“It’s got a slight Kurt Weill vibe to it, but it’s still kind of bluesy without being a blues song.' Read Mick Jagger on “Strange Game,” the dusky, mysterious theme song for Apple TV+’s 'Slow Horses':
Jagger found the challenge of writing the song easier than expected since he’d already read three or four books in Herron’s Slough House series. “They’re kind of a new take on spy stories,” he says. “It’s sort of an anti–John le Carré or anti–James Bond. … I’ve always liked that genre, and it’s always nice to see it get slightly reinvented.” When Jagger heard Pemberton’s music, it all clicked together.
When Jagger first heard the song, though, it was only an instrumental — a repeated theme without any obvious place for a chorus. So he demoed some vocals on his iPhone for Pemberton’s approval and headed into the studio to get in the mood. “I was trying to think, ‘Oh, this is going to be a quite sleazy feeling,'” he says, reflecting on the source material. “I know it’s going to be, like, grim-looking London.
“[The characters] are all failures,” he says. “So we don’t really know what the Gary Oldman character is up to. He’s obviously a failure, otherwise, he wouldn’t be in this position. … He’s given these mostly young people that have made some really bad mistake early in their career and, on one hand, he treats them like shit, and, on the other hand, he has a paternalistic feel from them. Deep down he wants them to do better somehow.
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