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Mean Girls, has added to his accomplishments with Peacock’s
Girls5eva. Richmond, who also produces the show with wife Tina Fey, composed the musicalcomedy’s funny, catchy original songs in collaboration with series creator and lyricist Meredith Scardino. In talking about their partnership, Richmond tells
The A.V. Club that it was a dream, and Scardino took charge of the lyrical content: “She knows how to find the joke within the style we are trying to emulate of this ’90s girl group.”
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The show centers on four women trying to revive their once famous band called Girls5eva. Richmond says the process of working on the songs was a collaborative give-and-take, and that they were inspired by Spice Girls, En Vogue, and Destiny’s Child, among others. The pair previously worked on Fey and Robert Carlock’s
The A.V. Club she was interested in writing about women in her age group, and she spent time thinking about the most intriguing setting to tell stories about female friendships. “I noticed how girl groups were reuniting. I saw the Spice Girls were doing a tour without Posh, and it occurred to me that I grew up in a time when there were all these other boy and girl bands who were a blip for a second and then they were gone,” Scardino says. With
Girls5eva, she was excited to explore the possibilities of this band getting another chance at being relevant.