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TMC · 04-03-2025, 02:43 PM

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The composer of the theme for The White Lotus has quit the dark comedy-drama over creative differences with its creator, Mike White. According to Cristóbal Tapia de Veer, White never liked his Emmy-winning title music, preferring a chilled-out Ibiza-style track.

TMC · 04-08-2025, 03:21 PM

Mike White slams The White Lotus composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer for "b**** move" of quitting: "He didn’t respect me"

In an interview with Howard Stern this morning, White discussed the Emmy-winning Tapia de Veer's high-profile exit last week. “I honestly don’t know what happened, except now I’m reading his interviews because he decides to do some PR campaign about him leaving the show,” White said, per The Hollywood Reporter. “I don’t think he respected me. He wants people to know that he’s edgy and dark and I’m, I don’t know, like I watch reality TV. We never really even fought. He says we feuded. I don’t think I ever had a fight with him — except for maybe some emails. It was basically me giving him notes. I don’t think he liked to go through the process of getting notes from me, or wanting revisions, because he didn’t respect me. I knew he wasn’t a team player and that he wanted to do it his way. I was thrown that he would go to The New York Times to s*** on me and the show three days before the finale. It was kind of a bitch move.” White added that he struggled with de Veer during the first two seasons. “By the time the third season came around, he’d won Emmys and he had his song go viral, he didn’t want to go through the process with me, he didn’t want to go to sessions," said White. "He would always look at me with this contemptuous smirk on his face like he thought I was a chimp or something … he’s definitely making a big deal out of a creative difference.”

04-03-2025, 02:43 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 124,542	The White Lotus' Emmy-winning composer exits https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...Dstyle%20track. The composer of the theme for The White Lotus has quit the dark comedy-drama over creative differences with its creator, Mike White. According to Cristóbal Tapia de Veer, White never liked his Emmy-winning title music, preferring a chilled-out Ibiza-style track.

04-08-2025, 03:21 PM	#2
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 124,542	Mike White slams The White Lotus composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer for "b move" of quitting: "He didn’t respect me" In an interview with Howard Stern this morning, White discussed the Emmy-winning Tapia de Veer's high-profile exit last week. “I honestly don’t know what happened, except now I’m reading his interviews because he decides to do some PR campaign about him leaving the show,” White said, per The Hollywood Reporter. “I don’t think he respected me. He wants people to know that he’s edgy and dark and I’m, I don’t know, like I watch reality TV. We never really even fought. He says we feuded. I don’t think I ever had a fight with him — except for maybe some emails. It was basically me giving him notes. I don’t think he liked to go through the process of getting notes from me, or wanting revisions, because he didn’t respect me. I knew he wasn’t a team player and that he wanted to do it his way. I was thrown that he would go to The New York Times to s*** on me and the show three days before the finale. It was kind of a bitch move.” White added that he struggled with de Veer during the first two seasons. “By the time the third season came around, he’d won Emmys and he had his song go viral, he didn’t want to go through the process with me, he didn’t want to go to sessions," said White. "He would always look at me with this contemptuous smirk on his face like he thought I was a chimp or something … he’s definitely making a big deal out of a creative difference.”