The music in Bridgerton is basically a character at this point. The strings walk into the ballroom before any man does, and honestly? They usually have more emotional range.
For season four, showrunner Jess Brownell told PEDESTRIAN.TV how those needle-drops actually get chosen, and why some songs — including the ones you scream‑request on TikTok edits — will never make it into the Ton.
Jess straight‑up said, “I can’t take credit for all the songs in the show”, to P.TV because so much of it starts with music supervisor Justin Kamps, who “provides all of us editors and producers with playlists at the beginning of the season”. That means before anyone even sits down in an edit bay, they’re already marinating on potential pop‑to‑string bangers.
Editors and directors then start dropping tracks against scenes, and by the time those cuts land on Jess’ desk, “often I’m already like, ‘Yeah, you’ve done it. Like, that’s the song’”.
When it isn’t the song, the team goes back to Justin, ask for more options and quietly pit them against each other until one actually earns the right to soundtrack a slow‑mo stare across a crowded ballroom.
There’s also a surprisingly savage rule about recognisability. Jess said some tracks they genuinely loved ended up getting cut because they were “too instantly recognisable”. She pointed out that “some songs, their intros just have like a really strong beat and it takes you out of the scene, I think, if you can recognise it right away”.
She admitted there were songs that were “almost like too good; it was too much about the song”, so even though they loved them, they had to go because the moment suddenly became about the beat drop rather than the characters.
Here are some songs we know have made the cut this season:
The rules don’t mean the cast have stopped manifesting their own dream cues. When asked which Australian anthem deserves the full Bridgerton treatment, season four’s new leading lady — Yerin Ha said, “There’s a new song right now that I really think is such an anthem, and I think it’s by… is it Keli Holiday? ‘Dancing2’? Yeah, I really think it’s just such a bop. I think it’s really such a spirit song. I’d like to see that.”
This season’s leading man, Luke Thompson, immediately jumped in with, “Any Sia songs?”
Even with suggestions coming from inside the cast, every song still has to pass the same brutal test Jess laid out: if it deepens the fantasy without hijacking the scene, it might waltz into the Ton. But if it drags your brain into name‑that‑tune mode the second the intro hits, it is absolutely not getting an invite to the ball.
To see which artist got an invite to share their music regency styles you can check out part one of Bridgerton season four on January 29 on Netflix.
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