Movie Music

the return of the sounds of music:

The LP for “I Saw The TV Glow” arrives in the aftermath of the pop delights of the “Barbie” soundtrack, which climbed the Billboard 200 last summer and earned Billie Eilish and Finneas two Grammys and an Oscar for “What Was I Made For.” Last year the “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” soundtrack, from producer Metro Boomin, was filled with dreamy hip-hop that sounded like the kind of thing that the hero Miles Morales himself would have listened to. And on television, the Apple TV+ period piece about Chanel and Dior, “The New Look,” recruited Taylor Swift’s collaborator Jack Antonoff to produce covers of tunes from the era by modern artists like Florence and the Machine and the 1975. It’s not as if soundtracks had gone away completely. A decade ago, “Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1” went platinum with its compilation of classic rock songs like Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling.” Still, with top artists like Swift and Beyoncé more focused on albums than singles, it seems fitting that Hollywood is getting back into the soundtrack game. Why not sell a movie with music as well?

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