‘Remember this, try this’.
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