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Yet one rule is strictly observed: All of the music has to be ambient, meaning it has to be justified by a source within the scene, either a boom box or a stereo or a car radio or a band belting it out in a bar that doesn't even have a stage...
Until those final moments, all of the music must exist within the reality of the scenes. As reality often dictates — life being the stuff that happens while you're busy making other plans, according to John Lennon — nothing should perfectly match.
"If the lyrics are dead-on with what [the story] is trying to say, it's redundant," said Simon. "Instead, we try to speak to mood and tonality, but obliquely, particularly in regard to lyrics."
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The Wire: Truth Be Told, by Rafael Alvarez
Introduction by David Simon, with contributions by Laura Lippman, George Pelecanos, Anthony Walton and Joy Lusco Kecken
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