The Felicity, Dawson’s Creek & 90210 Music Restoration Project

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by the creator of @felicityrestorationproject to chat about one of the greatest issues of our time - the replacement of music on our beloved nineties TV shows - FELICITY, DAWSON’S CREEK & 90210. We discuss legalities of the music licensing issue, painstakingly digitizing scenes with correct music from VHS tapes and Paula Cole striking a new deal for “I Don’t Wanna Wait.” Plus: the lore of Felicity writer Riley Weston, legacy of the Keri Russell / Felicity haircut, Sarah McLachlan, Peter Gabriel, Roxy, Mazzy Star, Aimee Mann & more!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives and I am here with Sean who is the
0:20.0	mastermind behind the Felicity Restoration Project. Now I have talked a bit on this
0:27.3	show about well first of all about felicity because I've watched it from the pilot
0:32.2	airing of the show and something that has
0:35.7	grinded my gears over the years since for since Felicity was released on DVD is
0:41.7	that all of the music has been replaced.
0:45.0	Okay, first of all, hi Sean, how are you?
0:48.0	Good, how are you?
0:49.0	I'm good.
0:50.0	Now you are, you're in, are you in LA or just somewhere in California so I grew up in
0:54.8	Orange County I'm still in Orange County but I'm I'm LA adjacent so I'm always in
0:58.4	LA's tell everybody about this project I mean you were basically painstakingly going through every
1:06.2	single episode of Felicity and restoring the original music.
1:12.6	So I think to start, let's actually talk about the issue.
1:17.6	And it's not, it doesn't just plague Felicity.
1:20.1	This is, this pertains to so many shows like Dawson's Creek,
1:24.8	The Wonder Years, all the music was stripped out of that show,
1:28.0	like so many shows, Freaks and Geek.
1:30.9	What is the music licensing issue to begin?
1:34.8	In the 90s, I mean, you think like we were so, we thought we were modern then, right?
1:40.4	And like now we're like, wait, we weren't that modern, because I think back to I love Lucy like if you ever
1:46.0	watched that show they didn't know that there would be a re something called a rerun you know so if you think like you'll even see some plot points on that show like they redid it because they
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