Metallica’s Stranger Things sync came after “we started saying yes to everything”, says Lars Ulrich
completemusicupdate.comHow do you get Metallica to agree to have one of their songs synced in you TV show? Just ask, apparently. Or so says drummer Lars Ulrich.
They’ll agree to any old nonsense.Earlier this year we heard from ‘Stranger Things’ music supervisor Nora Felder about the meticulous and protracted operation that was put in place to convince Kate Bush to allow ‘Running Up That Hill’ to be used in the latest series of the show.
Getting Metallica on board was seemingly not quite so difficult – but only because the request came at the right time.“It used to be, with Metallica, we were always the ‘no’ guys”, Ulrich tells Howard Stern. “‘Hey can we have this song for this?
Can we have that song for that?’ It was just ‘no, no, no, no, no’”.“A few years ago we kind of reversed it”, he goes on. “We did a 180.
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