‘The boys’ team written about musical song before Trump re -election

How did you make an idea of the headlines subversive? You give it to “The Boys” producing team and their songwriter, Christopher Lennertz. Showrunner Eric Kripke was inspired by FOX News experts and former Hallmark talent, which requires that the December holiday season about Christ and Christian values is again central. So his team took the idea of “putting the Christ back in Christmas” to Lennertz, and the special set piece “Vought on Ice” of season 4 was born.

We see the performance, dressed with skaters as Queen Maeve and Homelander of the show that perform triple ashes during the “nominated by Emmy nominated” let’s put the Christ back in Christmas “, dressed as Jesus descends from the ceiling. It is a spectacle, even before Homelander (Antony Starr) changes a massacre of it while he follows Hughie (Jack Quaid) through the arena. And with Tony Award -nominated Shoshana Bean and winners Andrew Rannells and James Monroe Iglehart borrow their voices, the Broadway influences are hard to miss.

Lennertz was prepared for this challenge for writing songs – he grew up like a music theater, and his recent credits are “Rogers: The Musical” by Disneyland.

“I have done tons of theater stuff lately, but all on the healthy side. I had to find out how I could get more on the edgy side,” he says. “How do we really get into the satire who has ‘the boys’? ‘The book of Mormon’ is definitely the kind of humor we went for.”

“The Book of Mormon” was perhaps the tone that Lennertz leaned for, but the most difficult part of making the song was to nail the subversive satire of “The Boys”. It requires the turning of a comic needle.

“The most challenging part for me is going far enough in the satire where it is funny, but not so clear that it’s a joke for everyone,” he says. “The Boys” has things to say about politics, about religion, about sociology and all these things, but it hides them in double grafter and satire. ”

Season 4 of “The Boys” premiered five months before the 2024 presidential elections, which means that the song was devised and written almost two years before Christian nationalism became part of the most recent Donald Trump campaign. Lennertz and the creative team did not deliberately try to predict anything, but it is also not the first time that the show has commented on current events months in advance.

“The song was written before we ever thought Trump would be chosen again. We should know better, because this is the way in which societies work when we have megalomaniacs with tons of money and campaign contributions by the richest people in the world,” says Lennertz. “It is clear that people will push agendas. One of the things we do about ‘the boys’ is saying:’ We will not resist them.

Lennertz may not have specifically focused Trump with the song, but he does not shy away from the show’s mission to stand up against bullies, whether with a smart script or one of his songs.

“One of the things we try to do with the music in the show is to always prevent it. We try to make sure that we comment on it, because that is art. That is what we do as makers to express ourselves.” The boys “do it in a raunchier, and I also think a more smart, way is the most.”