Talk:Interview with the Vampire (Original Television Series Soundtrack)/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 22:27, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:27, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Images are appropriately licensed. Earwig shows no issues.
 * What makes the following reliable sources?
 * filmmusicreporter.com
 * ✅ Couldn't find any info, so I deleted info from that ref.


 * perspectiveforum.net
 * ✅ Changed the ref.
 * moviemusicuk.us -- this is a blog
 * The writer, Jonathan Broxton, is not only a member, but also the president of International Film Music Critics Association, whose experience can be found here. His reviews have been cited in other Good Articles, such as Black Panther (soundtrack). Other websites wrote by other members are also cited in GA articles, such as Tracksounds on Game of Thrones: Season 1 (soundtrack). - Yolo4A4Lo (talk) 02:51, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Spotchecks -- footnote numbers refer to this version:
 * FN 12 cites "Steve Greene of IndieWire listed Hart's work as the eighth best TV score of 2022, stating that Hart provided "both tragedy and romance" and could "tiptoe his way between something full and fierce and a haunting music-box feel"." Verified, but "both" is not inside the quote marks; I fixed this in the article.
 * Thank you.

I'll pause the review here, and continue once the above issues are addressed. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:25, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * FN 3 cites "Daniel Hart was announced to score Interview with the Vampire in September 2022." Verified.
 * FN 2 cites "In an interview with ScreenRant, Hart said that his experience in writing from other perspectives and in other styles while scoring for The Green Knight (2021) had helped him writing in Lestat's point of view. Hart also chose "Vicious" as his personal favorite track from the soundtrack": Verified, but "writing songs from other perspectives and in other styles" is in the source, so this is too close paraphrasing and needs to be rephrased.
 * This is now rephrased to "writing in different perspectives and styles" which is still too close to the original. A good rule of thumb is you shouldn't be able to tell by looking at the source whether that was the particular source the information was taken from.  Here it sounds like the same phrase with a word or two substituted.
 * FN 20 cites "The series also featured song "Home Is Where You’re Happy" by the American criminal and musician Charles Manson at the end of the episode "A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart", which was listed in Vulture's top 10 best use preexisting pop music on TV in 2022." The source doesn't identify the episode, as far as I can see.
 * ✅ Added ref mentioning both the song and the episode. - Yolo4A4Lo (talk) 02:51, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Added ref mentioning both the song and the episode. - Yolo4A4Lo (talk) 02:51, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Since there were a couple of issues that had to be fixed with spotchecks, I'm going to do a couple more: I'm going to stop here and fail the article; I would suggest going through every citation and making sure there is no close paraphrasing and that the citation fully supports the material in the article before resubmitting. I would also suggest a copyedit -- I saw several places where there was clearly a word or two missing or out of place. Examples: "by sharing "palette library" of music", "his personal favorite track from the soundtrack, which violin solo performed by". Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:32, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
 * FN 8 cites "which violin solo performed by Synchron Stage's concertmaster Damir Oraščanin". Verified.
 * FNs 1 & 2 cite "Hart and Jones spoke at length on what kind of instrumentation, melodies, and rhythms would suit the three main characters best, by sharing "palette library" of music they were each interested in, with regard to the time period the characters lives in and their desire to reflect the music of New Orleans in 1910, especially African-American contributions to it." The source has "from what instrumentation, melodies, and rhythms would suit them best" and "this desire to have the music in some ways reflect the music of New Orleans in 1910, and especially African American contributions to that music".  This is almost identical to the source.
 * FN 2 cites "A classically trained violinist, Hart played sixty percent of strings in the Vienna orchestra and the rest of the strings in the score". The source has "You're a classically-trained violinist ... it's about 60% an orchestra in Vienna that we recorded, and then the rest of the time, if there are strings, it's me."  This is both inaccurate -- the source says sixty percent of the time it's the orchestra, not Hart -- and too closely paraphrased.
 * FN 2 cites "The latter and "For a Young Violinist" were featured in the series as songs Lestat wrote for his lovers." I don't see any mention of "For a Young Violinist" in the soruce.
 * FNs 2 & 3 cite "stating that Jones is "one of the best people to work for" and knows more about experimental and contemporary classical music than anyone he's ever met in Hollywood". The source has "He knows more about contemporary classical music and contemporary experimental, classical music than anybody in Hollywood that I’ve ever met."  This is almost identical to the source.