DJAWADI: The Rains of Castamere was something that we had discussed
before we even got into season two.
David and Dan said, "it needs to be beautiful.
"It needs to be haunting. It needs to be hooky."
(BAND PLAYING THE RAINS OF CASTAMERE)
BENIOFF: It's something that we've been talking about for a couple of years now
because it was so important to us that that song be recognizable to an audience
'cause no one's singing Rains of Castamere,
no one's announcing, "This is The Rains of Castamere playing now."
So we just want an audience to recognize those strands when they first hear them.
The pressure fell on Ramin Djawadi, our genius composer,
to come up with this theme last year.
(THE RAINS OF CASTAMERE CONTINUES PLAYING)
We worked on creating a theme for this song
that then also is the Lannister theme as well.
So that's something we started in season two.
It's a Lannister theme in the score, as well as in the world of the show.
You first hear it, actually, when Tyrion is walking towards his room.
You hear him whistling it, long before you've actually heard the song.
So before an audience could possibly know that that's The Rains of Castamere,
-you hear it. -(WHISTLING)
If you listen to the score, Ramin Djawadi's amazing score,
that theme, in very many different variations and permutations,
has shown up all over the show for the past two seasons.
And then it becomes important, of course, in the Blackwater episode,
you hear the Lannister guards singing it with Bronn.
ALL: (SINGING) But now the rains weep o'er his halls
BENIOFF: We were lucky to have Jerome Flynn, who's a great singer
and I think had a couple of number one singles in the UK.
The song has been pretty well established
and then we hear Cersei and Margaery talking about it in the previous episode,
and hear it again and again in the score.
WEISS: It's a song about a family that thought they could stand up to the Lannisters
and compete with the Lannisters.
And the chorus of the song says,
"Now the rains weep over their halls with not a soul to hear."
Every man, woman, and child put to the sword.
It's about being destroyed root and stem by the Lannisters
if you cross the Lannisters.
(BAND PLAYING THE BEAR AND THE MAIDEN FAIR)
DJAWADI: The wedding band play The Bear and the Maiden Fair first
so it's all good times and fun.
This raucous fun party music suddenly turns into this mournful, solo cello music.
BENIOFF: By the time they start playing that haunting cello line,
even if an audience doesn't know the name of it,
they're going to recognize those strands.
And hopefully recognize they normally associate that song with the Lannisters
and that'd be a very strange thing to be playing at a wedding
between Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey.
Once you hear that melody, you know, "Okay, this is what's coming."