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Music From Juno So Good I Almost Forgot the Movie

January 22, 2008

The Juno Soundtrack is anything but a cute cover.
by Sarah Heath

JunoPosterSound.jpg    The soundtrack to the award winning film has catchy tunes, racy tunes, old tunes and new tunes. This CD completely falls into the catagory of, "Fun for the whole family."  

     The soundtrack is a pretty even mix of playtime melodies with artists like Antsy Pants whose child-like voice is quirky and comforting. The most tracks belonged to one Kimya Dawson, whose grave, sing-song voice slurs out grown-up lullabies. In Loose Lips [track 8] Kimya sings of love and war, subtly burns the President, and the chorus is a war chant, “We won’t stop until somebody calls the cops, and even then we’ll just start again and pretend that nothing ever happened.”

    The second thread in the braid is the classic rock. The CD takes major rock hits from across the timeline. Classics like: Dearest by Buddy Holly, A Well Respected Man by The Kinks, I’m Sticking With You by The Velvet Underground and All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople. The film also features underground/indie favorites: Superstar by Sonic Youth, Piazza, New York Catcher by Belle & Sebastian, Sea of Love by Cat Power, Anyone Else but You by The Moldy Peaches, and the infectious song from the opening credits, All I Want is You by Barry Louis Polisar.

    The final thread is, in fact, the way that the music meets up with the movie. I loved Juno and everyone should go see it. The characters are believable and personable. At the end of the movie the song popularized by the previews (Anyone Else but You by the Moldy Peaches) is sung in a duet between actors Ellen Page and Micheal Cera. The movie isn’t a musical, and playing it off cool when you’re singing and the main focus is on you is really hard, but the two did well and the scene was that much more adorable. The soundtrack has both the original and the actor cover.

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Written by Sarah Heath · Filed Under Headlines, Living & Arts, Movies, Music