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Heartstopper could afford a Taylor Swift sync because she thought the scene was “beautiful”
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 8 August 2023
A music supervisor who works on Netflix’s ‘Heartstopper’ has said that the programme was able to secure the rights to include Taylor Swift track ‘Seven’ in its second series at an affordable rate because the musician thought the scene in which it appeared was “beautiful”.
That information came via a response to a tweet, posted shortly after the second series of ‘Heartstopper’ became available on Netflix, which mused that the show must have a pretty big music budget if it’s able to afford to sync in a Swift track.
“’Heartstopper’ got Taylor Swift, they got big bucks”, a fan of the show tweeted. But not so, music supervisor Matt Biffa responded, adding: “She just thought the scene was beautiful and we were then able to make it work”.
The scene, Pink News explains, sees the characters of Darcy and Tara “say, for the first time, that they love each other, after the former bared all about her turbulent relationship with her mother. Swift’s soothing ‘Seven’, taken from her critically acclaimed album ‘Folklore’, plays softly in the background”.
Having seen Biffa’s response, another fan of the show tweeted: “So you mean [with] this ‘Heartstopper’ scene … that highlights sapphic love and absolute queer joy, she was willing to get less money because she thought it was beautiful and her song would be perfect for it?”
To which Biffa responded: “Sometimes art is more important than $$$”.
Which is all kinds of lovely isn’t it? Unless this is Biffa’s coded way of telling the sync licensing teams of the music industry “our budgets aren’t that mega, OK?” You know, with a third series of ‘Heartstopper’ now going into production.
