No, your ears aren't enjoying methods on you — Love Is Blind season 8 makes use of actual songs for the primary time ever.

From the opening montage within the premiere enjoying a dramatized model of REO Speedwagon's "Can't Struggle This Feeling," to the ballad "All My Life" by Okay-Ci & JoJo enjoying over a romantic second, to present hits from Justin Bieber and Billie Eilish and so many extra, the Netflix actuality courting collection has flipped the script musically. Whereas some transitions nonetheless use generic one-liner jingles, the addition of actual pop and R&B love songs within the episodes is one thing the franchise has by no means accomplished earlier than — and onerous to disregard whereas watching. However Love Is Blind creator/govt producer Chris Coelen tells Leisure Weekly that it was time for a change.

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"It's our fifth anniversary of the present initially premiering, and clearly it's a present that wears its coronary heart on its sleeve," Coelen tells EW. "It's a present about love, and the music is a giant a part of the present. We felt that we should always use a few of the nice love songs. It's definitely under no circumstances a whole listing of nice love songs, however we felt prefer it was a extremely nice approach to simply promote love."

And Coelen is worked up to announce that the present will function its first stay efficiency this season too. "Throughout the reunion, we're going to have our first ever musical efficiency, which goes to be tremendous thrilling," he says. "The concept of music and love and celebration continues to be a giant theme for us all through the season, and hopefully for seasons to return."

Since season 8, that includes 32 singles from Minnesota, premieres on Valentine's Day, the creator wished to make use of music to make this installment really feel extra romantic than ever. "It looks like only a cool approach to rejoice the whole lot that the present is about with a few of the best love songs via the years," Coelen provides. "I prefer it, the songs that we've chosen are enjoyable and so evocative, and in the proper moments, with the proper music in the proper place, I believe it provides a complete different degree to the expertise of having fun with the present, which, for the viewers, is what it's all about."

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And it's one thing that might "probably" proceed into future seasons as properly — regardless of the hefty price ticket that comes with getting the rights to make use of widespread songs on TV. "It undoubtedly makes it costlier, sure, completely," Coelen admits with amusing. "It does. However it's value it — I felt prefer it was a worthwhile expense, as a result of in the end all of our decisions stem from making an attempt to offer an ideal expertise to our contributors, and that's No. 1, all the time. After which No. 2, to offer an ideal expertise for the viewers, and if we will do this higher, then I'm all the time going to lean into that, and inclusion of these songs offered a tremendous further aspect. So I'd completely like to proceed to [do that]."

As Coelen and his manufacturing staff at Kinetic Content material edited season 8 and selected songs for every episode, in addition they ended up with an extended listing of songs that they weren't ready to make use of … but. "There are such a lot of songs that we'd love to make use of, there's songs the place it cleared however we simply haven't discovered the proper place for it," he provides. "In order that's, once more, another excuse why I'm tremendous excited to proceed to make use of nice music by unbelievable artists into the longer term."

The primary six episodes of Love is Blind season 8 are streaming now on Netflix. Episodes 7-9 debut Friday, Feb. 21, episodes 10-11 come out Friday, Feb. 28, and the finale streams Friday, March 7.

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