![]() Recently, the albums for Frozen, Black Panther, and La La Land topped the Billboard charts. Soundtracks continue to exert their powerful presence on audiences. The Bee Gees-fronted soundtrack for quintessential disco musical Saturday Night Fever and Prince’s illustrious soundtrack for Purple Rain demonstrate how soundtracks can become beloved albums in their own right - both soundtracks sold over 10 million copies and remain entrenched in our cultural lexicon. When a popular musical movie pairs its box office triumph with an equally thunderous soundtrack album, the film’s cultural power can significantly amplify. ![]() Obviously, a soundtrack plays a critical role in musicals, which rely on the movie’s musical numbers to further immerse us in the onscreen world.Ī musical’s soundtrack has the potential to dominate both the film and music industry. Music can deepen our empathy with a character, support the narrative, heighten pivotal sequences, and illuminate the film’s subtleties - we can become aware of the feelings and themes unaddressed in the dialogue. You can practically smell the Bud Light and feel the surge of a crowd in that tiny bit.When curated and composed properly, a movie’s soundtrack can enrich a viewing experience like no other aural or visual technique. That's because Ally's huge "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AH AH AHHHHHHHHHHHHH" was a volcanic vocal snippet, so stadium-huge that it was almost funny. Where do you even live?īut okay, if you must: even the smaller sections of the song first heard in the trailer went viral. ![]() Um, have you heard that song? It's delicate country-tinged confessional balled PLUS power-chord rock chorus PLUS a duet between two very famous people PLUS one of them is Lady Gaga. Why is everyone talking about "Shallow" all the time? He later persuades her to sing the song on stage with him at a concert. As well as being an electric Gaga performance, it's the linchpin of their characters' relationship, and thus the whole movie: After Jackson first sees Ally performing at a drag club he asks whether she writes songs, and she shares little snippets of this song with him. Why, that viral stunner is called "Shallow." It's a duet between Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. She co-wrote "Alibi," "Is That Alright?," "Always Remember Us This Way," "Music to My Eyes," "Diggin' My Grave," "Heal Me," "I Don't Know What Love Is," "Why Did You Do That," "Hair Body Face," "Before I Cry," and "I'll Never Love Again"Īs for "Shallow"? A hat tip to Gaga herself, Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, and Anthony Rossomando. Gaga, of course, had a hand in many of the tunes. Beloved Nashville singer/songwriter and guitarist Jason Isbell wrote "Maybe It's Time," another Jackson Maine song you will recognize from the trailer.ĭiane Warren-who wrote "If I Could Turn Back Time," "Unbreak My Heart," "How Do I Live," ever heard of them?-wrote Ally's pop song "Why Did You Do That?" (it's the one she performs on SNL, with lines like "Why do you look so good in those jeans? Why you come around me with an ass like that?") Nelson's band, Promise of the Real, also play Jackson's band in the movie. Then, there are the Jackson country-rock tunes Jackson Maine sings were actually written by Cooper and son of musical legend Willie Nelson, Lukas Nelson. The movie's musical journey kicks off with "La Vie en Rose," which was written by Edith Piaf in 1947.
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