Time: 45:55
Size: 105.2 MB
Styles: Soundtrack
Year: 2016
Art: Front
[3:47] 1. Cast - Another Day Of Sun
[4:19] 2. Emma Stone - Someone In The Crowd
[1:38] 3. Justin Hurwitz - Mia & Sebastian’s Theme
[3:56] 4. Ryan Gosling - A Lovely Night
[1:51] 5. Justin Hurwitz - Herman’s Habit
[1:51] 6. Ryan Gosling - City Of Stars
[4:17] 7. Justin Hurwitz - Planetarium
[2:04] 8. Justin Hurwitz - Summer Montage Madeline
[2:30] 9. Ryan Gosling - City of Stars
[3:12] 10. John Legend - Start A Fire
[1:27] 11. Justin Hurwitz - Engagement Party
[3:48] 12. Emma Stone - Audition (The Fools Who Dream)
[7:39] 13. Justin Hurwitz - Epilogue
[0:46] 14. Justin Hurwitz - The End
[2:41] 15. Justin Hurwitz - City Of Stars (Humming)
Falling in love has always worked better with a soundtrack. What would Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s prance through the streets in (500) Days of Summer have mattered without the bounce of Hall & Oates “You Make My Dreams”? Lord knows we only tolerate Ben Affleck awkwardly trotting animal crackers up Liv Tyler’s stomach in Armageddon because it’s paired with Aerosmith’s “Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing”. Ever since talkies found the value of song, the silver screen has had a penchant for pairing bursting hearts with the perfect tune. The same formula might’ve worked just fine for La La Land, the sophomore film from writer-director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash). It would’ve been easy to back scenes of moonlit tap-dancing and dark theater hand-holding with the work of Adele and Ella Fitzgerald. Instead, Chazelle and composer Justin Hurwitz have created a soundtrack of original songs that stand toe to toe with the great movie musicals of the past.
La La Land stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling as Angelenos longing to realize their dreams. For Stone’s Mia, that means becoming an actress, while Gosling’s Sebastian is a jazzman who longs to open a club of his own. La La Land isn’t a musical in the traditional sense; rather than being sung-through, the film sports plenty of dialogue between numbers. But by saving the songs for key moments and linking them together through Hurwitz’s opulent score, the results are a stunning elixir of golden age romance and timeless melodies. In the film, a massive production accompanies the song, as traffic-jammed drivers on a Los Angeles freeway abandon their cars to dance and sing. Those who have seen the film will understand the long, sweeping musical interludes of building strings that soundtrack the more elaborate choreography. While warm and sweet on its surface, “Another Day of Sun” also fills the pivotal opening role of laying out the crux of the story. Yes, these are excited dreamers with a song in their hearts, but they’re also stuck on the freeway, going nowhere fast.
Chazelle and Hurwitz revel in being clever with La La Land’s music, but never to its detriment. In “A Lovely Night”, they channel the classic conceit of having two people who are clearly meant to be together singing about how wrong they are for each other. Sebastian sets the tone when he muses, “A silver shine that stretches to the sea/ We’ve stumbled on a view that’s tailor-made for two/ What a shame those two are you and me.” The chorus of the song (“What a waste of a lovely night”) is a perfect wink back to something Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers might have crooned to one another. It’s only to fair to note that while Gosling and Stone do admirable work as singers, neither has an especially strong voice. In particular, Gosling manages to mask his deficiencies by speak-singing on occasion, but there’s a certain charm that comes with casting “amateur” voices in a musical. In a way, it provides the listener with a more direct route to empathy, allowing you to imagine it might actually be you who is suddenly compelled to burst into song. ~Zack Ruskin
La La Land stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling as Angelenos longing to realize their dreams. For Stone’s Mia, that means becoming an actress, while Gosling’s Sebastian is a jazzman who longs to open a club of his own. La La Land isn’t a musical in the traditional sense; rather than being sung-through, the film sports plenty of dialogue between numbers. But by saving the songs for key moments and linking them together through Hurwitz’s opulent score, the results are a stunning elixir of golden age romance and timeless melodies. In the film, a massive production accompanies the song, as traffic-jammed drivers on a Los Angeles freeway abandon their cars to dance and sing. Those who have seen the film will understand the long, sweeping musical interludes of building strings that soundtrack the more elaborate choreography. While warm and sweet on its surface, “Another Day of Sun” also fills the pivotal opening role of laying out the crux of the story. Yes, these are excited dreamers with a song in their hearts, but they’re also stuck on the freeway, going nowhere fast.
Chazelle and Hurwitz revel in being clever with La La Land’s music, but never to its detriment. In “A Lovely Night”, they channel the classic conceit of having two people who are clearly meant to be together singing about how wrong they are for each other. Sebastian sets the tone when he muses, “A silver shine that stretches to the sea/ We’ve stumbled on a view that’s tailor-made for two/ What a shame those two are you and me.” The chorus of the song (“What a waste of a lovely night”) is a perfect wink back to something Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers might have crooned to one another. It’s only to fair to note that while Gosling and Stone do admirable work as singers, neither has an especially strong voice. In particular, Gosling manages to mask his deficiencies by speak-singing on occasion, but there’s a certain charm that comes with casting “amateur” voices in a musical. In a way, it provides the listener with a more direct route to empathy, allowing you to imagine it might actually be you who is suddenly compelled to burst into song. ~Zack Ruskin
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