This is on no small part thanks to the inclusion of modern music throughout, with the works of female pop artists being utilised to tell the story of Nan and her friends, five young American women who come to England searching for suitable matches.<\/p>\n
One particularly notable use of modern music comes in the first episode, when Taylor Swift\u2019s Nothing New plays over the scene of a debutante ball.<\/p>\n
The show\u2019s creator Katherine Jakeways, and executive producer Beth Willis, both spoke exclusively with RadioTimes.com<\/a> about this moment, and the show\u2019s use of music as a whole.<\/p> Jakeways said: \u201cIt was so thrilling, every time we tried a different track, or it was suggested to us a different track or a different artist over a particular scene or moment.<\/p>\n \u201cIt didn\u2019t happen every single time, but the ones that we\u2019ve ended up using, and particularly the Taylor Swift one over that debutante ball, the minute we saw it we were like, \u2018Oh my God, it suddenly works\u2019. Not that it was wasn\u2019t working anyway, but it just made it feel so relevant and familiar and heart-breaking.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe both burst into tears when we saw that Taylor Swift at the debutante ball. In fact, I think I still cry when I see it, or even if I just hear the song on the radio. It\u2019s such an easy way and hopefully a relatively new way of going \u2018look, they are just like us and they are feeling this emotion\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Willis added: \u201cEven though they\u2019re wearing period costumes and they\u2019re sitting in an English country pile, we wanted these girls to feel like ourselves and our friends, and clearly, having contemporary music is really going to reach out a hand through history and say, \u2018we are one in the same. We\u2019re all women, we all feel the same way\u2019.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSo really our rule of thumb was just finding music that moved us. And we were incredibly lucky that as well as licensing commercial tracks, like Taylor Swift in the first episode and she makes another appearance later on down the line, we also had bespoke tracks that were written especially for the show. They\u2019re all women artists and they all have a feminist spirit, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n The series is based on Edith Wharton\u2019s unfinished novel of the same name, and stars Kristine Fr\u00f8seth, Alisha Boe, Josie Totah, Aubri Ibrag, Imogen Waterhouse and Mad Men\u2019s Christina Hendricks.<\/p> ![\"Kristine](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/TheBuccaneersPhoto010105-036e113.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"The_Buccaneers_Photo_010105\\"\/")
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