This all began when Juan Cristóbal Tapia de Veer sat down with the New York Occasions on April 2, 2025, earlier than the season 3 finale aired to air his grievances towards Mike White. It was then that Tapia de Veer confirmed that, regardless of having scored “The White Lotus” for 3 seasons and writing its theme songs, he would not be again for future installments.
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“I really feel like this was, , a rock ‘n’ roll band story,” Tapia de Veer advised interviewer Callie Holtermann. “I used to be like, OK, this is sort of a rock band I have been in earlier than the place the guitar participant does not perceive the singer in any respect.”
Not solely that, however apparently, Tapia de Veer did not immediately inform White he did not need to come again to the present (which, if I am being trustworthy, is shady as hell). “It is form of bizarre proper now as a result of I introduced to the staff a number of months in the past that I used to be not coming again, that I used to be leaving,” Tapia de Veer revealed. “I did not inform Mike for numerous causes; I needed to inform him simply on the finish for the shock and no matter. Besides I advised the entire editorial staff and music editor and producer and all that, however I did not suppose that they had been going to inform him. Sooner or later he heard about that.”
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Tapia de Veer, like White after him, did not maintain again in regards to the artistic variations that led to his determination to depart the mission, honing in on a number of issues. First, he alleged that White did not just like the season 1 theme track and tried to chop it; then, when the season 2 theme “Renaissance” went majorly viral, Tapia de Veer needed to construct upon that track for the season 3 title theme, “Enlightenment.” Tapia de Veer additionally claimed that he needed to present the present the model that had, as he put it, the “ooh-loo-loo-loos,” which is smart should you’re even passingly conversant in both of those themes. White, nonetheless, had different concepts. “However then Mike lower that — he wasn’t pleased about that,” Tapia de Veer said.
“I imply, it’s what it’s,” Tapia de Veer added, sounding very very similar to he doesn’t imagine it’s what it’s. “You realize, I used to be watching the Emmys, and it is like, there’s one factor I am fairly pleased with and that’s I really feel like I by no means gave up. Possibly I used to be being unprofessional, and for certain Mike feels that I used to be all the time unprofessional to him as a result of I did not give him what he needed. However what I gave him did this, — did these Emmys, folks going loopy.”
“The White Lotus,” which can make use of a unique composer sooner or later, is streaming on Max now. You possibly can see how we ranked the present’s first three seasons right here.
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