26 Songs I Want to Hear in the Girls Reboot

It’s a shame that the Emmy for Outstanding Music Supervision was only instituted during its farewell season, because Girls really deserved to sweep for six years straight. The HBO series’ soundtrack, overseen by Manish Raval and Tom Wolfe, was a paragon of the form, punching up the show’s emotional moments and elevating its comedic beats to gut-busting, frequently excruciating heights. (“You can be my white Kate Moss tonight.”) Think back on that one Girls scene that imprinted itself on your psyche. Chances are, it was accompanied by one of Raval and Wolfe’s thoughtful selections. (For me, it’s when Aimee Mann’s “How Am I Different” closes out the Jessa-centric season two episode “Video Games.”)So when Girls auteur Lena Dunham revealed the show would be returning to HBO for five episodes, my first thought—okay, second following a series of garbled expletives—was: What’s gonna be on the soundtrack? What song will Marnie butcher at karaoke this time? What will be playing while Hannah takes nudes? Will they go there and drop “Girls” by the Dare? There should be a few mandatory inclusions: something off the new Robyn album; a new original Jenny Lewis song, pretty please; and Grace Ives...