What's the deal with movie music these days? What's going on with the songs being nominated for best song in the Academy Awards the last few years?
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February 23rd, 2009
Yesterday, only three songs were nominated, two of which were from India. The winning song was one of them. I doubt we’ll be hearing it or hearing it sung by American artists anytime soon. Last year the pickings were slim, also. What’s going on? Is movie music going on a back burner? There was nothing noteworthy in Mama Mia or High School Musical? What’s happening?
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The song must be original and written specifically for the film. So that takes out all of Mama Mia. And actually most songs which are selected for a film, not written specifically for it.
Then, I believe the song is usually one that has application outside of the movie itself. So while I’ve heard the song from Wall-E on the radio a few times, I haven’t heard anything from High School Musical.
I think after “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” they figured we’d reached the pinnacle.
As for “Mamma Mia”, afaik, none of the songs in it were original works for the movie – they were all culled from the stage show, which itself is based on Abba songs.
As for HSM, uh – ok.
FUCK HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL.
Fuck Zac Efron, fuck that naked whore Vanessa Hudgens, fuck the money hungry Disney Co machine. I’m tired of that shti.
And the songs have never been that popular or well-known. The soundtrack for Slumdog Millionaire was amazing, so don’t knock that. But seriously, go look at the wikipedia page for the award, and try and identify the majority of those songs. If they weren’t put into the mainstream purposefully, they are like fucking Disney songs and shit shit like that. Now that musicals as movies are out of favor (that is, musicals that are written as movies first, not adapted from the stage), the trend in music in film is propelling up and coming artists rather than songs written for the movie (think: Kimya Dawson and Juno). So the trend is going away from this shit…
High school musical is not music so it should not even think to be in that category…
don’t get me started on that crap they call “music” or why those people were even at the oscars.
@blondie411 they were there because vanessa hudgens needs to be seen in a rio-cut leotard and fishnets. other than that, no reason whatsoever.
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