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Joshua Radin “The Fear You Won’t Fall”… from Grey’s Anatomy Soundtrack

Just what is it about Grey’s Anatomy? There’s McDreamy of course - but then hey, recent fortune offers up a stellar group of good looking male actors gracing the tube. No, it’s not all about him. It’s more about the whole ensemble cast and what each of them brings to the table – not only operating table - in this Seattle hospital based drama.

This is a dramatic serial that focuses cleverly on the ups and downs of everyday traumas in the workplace, strongly affected by the everyday relationships of those on board – or on-call, as this venue demands. Who is involved with whom, and how does it affect as well as infect the work at hand?

International Movie Data Base describes Grey’s Anatomy as “A drama centered on the personal and professional lives of five surgical interns and their supervisors.” More simply, with the tagline: Operations. Relations. Complications.

Complicated certainly describes many of Grey’s Anatomy’s operations. Take a recent episode involving a kid, a steep driveway and a luge, cleverly titled ‘I Am a Tree’; you may not want to know. Complicated too, are the relationships of the patients; the staff involved with the patients; the relationships of the staff involved with the staff involved; as well as the relationships of the patients involving themselves with the staff involved.

Enhancing all this drama is a soundtrack that sneaks up on you and manages to subliminally hook you on tunes that repeat themselves in your head, long after the episode has ended. Humming a new tune all week keeps the show fresh in your mind and unobtrusively creates a need for the next episode. The soundtrack has also done more than its share to establish this particular series as the one by which all the new fall series have fashioned themselves after. Watch out for cool tunes embracing cool people in cool, or not, situations. Whatever the emotional plotline, these new series offer up a tune to enhance the theme.

With strong storylines, likeable characters and trendy musical backdrops, television drama seems to be reinventing itself. Grey’s Anatomy has led the way.

Devorah Macdonald is a freelance writer living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her professional career began as a disc jockey in California, Seattle and her hometown of Vancouver BC.

Vancouver Magazine, in an article titled ‘Video Vixen’, hailed her as having “the best female voice in radio locally,” going on to compare her world-weary delivery with Linda Ellerbee, formerly of the ‘Today Show’ and the award winning ‘Nick News’.

A ten-year retirement devoted to creating three children, “one of each,” according to Macdonald, now allows time write on music, movies and television.

Her most recent creation, “Peggy Lee to Pink,” a radio formatted show under development subtitled “Top That Taylor” - a missive to teen percussionist and discographer daughter Taylor - promises to offer many future music reviews.

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