Photo: Heidi Gutman/Peacock If Peacock’s new musical-comedy series Girls5eva were a painting, it’d still be wet, says its creator Meredith Scardino over the phone a day after its debut. “Like, we just finished it.”
Somehow, though, all of Girls5eva’s constraints feel rather fitting for a show about five women who, on the cusp of Y2K, were Frankensteined together by a guy who is just a step above the Ponzi-scheming boy-band manager Lou Pearlman. Despite the Herculean task in front of the show’s creative team, all nine songs on the Girls5eva soundtrack are really catchy. “Not in a Kars4Kids way?” Scardino asks with concern, referencing the torturous Kidz-Bop-on-steroids commercial jingle. No, more like in a Lay’s potato chips way. I betcha can’t listen just once to these bops that make good on the earworms of the late ’90s/early aughts.
While Scardino had written the entire “Famous 5eva” chorus into the pilot’s script, she hadn’t yet worked up any verses. “I went to Meredith and said, ‘We have to finish this song because we have to show the people above us that we know what we’re doing,’” Richmond says. He ended up writing dummy lyrics that referenced things that were big in 1999, like flip phones and Wayne Brady. “Nobody had time to replace them,” he says. “So they stuck.
Key, too, were the out-of-fashion early-aughts references like “eyebrows thin, bronzer thicker” and “whale tails peekin’” out of their “low-rise jeans with a one-tooth zipper.” The show’s writers would write verses about film bros mansplaining Quentin Tarantino’s genius and female stand-ups being a real drag “and be like, ‘Let’s write more. How fun is this?’” she says.
It’s the most personal song Scardino wrote, thanks to its real-life references to her son. “We don’t live in a building with a doorman anymore, but he was always such buddies with ours,” she says. John Slattery’s cameo in episode three, the same one in which the song debuts, was also quite special to her. She often sees the Mad Men star and his only son walking around downtown New York City together: “They always seem like best friends. I always think, ‘This is so great.
Richmond believes that “I’m Afraid” is “Meredith’s triumph,” and was one of his favorites to work on. “It just tickles me,” he says. “I love taking these trivial fears and making them huge and sweeping and symphonic.” He even upped the production value on one of his favorite lines, the one about 80-year-old Dawn worrying her scalp will be fully visible when the sun shines through her “salmon-colored hair,” by adding an extra string section.
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You're just assuming the songs are catchy and whimsical without providing any proof.
I knew 4 Stars was written by sarabareilles. It just sounds so much like her and it’s my favorite song on the album.
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