Unfortunately, for music lovers, if you are on a TLC reality show, you have to give up listening to your favorite tunes. The network isn’t able to use music without paying for it to be featured, especially if the rights to certain songs are costly. Oftentimes, they won’t pay for it, so listening to music on your phone or while you’re getting ready to go out is a big no no while filming.
Sandy Malone of TLC’s “Wedding Island” told HuffPost that this was actually one of the most difficult rules for her to follow while filming, since music is a big part of her everyday routine. “It makes perfect sense because the network cannot use commercial music without paying for it,” she wrote, “and if you’re a baby reality show, nobody is paying royalties to Pink or Rihanna so that you can jam out to ‘Perfect’ or ‘Umbrella’ to get psyched up in the car on the way to a wedding.”
Rather than listening to your favorite tunes on the way to an event, you could expect to sit in the car answering interview questions, talking, and filming instead. Since the cameras are always rolling, the chances of singing off-camera are not expected to be featured. However, Malone added, “If you have a good relationship with your producers (as I eventually did), you might get a one song break.”