The pair were longtime friends - classmates at Queensland Conservatorium of Music and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School - and had been collaborating since they were teenagers. When executive producer Daley Pearson invited him to come on board as the show’s composer, Bush hesitated. “But even before music, the episodes hit me really hard, and it’s hard work to match that with the music it’s a lot of emotional energy, but it’s worth it.”īush is the inspiration, and voice, behind the character Busker. “I love Joe Brumm's answer to this question: ‘You’re parents, and you’re tired, of course you’re going to cry,’” he laughs. His genuine enthusiasm for his work is evident in the thoughtfulness of his answers, even when I cheekily ask him how he feels knowing Bluey routinely makes full-grown adults cry on a daily basis, in no small part due to the emotionally weighty score. Throughout our conversation, Bush is lively and animated (no pun intended, though you can in fact see him in animated form as the tertiary character “Busker”). The hour is both a gracious courtesy he’s extended to me - 15 time zones away in Connecticut - and a personal preference: “I’m a bit more alive now,” he assures me. at his home in Brisbane, Australia as he speaks to me via Zoom. “You think it was hard for you? I have to watch that 200 times making it! I was just mess after!” This of course, brings us to the subject of “Sleepytime” - a fan-favorite episode about a child balancing her desire for independence with her continued need for her mother via a whimsical, celestial dream sequence, made all the more moving by its soaring original arrangement of Gustav Holst’s “Jupiter.” “I cry like an infant every time my family watches that episode,” I tell him. There’s always something, it seems, that makes me well up (best case scenario) or cry myself into an emotionally unstable puddle (a common occurrence). It isn’t long into my interview with Bluey composer Joff Bush that I make a confession: like many parents, I cry pretty much every episode.
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