Cristóbal Tapia de Veer is no longer in harmony with The White Lotus.
The composer, who has worked on the HBO series for three seasons, revealed that after a dispute about the music on the show with creator Mike White, he won’t be checking in for the show’s fourth season.
“I announced to the team a few months ago that I was not coming back, that I was leaving,” Cristóbal said during an interview with the New York Times published April 2. “I didn’t tell Mike for various reasons; I wanted to tell him just at the end for the shock and whatever. Except I told the whole editorial team and music editor and producer and all that, but I didn’t think that they were going to tell him. At some point he heard about that.”
According to Cristóbal, his and Mike’s beef began with the removal of the signature “ooh-loo-loo-loo”and “ooh-loo-loo-loos”from the opening credits score for this season which stars Patrick Schwarzenegger, Walton Goggins, Parker Posey and more. The move changed the theme song completely and left some fans of the series disappointed.