What Is The Song At The Start Of Russian Doll

What Is The Song At The Start Of Russian Doll?

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Netflix’s Russian Doll is a time-loop show set during a birthday party – and that means there’s a lot of great music on the soundtrack.

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Netflix’s Russian Doll boasts an amazing soundtrack, but what exactly is the song that keeps playing every time Nadia restarts her day? A new original series for the streaming service developed by Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler, and Leslye Headland, Russian Doll follows Nadia (Lyonne), who repeatedly dies and reverts to a previous point Groundhog Day-style for unknown reasons, forcing her to repeatedly relive the same evening (and reevaluate her life in the process).

The show centers on Nadia’s 36th birthday party, with each death returning her to the same garishly decorated bathroom. As this is a party, there’s a minefield of people and things to avoid, from cocaine laced spliffs to ex-boyfriends trying to guilt trip her with their daughter – but also the potential for some genuine emotional connection. And, along with meticulously cooked chicken (for some reason), what would a party be without music? Thankfully, Russian Doll has gone all out, with a varied soundtrack and some recurring song choices that could rival Groundhog Day’s “I Got You Babe” in the timeloop genre.

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Chief among them is the opening song of Russian Doll’s first episode, which we revisit multiple times. That track is “Gotta Get Up” by Harry Nilsson, which you can listen to in full on YouTube below.

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Nilsson was a famed singer-songwriter who counted The Beatles as some of his biggest fans (he subsequently formed a close friendship with John Lennon). Released at the peak of the artist’s popularity in the 1970s, “Gotta Get Up” is a perversely upbeat song about rationalizing leaving a party, with its central lyrics saying “Gotta get up, gotta get out, gotta get home before the morning comes”. Needless to say, it’s a rather fitting frame for Russian Doll given the central event.

Other songs in the first episode of Russian Doll include “Morning After” by Ariel Pink & Weyes Blood, played during Maxine’s (Greta Lee) art show, and “Shallow Tears” by Light Asylum over the closing credits. There’s more, but most play almost indiscernible in the background. The original score of the show goes for something lighter, with mainly strings placing the action firmly in New York City.

There’s a lot more music to come across the rest of Russian Doll’s eight-episode season 1 as the series twists and turns away from and back onto its core premise, all of which are worth checking out on their own.

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Russian Doll is streaming now on Netflix.

Screen Rant’s Managing Editor, Alex Leadbeater has been covering film online since 2012 and been a permanent fixture of SR since 2016. Based in London, he oversees a global news & features team based in NY, LA and beyond. You may have also seen/heard him on the Total Geekall podcast, unaffiliated YouTube channels, BBC Radio and CBC News. Growing up in the English countryside on a mixture of Star Wars, The Simpsons and Aardman, Alex is a lifelong movie obsessive. Despite a brief jaunt in Mathematics at Durham University, film writing was always his calling. He’s covered a wide range of movies and TV shows – from digging out obscure MCU Easter eggs to diving deep into deeper meanings of arthouse fare – and has covered a litany of set visits, junkets and film festivals. He once asked Tom Cruise about his supposedly fake-butt in Valkyrie (he swore it was all real).

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