From AirPods to a Pacemaker: How ‘The Pitt’ Uses Music to Bridge the Living and the Dead”. It begins with something so small, so modern, it’s almost mundane—a pair of AirPods, and the opening notes of “Baby” playing in the ears of a lone character. But as the world of The Pitt unravels, that casual listening session becomes the first thread in a musical tapestry that quietly ties together the film’s most haunting question: what connects us when everything else is gone? In a setting where language falters and survival drowns out speech, music becomes the last thing that speaks. And by the time “Fail Forward” closes the film—half in reality, half in memory—the soundtrack completes a full emotional circle: from a pop song danced to in silence, to a final heartbeat echoed through headphones, looping life back into death. There are no grand speeches, no melodramatic swells—just sound. And somehow, through that sound, The Pitt reminds us that the most human thing left… might be the playlist we never turned off.
From AirPods to a Pacemaker: How The Pitt Uses Music to Bridge the Living and the Dead It starts with something so ordinary it barely registers—AirPods and the faint, familiar hook of Justin Bieber’s “Baby.” But in The Pitt, that fleeting, modern moment becomes the opening note of a haunting meditation on connection, loss, and … Read more
