{"id":35392,"date":"2021-12-24T23:11:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T05:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=35392"},"modified":"2021-12-24T23:12:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T05:12:16","slug":"briefly-interview-with-danny-elfman-about-music-for-the-nightmare-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=35392","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Interview with Danny Elfman about music for \u2018The Nightmare Before Christmas\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jack-nightmare-before-christmas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35393\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jack-nightmare-before-christmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jack-nightmare-before-christmas.jpg 920w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jack-nightmare-before-christmas-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jack-nightmare-before-christmas-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wr6N_hZyBCk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/a>\u201d really a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie? It\u2019s both, making it a delightful mashup of themes and images from two very different holidays. Although Danny Elfman\u2019s score was nominated for several different awards, Elfman wasn\u2019t a typical composer for film scores. Up until he started working on films with Tim Burton, Elfman had been a rock-and-roll artist best known as the leader of the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the 1980s. Just this week, I heard an interview on the podcast Song Exploder on which Elfman explains how he came to write the music for the movie, including why he approached the music for the film very differently than he had approached writing rock music. I enjoyed the 20-minute interview and if you happen to love the film, this Christmas would be the perfect time to learn more about how the score came to be. Tap or click below to listen. <a href=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/danny-elfman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is \u201cThe Nightmare Before Christmas\u201d really a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie? It\u2019s both, making it a delightful mashup of themes and images from two very different holidays. Although Danny Elfman\u2019s score was nominated for several different awards, Elfman wasn\u2019t a typical composer for film scores. 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