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Rachel Reid on picking Rihanna's "Diamonds" for Shane & Ilya's first dance:
“You can’t pick something obscure,” she said. “So I was thinking, ‘Alright, what’s realistically a song that was popular at that time?’ Because it’s 2021… [what’s a song] that the readers would know, that these hockey players would know, that Harris would have on his phone ready to go, and that the lyrics kind of make some sense. It was a song I was listening to a lot while writing that book, so it was a little treat for me.”
Reid has seen some readers questioning whether it’s truly Shane and Ilya’s song, and she’s fine with that. “Whatever song you like, you could replace it,” she said. “But I felt like I needed to say a song. I couldn’t just say, ‘Harris put on a song.’ I had to pick something. So I picked something I thought made sense as a pop culture reference.”
Whether the song will make an appearance in the Heated Rivalry show remains to be seen, though with its budget, Reid remarks, “It’ll probably be a Canadian indie song.”
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