Season flow.
LYRICS is a music driven crime show (think True Crime + Glee) as the back story, where the principle actors are muses helping people create magic in this toxic society we now live in.
Our 3 prime muses, plus cameo performances are thrown out of their element (which is to inspire people to write timeless songs) and now need to inspire a woman from the Innocence Project to get a wrongfully convicted musician off death row. Plot complications and real life drama ensue… effectively told as flashbacks and backstory.
Season 1 of Lyrics presents the primary and ever-continued story line a young man, Sparks, wrongfully convicted of murder serving hard time in the Supermax. He is on death row, learning only too well about justice up close and personal, and he is bereft of all hope. Muses work in each episode toward getting him a new trial. He is that important because he was to write an earth changing song about justice… and he has the unique ability to influence and produce other musicians who will go on to become well-loved stars in the future.
Season 2 is all about getting hostile witnesses to the trial —and with the help of our Muses, new evidence shows up, new witnesses, alibi confirmed, and in the end, exonerated and now has his freedom.
Season 3, Sparks gets a $150 million wrongful imprisonment settlement and now devotes his time to other cases, but also buys a down on its luck music house. He learns the music business is a lot like prison—ribes, violence, money, and he tries to acquire talent using a different mold. Season 3 ender shows Sparks trying to take his own life, as life in the fast lane is not at all what he hoped it to be.
Season 4, muses now working through music publishing more and more, fielding talent to “the kid” who nurtures the talent to grow to a mega biz. Shit is constantly hitting the proverbial fan. This season will feature more of the hard times musicians have writing and performing hit songs, getting them promoted, and the graft/corruption inside social media. The season 4 ender shows the CEO of the MyMusic network being dragged out of his Malibu home by the FBI with 3 “escorts”, really our muses, smiling and giving high 5’s.
Season 5—Everything falls apart, kid takes over for a while. Romantic entanglements birthed over the previous 4 seasons turn damn ugly! And the opportunity to rotate our main roster of muses.
Each episode is a trilogy:
1) The continuing story of the imprisoned, then released future music mogul.
2) A new Songwriter with terminal writer’s block who will be inspired by a muse to finally translate the feeling in her heart to lyrics on a page.
3) A new Performer who by the end of the episode, and with the influence of one of our muses, performs a new song—based on the fictional events of this same episode that follow the well known lyrical themes from the featured group of the week such as Fleetwood Mac, Journey, Rod Stewart, Elton John, etc.
Examples of Episodes that can be inspired by lyrics from famous artists:
• Episode 1—Life in the Fast Lane: featuring the music of the Eagles…
• Episode 2—Landslide: featuring the music of Fleetwood Mac & Stevie Nicks…
• Episode 3—Don’t Stop Believing: featuring the music of Journey…
• Episode 4—Saturday Night’s Alright: featuring the music of Elton John…
• Episode 5—Where The Streets Have No Name: featuring the music of U2
• Episode 6—You Can’t Always Get What You Want: featuring the music of The Stones
• Episode 7—Hollywood Nights: featuring the music of Bob Seger
In looking at the body of lyrics for these groups, the inner and outer story lines are great for adaptation to real life circumstances and situations. We will probably change the lineup, but this is a visual and audio backdrop for our basic premise that we are finding the soul of the music by telling the story behind the songs. (Loosely, perhaps, but the music will carry the theme.)
Compelling, visceral, raw, and exciting. LYRICS: THE SOUL OF MUSIC is ready to be the new global sensation, the show that connects generations through music.