SING OUT: Play Your Song for Music Supervisors

Cheryl Foliart’s career is that of a musician, graduate of USC’s music program and as a music executive for Paramount Studios and The Walt Disney Company. After joining Disney in 1990 she was promoted to Vice President of Music, and as key music executive her responsibilities encompassed all aspects of music for television movies and series produced by Walt Disney Television, Touchstone Television and ABC Studios through 2009. Beginning in 2010 Cheryl has worked independently for Disney Channel series as part of the production staff. Her credits as Music Supervisor include Shake It Up, Austin & Ally, Girl Meets World and Bizaardvark.

Cheryl is interested in songs that are generally inspired by the “Lonely Island” style of music videos, rap in nature with a hooky melody chorus. They’re meant to be funny to a tween audience – i.e., there was a song about two girls sending people the wrong emoji called “Oops! Wrong Emoji.” There was another about a science class assignment to write about an endangered species, which was a love song to a blobfish, and one more in a holiday episode about a kid grown up enough to move to the adult table for dinner but decided it was more fun at the kids’ table. Songs submitted should be for two 14-year-old singers equally featured, and should run 1:40 to 2:00. Production should be as contemporary and legit radio sounding as possible.

Mike Turner is an award-winning music supervisor, music editor and music producer for film, television, advertising and trailers. Mike also currently serves as creative and development consultant at asset management firm & music publisher, Media Creature Properties (MCP).  MCP specializes in creating and maintaining revenue-generating music departments on behalf of film/tv distributors and production companies.  Mike is a regular guest speaker/panelist at national and international music industry conferences. He is currently working on the show Jungletown for Viceland and the new David Robert Mitchell film starring Andrew Garfield and produced by the newly Oscar-winning Adele Romanski (Moonlight) and Michael De Luca (The Social Network, Moneyball, 50 Shades) as well as Chris Bender (The Hangover franchise).

Mike is looking for music released between 2009 and 2011 that sounds like radio hipster rock – like MGMT, Silversun Pickups, Cat Power.  He sometimes works on commercials and a variety of music searches, so feel free to submit uptempo songs outside the framework of hipster rock.