Maeve’s next act is one of resistance - she breaks out of her loop, takes control of the narrative, and orchestrates both the music and the scene at the same time. Once Maeve decides to recruit her army, the player piano kicks in with the first female song of the series, Amy Winehouse’s “ Back to Black.” Even though we don’t hear the lyrics, they seem appropriate for Maeve: “I died a hundred times … You go back to her and I go back to black.” It could be a commentary on both how the hosts are expected to die, over and over, as well as having their memories wiped each time.

So her relationship to Clementine doesn’t really matter.” Her whole consciousness and awareness is happening more and more, and she’s realizing that the host body doesn’t really matter, that they’re replaceable. “She realizes the whole thing is just a loop, and it doesn’t really matter,” Djawadi said. (Is it a coincidence that the song is about the regrets of spending time in a brothel in New Orleans, just as Maeve’s “memory” tells her it’s a place she’s been before?) It just does something to us that nothing else can do, other than music.”Īs we’d suspected, we also get more confirmation that the saloon’s player piano is as much of a signal to the hosts as it is to the guests: The Animals’ version of “ House of the Rising Sun” plays just as a reprogrammed Maeve begins to understand how Delos has replaced Clementine using a new host. “The great power of music is that something subconsciously happens when you listen to a piece of music, even if you don’t pay full attention to it. “The music is being controlled, and it’s being chosen for a reason,” show composer Ramin Djawadi said. Ford calls the song “an old trick from an old friend,” suggesting that the music choice comes from Arnold, and that the trigger is strong enough to overpower the host’s cognition. We see the song listed on Ford’s tablet when he calms down an overwrought Maeve during a moment when she’s not responding to verbal commands. In this week’s episode of Westworld, we find out that Debussy’s “ Reverie” is connected to the programming of the hosts. Following each week’s episode of Westworld, show composer Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones ) will be Vulture’s guide to the music.

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