The soundtrack is comprised entirely of
a series of pop songs and a few sound effects.
Not exact matches
As it turns out, the relative skill with which Tully has been assembled — with kudos to cinematographer Eric Steelberg for his dusky color palette; editor Stefan Grube for some metronomically precise cutting in a
series of domestic montages; and, yes, Reitman the Younger for using
pop music more adroitly than usual (notably a suite
of Cyndi Lauper
songs to score a nighttime drive to Brooklyn) and actually locating and maintaining a non-obnoxious tone for the duration — is beside the point.
Meredith has the sass and Barb, sorry, June (Shannon Purser, «Stranger Things» TV
series) channels wisdom, but none
of them have as much energy as the film's
pop songs.
The soundtrack contains a
series of ironically used rock and
pop songs, which this reviewer found intrusive and distracting.
There is about 75 minutes
of audio - only content including a 1943 «Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater Radio Broadcast», a «VOX
Pop Radio Broadcast» from 1947, a
series of «Scoring Stage Sessions» featuring alternate versions
of the a few
songs.
A video for Mandy Moore's «Singing to the
Song of Life» is a
series of clips from the film intercut with an interview with Moore, underscored by the pristine popster's insipid
pop stylings.
Recording as the folk -
pop duo The Pierces, Allison and Catherine Pierce have enjoyed a fruitful run
of albums dating back to the turn
of the century — never quite breaking all the way, but still landing festival spots, touring the world, attracting strong reviews, and even providing the theme
song for the TV
series Pretty Little Liars.
Conceptual artist Tony Tasset's new
series of paintings and sculptures, Me And My Arrow, references the Harry Nilsson
song of the same title and shows his continued interest in using a
pop sensibility to tap into shared visual knowledge.