Added on 12/30/08
While The O.C.'s ratings dropped with each successive season, the show maintained its ability to introduce new, hip bands to a unique audience. Artists like Alexi Murdoch, the Dandy Warhols, and Rooney evoked the West Coast to melodic effect, and The...
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While The O.C.'s ratings dropped with each successive season, the show maintained its ability to introduce new, hip bands to a unique audience. Artists like Alexi Murdoch, the Dandy Warhols, and Rooney evoked the West Coast to melodic effect, and The O.C.'s producers ultimately released six soundtracks that mixed Pacific appeal with stylish, teenaged attitude. It's no surprise, then, that the Gossip Girl series takes a similar approach, given the show's thematic similarities and shared creative team. Alexandra Patsavas, the same music supervisor who helped soundtrack The O.C. and Grey's Anatomy, is at the helm once again, picking songs that evoke the show's urban setting while ensuring that the artists included -- the Kills, Crystal Castles, the Tings Tings, etc. -- are as fashionable as the characters' wardrobes. Gossip Girl is set in New York City, nearly 3,000 miles from California's Orange County, and the music is appropriately less sunny, emphasizing synthesizers and drum machines... See less
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