Not only did Fox want the music in "Office Space" changed, it seems the test screening Mike Judge agreed to endure was hosted by a particularly snarky host, intent upon getting the reaction Fox needed. As Judge told the SXSW panel:
"It gets to the focus group, and the moderator, she was trying so hard to pollute the water [...] it's like 20 people and we're behind them and she goes 'So what did you think about the music?' Then all 20 of them started going, 'Oh it was great,' and she goes, 'But what about some of the rap songs,' and then they go, 'Oh, it was great, it was great' [and the moderator replies], 'But maybe there were too many of them?' And she tries to get someone to nod along with her and they would not give her anything."
According to Judge, one audience member sealed the deal when he explained to the moderator exactly why the gangsta rap was so integral to the scene, saying, "That's what's cool about it, these nerdy white boys and the music's angry." Thus, the gangsta rap stayed and the film was all the better for it, with Judge even giving Tom Rothman credit for "never [saying] anything about it again" and "keeping his word."
Even after this, however, the studio would try to impose their own soundtrack preferences on the film. As the director told the audience at SXSW:
"If you watch the trailer, the trailer's like Fatboy Slim, it's like [singing mockingly] 'Right about now, the funk soul brother,' I mean they wanted like Chumbawamba for this thing, right. What a wholly different movie this would be if it was 'Right about now, the funk soul brother.'"
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