Hrishikesh Hirway On Taking 'Song Exploder' To Netflix
The documentary series, an adaptation of Hirway's popular podcast, asks musicians including Alicia Keys and R.E.M to tell the step-by-step story of how a song was created.
The podcast Song Exploder lets your favorite musicians tell you how they made your favorite songs. Now, host Hrishikesh Hirway is showing you that story, via a new version of the show adapted for Netflix. Each episode starts at the beginning — the very first moment of inspiration. Then we get to see each layer: the percussion, the bass line, the lyrics.
"I think one of the things that always been really important to me about is the feeling of intimacy that you get from the artist when they're talking about what inspired their song and the decisions they made to bring it to life,"
