Each story, each crime, has, as part of its underlying motive, a song that drove the killer… to kill. In each episode, the story isn’t just about a murder, the victim and murderer, but a song… and a burning, very modern question; can the song become a motive to murder?
We’ll investigate and tell stories like – the Columbine massacre and the claim that Marilyn Manson’s gothic rock lyrics inspired the violent rampage – a husband and father who believed that Eminem (lyrics) had convinced him that his family were demons and killed them all – in Virginia, a mild-mannered teen killed his girlfriend and her parents motivated by hip-hop Horrorcore – and the heavy metal band Judas Priest, who were charged and tried in a Nevada court for inspiring a murder suicide pact. In every case we’ll ask… was the music guilty of making them do it?
Just like Rock, Metal, Hip Hop, Goth, and more, this series has an edge… that reflects the glitzy, zgrungy, erotic, sinful, satanic, violent, mesmerizing world of modern music… to enhance the time and place of each episode. Like all true crime noir, we’ll feel the tension of what goes on in the shadows, just beyond the spotlights in the real world. And what lurks in the minds of a diverse slew of perpetrators is a constant, menacing focus. The result – Music Made Me Do it will have a style unlike any other true crime series.
All is told through a tried, tested, yet constantly evolving technical and creative combination of – riveting first person testimony from key players; family, friends, detectives, defense and prosecuting attorneys, coroners, psychiatrists, musicologists and, of course, members of the bands whose music was on trial – plus, powerful dramatic reenactments, again, shot in a dynamic, edgy fashion – exhaustively researched investigative and court records – visual archive from family, police, trial exhibits and news sources – 2D and 3D CGI treatments – and the music. All is woven together in an edgy editing style that reflects the content.