Rom Com Roundup: Music & Lyrics [11 of 30]
Posted by S. Stills in E, movies, Music and Lyrics, Rom Com Roundup
The Movie: Music & Lyrics
The Blurb: A washed up 80's pop star has one shot at getting back into the big time by writing a song for a young starlet. While he's great with melody, he's terrible with lyrics, and inadvertently stumbles on Sophie, his house...plant waterer, or something, who has a quirk of talking to herself and singing random lyrics to any music playing around her. He hires her to write the song he needs, and wouldn't you know it, they fall in love. KISMET!
The Conventions: montage, revealing past skeletons, the "how do you know it's love" conversation between women
Did I Cry? Nope..didn't. I'm convinced it's never going to happen. I'm dead inside.
Current State of Mind: Wow, I should NOT have watched this right after Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. I wouldn't say this movie is necessarily bad, but it's definitely not good. I was talking to someone while finishing it up, and called it a Fresca, or Crystal Light. It barely exists. Sure, it tries, and god bless it for trying so hard to make some sort of commentary about the creation of music and how it mirrors love (don't you get it, the MUSIC is like the physical attraction, and the LYRICS are like the things you fall in love with). But the actual love affair in this movie takes such a backseat to the story of Hugh Grant's character, that you almost don't really care whether they end up together or not.
Still, there's something kinda poignant about comparing the way a washed up rock star views making music with the way adults having been through heartbreak may view love. Yes, it's cheesy, that it just takes the right song/person to make you believe again, after being so cynical about it for so many years, but it's true. Even the song they write, "A Way Back Into Love" (and dammit, it's kinda catchy) is centered on this concept. To everyone out there who hasn't felt love in a while, you (and I) might just have to accept...we got a lot of unthrilling songs to hear before one hits us the right way. But, y'know, it's better than no music at all...
Don't know why, but I'm 11 down, and feeling...pretty positive right now. it's probably all the glue I've been huffing.
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