Mindy Kaling's 'Never Have I Ever' Is Repping Aus Music Hard In New Season

After catapulting a 2019 track by Melbourne indie outfit Kids At Midnight with its appearance in their last season, it looks like Netflix teen comedy Never Have I Ever may have developed a taste for Australian music.

Premiering its second season last week and skyrocketing into the top 10 most watched in Australia, the series created by The Office US star Mindy Kaling garnered heaps of local attention last year when the Kids At Midnight track Boys Like You was used in the season one finale.

Now, Kaling and co are returning to the well with even more Aus-centric acts popping up throughout the series. Pop legend Kylie Minogue had her tune Say Something featured in the season closer, alongside Melbourne artist Hachiku with her track You'll Probably Think This Song Is About You.

A signee to the Courtney Barnett/Jen Cloher-founded Milk! Records, Hachiku (aka Anika Ostendorf) is a dream-pop guitarist and producer who's been described as creating an "intricate sonic soundscape" with her music. Her debut LP, I'll Probably Be Asleep, was released last year.

Meanwhile, this season's episode three closing credits utilises another Aussie singer by the name of Tim Ayre with his song Mexican Holiday.

The NSW-based performer has been making music for many years in a variety of projects, including the critically acclaimed Tim & Jean (who would later become The Lazy Clam). Ayre is making waves in the music scene both here and overseas, with rave reviews on his Unearthed page as well as having his tunes released through Paris' Maison Kitsune.

The inclusion of music in the series has shown to be quite the boom for artists, as The Music found out last year when speaking to Kids At Midnight (aka Jane Elizabeth Hanley) about having her music on the show.

"The response has been more than I could’ve dreamed. I feel so lucky to have been a part of such a special series that has gone straight to the hearts of so many people," Hanley said at the time. 

"I’m getting just the sweetest messages from new fans - that they feel like I wrote it just for them, or that it makes them remember a crush they never had, or that they’re just listening to it on repeat and crying. And then I tear up when I read those sorts of messages because as a songwriter that’s the goal."

Never Have I Ever is streaming via Netflix now.