[lively classical music playing] 

Alison Hammond: Have you got a favourite song, Bridgerton song? 

Jess Brownell: The one that I really fought for was Usher, "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love," because it's the meet cute, and I just thought, like, the sort of cheekiness of that song as they're meeting while not a DJ, but a string quartet is playing. 

Alison Hammond: So good. 

Jess Brownell: It felt like, you know, the Regency equivalent of a very modern thing where you kind of like develop a crush on the dance floor.

Alison Hammond: Yeah.

Jess Brownell: And who doesn't love a little Usher? 

Alison Hammond: I love a bit of Usher. What about you, Tom? 

Tom Verica: It's when Sophie, uh, gets out of the carriage for the first time at the Masquerade Ball. I just remember loving the song. It was Coldplay, "Living in Technicolor," and it had an energy of palpitation and excitement. And I wouldn't have guessed that… It's amazing how many songs that you put to classical music and instruments that bring it out in a different way. 

Alison Hammond: You know when the teenagers are dancing, and they're all the youngsters? That's one of my favourite songs.

Tom Verica: That was another song.

Jess Brownell: It's Charli XCX.

Alison Hammond: I love it.

Jess Brownell: It's "Apple."

Tom Verica: What's the title of the song?

Jess Brownell: "Apple."

Tom Verica: Oh, that's right.

Alison Hammond: It's so good.

Tom Verica: That was fantastic. 

Jess Brownell: Yeah.

Alison Hammond: Where they're all dancing. That is one of my favourite moments. 

Jess Brownell: And the song is about, like, the apple not falling too far from the tree and stuff, so it just like thematically, lyrically…

Tom Verica: It worked. 

Jess Brownell: I cried during that set piece. I could watch a spinoff show just about the teenagers and their, like, kind of coming of age. 

Alison Hammond: Why don't you do that? 

Jess Brownell: Did we just… Yeah. 

Tom Verica: Did you just…You just created something.

Jess Brownell: Let's do it.

Alison Hammond: It would so work. That was one of my favourite moments, seeing their little connections. It's so, so adorable. 

Tom Verica: And then walking down the stairs, and the boys trying to, you know. 

Jess Brownell: Bridgerton Junior. Let's go.

Alison Hammond: Bridgerton Junior. Let's do it!

[Jess laughs]

Jess Brownell: Lil' Bridgerton.

Tom Verica: It's happening. 

Alison Hammond: And then my last song I loved, uh… 

Alison Hammond and Tom Verica: ♪ I lose control ♪ 

Alison Hammond: When they're making love. Oh my God. It's so good.

Jess Brownell: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 

Alison Hammond: ♪ When you're not next to me ♪ 

Tom Verica: But it is a moment where it turns, because it's like some, like, score that's just happening, and all of a sudden, the kiss happens, and that song kicks in.

Jess Brownell: That's right.

Alison Hammond: So good.

[vibrant classical music plays]

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