Who ought to face the music for this White Lotus musical feud? Present creator Mike White clearly doesn’t suppose he’s accountable. In a latest episode of The Howard Stern Present, White recommended that he was stunned to study that composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer advised the press they’d feuded. “I don’t suppose I ever had a combat with him, besides possibly some emails — it was mainly me giving him notes,” White insisted, occurring so as to add, “I knew he was not a workforce participant and that he needed to do it his approach or no matter, however I used to be thrown that he would go to The New York Instances to shit on me and the present three days earlier than the finale. It was type of a bitch transfer.” Tapia de Veer beforehand confirmed that he wouldn’t be returning for the fourth season in an interview with the Instances the place he acknowledged that his artistic conflicts with White over the present’s rating dated again to the primary season. When describing White’s choice to chop an prolonged, “ooh-loo-loo” model of the season-three opening theme, the composer mirrored, “We already had our final combat endlessly, I believe.”
White feels that Tapia de Veer didn’t “respect” him and thus didn’t like getting notes or revisions from him. “He needs individuals to know that he’s edgy and darkish and I’m … I don’t know, I watch actuality TV,” the Survivor alum advised Stern. He additionally famous that Tapia de Veer was an Emmy-winning composer by the point season three got here round. “And he had his music go viral, so he simply didn’t wish to undergo the method with me,” White mentioned. “He all the time had this contemptuous smirk on his face each time he was coping with me, as a result of I simply suppose he thought I used to be only a chimp or one thing.” (Hey, simply since you’re a chimp doesn’t imply you possibly can’t be a Higher Man, however we digress.) Though White did acknowledge that Tapia de Veer is “very gifted,” he additionally added, “I’ve by no means kissed any individual’s ass so exhausting to simply get him to … to guide that horse to water. Have enjoyable with no matter you’re doing subsequent.” Principally, the probabilities that these two will finally work it out on a remix appear slim.