‘The White Lotus’ intro sees major change

The HBO series, The White Lotus returned recently for its third season, which had a noticeably different intro from Season 2.

Composed by Cristobal Tapia de Veer, he previously told Variety that he had thought the intro for the second season was “terrible”, despite being loved by fans. Which is why he decided to rework it for the new season.

Adding that TikTok and YouTube were major influences for him, he said, “I think that the best song I heard in the last few years that I can remember is people harmonizing to a cat on TikTok.”

“There’s a cat, and somebody put some piano and then some girls started harmonizing, and then there’s all these versions harmonizing this cat, it’s super moving and so spontaneous and fresh that this is grabbing a lot more my attention than super-produced pop music,” he continued.

“I’m a fan of pop music, but it feels like it’s been a while that I feel like something has surprised me. So I’ve been looking a lot into these eight-second bits of music that people [are] putting together and harmonizing a cat or stupid, silliest things,” the composer elaborated further.

“To me, it’s like a gold mine, it’s just moving to me,” Veer continued, “It feels like you are actually in contact with a person.”

Season 2’s intro was titled Renaissance and featured elements from electronic dance music and classical music. The mix of different elements was meant to evoke a feeling of unease which mirrors the show’s themes.

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