Songwriting For Guitar Podcast
Jun 26, 2026 · 40 min · 12 segments
In this episode, I sit down with music supervisor Jessica Gramuglia to talk about what's actually happening on the other side of that inbox. Jess has worked in music supervision at Warner Brothers TV…
Jess GramugliaGuest
Mike MeiersHost
If it's coming off that way via email, you're doing something very, very wrong.

Because people can be like that in person, but if that's the impression I'm getting just from never even looking at your face and reading an email, that's like a red flag to me.

Hey, it's Mike here with the Songwriting for Guitar podcast, episode 129, Why Music Supervisors Ignore You.

Now, in this episode, we got a returning guest, my friend and music supervisor, Jess Gramuglia, here, and she's going to dive into some of the cringiest things people do.

Because, yes, we want to understand how do we reach out to music supervisors, but we also have to be aware of the slew of things that they don't like, the things that people are doing consistently that... on their radar they're like that's a huge red flag for me so if you want to gain traction in the sync world this is something that you've got to watch we're in an age where everybody's using chat gpt claude which again i think are great i have no issues with them i see them as tools now the problem is they're sending you these gigantic, unnecessary, cluttered, bulky emails that make no sense.

And so this episode, I want to dive through some of the, without naming names and people, just like, what are some of the most worst things that you've gotten that have just struck you the wrong way when you read that email?
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If it's coming off that way via email, you're doing something very, very wrong.

Because people can be like that in person, but if that's the impression I'm getting just from never even looking at your face and reading an email, that's like a red flag to me.

Hey, it's Mike here with the Songwriting for Guitar podcast, episode 129, Why Music Supervisors Ignore You.

Now, in this episode, we got a returning guest, my friend and music supervisor, Jess Gramuglia, here, and she's going to dive into some of the cringiest things people do.

Because, yes, we want to understand how do we reach out to music supervisors, but we also have to be aware of the slew of things that they don't like, the things that people are doing consistently that... on their radar they're like that's a huge red flag for me so if you want to gain traction in the sync world this is something that you've got to watch we're in an age where everybody's using chat gpt claude which again i think are great i have no issues with them i see them as tools now the problem is they're sending you these gigantic, unnecessary, cluttered, bulky emails that make no sense.

And so this episode, I want to dive through some of the, without naming names and people, just like, what are some of the most worst things that you've gotten that have just struck you the wrong way when you read that email?