When Bloom told him he was going to sing a hip-hop song about a deep love for zoos, he started watching "a ton of different videos for research." (Whether they were hip-hop videos or zoo videos remains unknown at this point. "I Go to the Zoo" is only Foster's second solo since joining the series last season as Rebecca's new boss, and he took his preparation for the song seriously. "We were talking about Nathaniel's character and how he might process hurt and upset, and I lamely sang out, 'I go to the zooooo!' That's the entirety of my contribution and one of the few times when something I said went directly into a song," McKenna says. The idea for the song, which is about Nathaniel seeking comfort at the zoo after being stood up, came during that brainstorming period. This allowed Bloom, Dolgen and Adam Schlesinger, the show's executive music producer and one of the show's songwriters, more time to brainstorm and get out ahead of the whirlwind production. This summer, in a departure from the production process of the show's first two seasons, McKenna and Bloom got together two weeks before the rest of the writers' room convened for Season 3 to lay out the themes and story arcs of the season. Scott Michael Foster, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Tyler Golden/The CW "It's interesting, because this song actually lifts out of the plot of the show rather nicely but was 100 percent inspired by an emotional low point of a character," adds Bloom. Ideally the song makes sense if you're watching it online, outside of the context of the episode." "From there we create an original music and lyric composition that works for the character within the context of that particular story. We try and pull from a genre or vibe rather than from an existing song," Dolgen tells TV Guide. ![]() "We use musical genres to set up the emotional and comedic point of view for our songs. Since we've been unable to get it out of our heads for days - and because now we also want to go to the zoo - TV Guide caught up with co-creator and star Rachel Bloom, co-creator and showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna, and supervising producer and songwriter Jack Dolgen to chat about crafting the addictive number, which, despite first impressions, is not a Drake parody, but was actually inspired by a number of hip-hop songs, including Frank Ocean's "Super Rich Kids." Basically, it's everything that makes The CW comedy one of our favorite shows week after week.Ĭrazy Ex-Girlfriend Showrunner Promises Season 3 Is Darker, But Still as Funny as Ever Recently promoted series regular Scott Michael Foster, who plays Nathaniel, Rebecca's ( Rachel Bloom) boss and love interest, follows up last season's "Let's Have Intercourse" with the equally hilarious "I Go to the Zoo." The song, which includes lines like, "I look at the monkeys their eyes look like my eyes," not only establishes the dominance of San Diego Zoo (OK, the "zoo in San Diego" for legal reasons) as the alpha of zoos, but it also reveals a deep look into Nathaniel's current emotional state.
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