What It's Like to Compose for Netflix From the Inside
I compose the score for Leanne, Chuck Lorre's Netflix sitcom starring Leanne Morgan. Keb' Mo' called me to lead the team. Here's what it actually feels like from the inside.
I Compose the Score for Leanne on Netflix.
Here's What Season 2 Felt Like.
I'm Lauren Lucas. I sing the theme song for Leanne, Chuck Lorre's Netflix sitcom starring Leanne Morgan. I also compose the music for the show (and if I’m doing it right, you don’t even notice the music, you only feel it). I’m wrapping up the music for Season 2 this week.
Not a bad room to be in. Leanne Morgan and Keb' Mo' in L.A. at the Season 1 wrap party of Leanne on Netflix
Season 1 was already a full-circle moment. Keb' Mo' (one of my genuine musical heroes) was hired by Chuck Lorre to compose the music for the show. He called me to lead the team of musicians actually making it. I sing the main title theme. I compose the instrumental cues between scenes. Even though this was a new way of making music for me, it starting feeling like the reason I moved to Nashville 27 years ago.
Season 2 felt even better.
Here's what I've learned watching Keb' work: the man will walk into a session, play one bass note, pull out a single snare hit, and the entire piece transforms. Not because he's doing more. Because he knows exactly where the music needs to breathe. That's a lesson I will carry for the rest of my career.
By Season 2, our whole team had found that same language together. We understood what Chuck wanted. We understood each other. The deadlines were still real. The stakes were still high. But the work felt less like pressure. The experience felt like we found a purpose.
That doesn't happen often. I’m not taking it for granted.
Season 2 of Leanne launches late summer on Netflix. When you watch it, you'll hear what that kind of collaboration actually sounds like.
If you want to get closer to the songs — the ones that never made an album, the ones written in little rooms that nobody else ever saw — that's what The Inner Listening Room is for. One vault song a month, with the story behind it. Eight songs are already waiting inside.
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Lauren Lucas is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter and composer. She sings the main title theme and composes the score for Leanne, Seasons 1 and 2, on Netflix. She is a former Warner Bros. recording artist with a 27-year Nashville catalog.
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