From ‘The Bodyguard’ to ‘Barbie’: Is the movie soundtrack back and bigger than ever?It is hard to pinpoint how long it has been since a soundtrack has dominated conversation the way “Barbie” has, particularly— Lady Gaga’s “A Star is Born” performance comes to mind, with the success of “Shallow.” Then there’s “La La Land,” and “Dreamgirls,” which received three of the five original song nominations in 2007. But overwhelmingly, there has been a drought in zeitgeist-defining film soundtracks.
Another option is to use original material, like in “Barbie” — what Trust views as a throwback to movies like “Dirty Dancing,” released during a time when a single soundtrack could produce multiple radio hits from various artists. In “Barbie’s” case, that’s Lipa, Eilish, Minaj and Ice Spice. “They just become these forever songs.... It’s like a great band who has chemistry: the right song, the right visual, the right scene, it just becomes something so much bigger than itself,” explained Aspers. “I know that that’s because of the brilliance of the song and the movie. It’s the two of them together.
In her view, “Murder on the Dancefloor” became one of those significant movie moments — think Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” in “Almost Famous” — because the right placement “unlocks the next level of emotion in the film,” she says.There’s a synergy across fans of both film and music. According to Luminate’s 2023 end-of-year report, U.S. movie theater goers are 70% more likely to have attended a live concert in the last six-months than those who don’t go to movie theaters.
Kevin Weaver, president of Atlantic Records West Coast, which released “Barbie The Album,” says it was always the label’s ambition for the soundtrack to stand on its own outside of the film but also work symbiotically – a reflection of how movies and their musical companions can work together.
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