For those who aren't really informed on your career, you've been doing this for a minute now. How did you get started in the world of music supervision?



I was a publicist for rock bands and kind of got really burnt out on that and I didn't really know what I wanted to do. Then I saw the movie Iron Man and the music supervisor credit rolled by and I was like, Music supervisor... OK, that’s what I want to do. I ended up packing up all my stuff in Boston and moved out to California without knowing anyone. Very serendipitously, I met Dave Jordan, who is the music supervisor for all the Marvel films, and I told him I wanted to intern for him.' He was like 'intern? why would you want to intern' because I have been in the music industry we knew a lot of label people and music industry folks and I was just like look this is the entertainment industry nobody is going to pay me for something I don't know how to do and I have to start at the bottom and I respect that process. I was with him and his team for the summer in 2009 and it was amazing. I just learned a whole new language around music supervision.

At the end of the summer, I knew that there wasn't going to be a job there for me so I was on an email newsgroup of women in the music industry and someone posted that MTV was looking for interns in their supervision department. I was a little bit older, and I knew that all the interns were going to be college kids but you know you have to throw away your ego and I knew that I would learn and meet people. To be an intern for a company like Viacom you have to get school credit, so I just went to Los Angeles Community College, I filled out an add slip, I never went, I never paid, I was there for the internship. I interned for three days and then I got a job as a coordinator on a VH1 show and I've kind of been working ever since.

When did this whole journey with Euphoria initially start?

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At the beginning of every show I work on, I start a general inspiration playlist and that playlist started in September. So I've been on this show for a minute.

So that’s how the process starts for you? You kind of get a big playlist and just drop everything in it?

Yeah, we start with a very general playlist. It's so early in the process that we don't know exactly what the tone of the show is going to be, or the themes that are going to need music. But this playlist is for when we find cool shit, and we just throw it in there whether it's going to be used for the show or not. At this point I think we have ten hours worth of music on there. It started off there, from digging in all of the usual places — SoundCloud, Twitter, Instagram. You'd be surprised how much I can find on Instagram.

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How do you find music on Instagram?

I just follow a lot of different people — whether they're managers or just general industry people. When people post what they’re listening to on Spotify or on their Instagram stories, I take screenshots. Whenever I have downtime, I take out my phone and I go through all of the screenshots and listen to the music, and if it’s good for Euphoria it'll go in the Euphoria bin. If it’s good for one of my other shows, I'll throw it in there.