THE GREAT GATSBY SOUNDTRACK DEBUTS AT NO. 1 ON ITUNES PHILIPPINES; SNAGS THE
NO. 2 SPOT ON THE BILLBOARD 200 CHART
SOUNDTRACK
BOASTS ALL-STAR LINE UP;
FEATURING
ORIGINAL NEW MUSIC FROM LANA DEL REY, GOTYE,
FLORENCE
+ THE MACHINE, WILL.I.AM, BEYONCE, THE XX, FERGIE +
THE
BRYAN FERRY ORCHESTRA and MORE!
BILLBOARD.COM --- The high-profile soundtrack, has been revived by "The Great Gatsby," Baz Luhrmann's
$100 million-plus adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. With Jay-Z
onboard as executive music producer and a roster of artists from across
Universal Music Group's labels, the soundtrack is both star-laden and a gamble:
Can a hit film that isn't a musical generate a smash soundtrack?
The Interscope "Gatsby" release mirrors the film exactly
in its running order: "The
razzle dazzle upfront," music supervisor Anton Monsted says, "and as the layers are peeled back on
Gatsby's character, the music enhances the storytelling, both in the songs and
the score."
Lana Del Rey, among the artists who wrote songs for the picture,
is the first out of the block. Her "Young and Beautiful" was released
ahead of the album and has been used in trailers along with Beyonce and Andre
3000's cover of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black," and "Over the
Love" from Florence & the Machine. The ads drive home the fact that
the story is the set in the '20s, but the music is most definitely not.
"From the start we wanted the music
to capture the spirit of the 1920s-they were the Roaring '20s, not the dull
'20s or dreary '20s," Luhrmann says, noting that the music
process began at the script stage and eventually included compositions written
to a locked print of the film. "And
the story is so relevant to today we wanted music that would have the spark
that jazz would have had in the 1920s." That meant incorporating
hip-hop-Jay-Z was working on "No Church in the Wild" when he first
met Luhrmann and wrote "100$ Bill" for the film's first party
scene-and EDM from The xx and Nero, in addition to vintage-sounding new work
from the Bryan Ferry Orchestra. Craig Armstrong provided the score and music
editor Craig Beckett blended it, new recordings and music from the '20s written
by George Gershwin, Fats Waller and others.
"Is it important to me that music
plays a role in the storytelling? Yes," Luhrmann
says as he begins a string of questions and obvious answers. "Is it crucial that we have stars
singing songs to help market the film? No. Do I want a companion piece to the
film so that people can relive the experience of the film on their own?
Absolutely."
The full track list for “The
Great Gatsby” standard soundtrack album is as follows:
1. 100$ Bill - JAY Z
2. Back To Black - Beyoncé x André
3000
3. Bang Bang - will.i.am
4. A Little Party Never Killed Nobody
(All We Got) - Fergie + Q Tip + GoonRock
5. Young And Beautiful - Lana Del Rey
6. Love Is The Drug - Bryan Ferry with
The Bryan Ferry Orchestra
7. Over The Love - Florence + The
Machine
8. Where The Wind Blows - Coco O. of
Quadron
9. Crazy in Love - Emeli Sandé and The
Bryan Ferry Orchestra
10. Together – The xx
11. Hearts A Mess - Gotye
12. Love Is Blindness – Jack White
13. Into the Past - Nero
14. Kill and Run – Sia
"THE GREAT GATSBY SOUNDTRACK" under MCA Music (Universal Music Philippines)
is available via iTunes http://smarturl.it/greatgatsbydlx and in CDs at Astroplus, Odyssey Music & Video and Fully
Booked | For more information, visit www.facebook.com/mcamusic.ccj | Opening across the Philippines on May
17, “The Great Gatsby” will be distributed in Digital 3D and regular format by
Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
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