Movie soundtracks.
Posted by karaloveskate@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 11 comments
This will be my old person yelling at clouds moment. But I was watching the music video for Bobby Brown’s song, “On our own”. And it made me wonder what happened to having songs written specifically for movies? I think it’s a lost media.
CokBlockinWinger@reddit
I still have this cassette single. It was the first tape I ever bought. Side A is the entire song, B-side is the same song without the rap.
TheLastBoat@reddit
‘Too hot to handle, Too cold to hold…’
StevieV61080@reddit
They are the Ghostbusters and they're in control
Clear_Tangerine5110@reddit
Had 'em throwin' a party for a bunch of children
While all the while, the slime was under the building
So they packed up their group, got a grip, came equipped
Grabbed their proton packs out the back, and they split
noonesaidityet@reddit
I don't know if it's a nation-wide thing, but I've heard this play over the loudspeakers at the Walmart closest to us like 3 or 4 times over the last few years. Their playlist must be relatively short, cause it seems unbelievably random that I'd hear this particular song that many times.
J_Robert_Matthewson@reddit
The way people listen to music has changed in the streaming era. Albums sales as a whole are down, but singles are up. Studios usually aren't going to commission a full album of original songs for a film. They might commission one they think will sell as a single (e.g. Like when a new Bond film comes out and they make a big deal about who's doing the titles track) and rely on film score or license a bunch of existing songs to fill the rest.
Pretty much the mid-70s to the mid-90s was the golden age of soundtracks with film songs regularly making the top 40, with some films generated multiple top ten hits.
endtheme@reddit
Billie Ellish's What Was I Made For? was written for the Barbie movie. It still happens it's just not as dominant because of how media is consumed and because you're old now
karaloveskate@reddit (OP)
I wasn’t aware that song was made for the movie. And I didn’t need a reminder of my age.
Clear_Tangerine5110@reddit
MTV & VH1 died, so music videos for movie songs don't have a real home anymore, except for maybe Youtube, but that's where everything ends up. I recall growing up when the music videos to movie songs actually helped promote the movie. They were better than the trailers, IMO.
(Okay, so technically VH1 still exists, but it's all reality TV bullshit now - they started phasing out music videos in the late 90s. So theyre effectively dead.)
Additionally, movies were better before the internet, IMO. Think of all the super successful movies that wouldn't stand a chance now. Wayne's World 1992 is a good example. That movie was a phenomenon in theaters the way the Avengers movies are now. Try that today and it would tank so hard it probably wouldn't even be shown in theaters and just go straight to streaming.
karaloveskate@reddit (OP)
That’s another lost one. Movies based on popular Saturday Night Live sketches.
PatchworkGirl82@reddit
I was just thinking of music video tie-ins. My favorites are Batdance and Partyman by Prince, but there's a lot of great ones out there.