{"id":491150,"date":"2019-10-11T08:09:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=896973"},"modified":"2019-10-11T08:09:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:09:10","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-pusha-t-and-hbos-succession-are-the-media-merger-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-pusha-t-and-hbos-succession-are-the-media-merger-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Pusha T and HBO\u2019s \u2018Succession\u2019 Are the Media Merger of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Schadenfreude may be universal, but the keen, delightful unease of watching HBO<\/a>\u2019s Succession<\/a><\/em> \u2014 whose second season wraps this Sunday evening \u2014 is particularly amplified for anyone who works in media, the industry of total chaos over which the show\u2019s magnificently out-of-touch plutocrats preside. In response to deep obsession and\/or deep psychological tumult brought on by the year-and-a-half run of the show, journalists have turned the Roy family empire into a sea of content, quizzes, and memes of their own.<\/p>\n

The latest addition to the Succession<\/em> spin-off media world carries a higher profile: \u201cPuppets,\u201d an HBO-sanctioned remix of the show\u2019s instrumental theme song from rapper and G.O.O.D. Music president Pusha T<\/a> and composer Nicholas Britell. \u201cPuppets\u201d is bold, brash, and melodically unsettled, just like the original Britell track underneath it. It manages to be catchy but not kitschy, escaping the usual trap into which so many other media-of-media works have fallen. In teasing the remix<\/a> earlier this week on social media, Pusha called it the \u201csoundtrack to my life.\u201d<\/p>\n