Horrible Music that ruined a beautiful Movie
There is no excuse for the producers and directors not to have seen how stupid it was to link the movie of the 1920's with the music they chose. It is what has kept me from purchasing the movie.
shareI'm in the EXACT same boat. I want to buy this movie so badly, but I just can't justify it with such an incredibly bad soundtrack. Not talking about the scoring here of course, which was beautiful and was almost great enough patch all of the sh!tty Jay-Z/hip hop/pop music infesting this film like a poisonous cancer. The soundtrack was just downright terrible for a film set in the early 20's and made a mockery of what would otherwise have been a perfect adaption.
shareI agree too, but the only one song that i really loved was Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey. I think that song fits so perfectly for this movie! It gave me goosebumps when it played during the scene of when Gatsby and Daisy meet again.
shareThe song, Young And Beautiful is NOT of the 1920's era either. Matter of fact, not many love ballads were. Mostly, jazz, swing and ragtime. Those were popularly composed by blacks too. (FYI) So if your problem with the movie was with those God awful blacks and hip hop, understand what a bigoted hypocrite you are to like Del Rey's Young & Beautiful when songs like that were not around in the 20's either. And if music is the problem for you, then mute it. You will discover that the movie will remain the same. (Giggle)
shareWell said!
shareTotally agree I think rap music actually went along with the period in a sense of all the wealth, fashion, and decedent themes the film address. Rap music address these themes. I mean my god a lot of rap music is about wealth. It makes sense. I love the Lana Del Rey song and you are right it doesn't belong in 1920's in a literal sense, but I liked the soundtrack it had a mix of different genres EVEN jazz! Which people over look. Listen to the rehash of "Crazy in Love" they give it a jazzy sound. They also do this in the song "A Little Party Never Hurt Nobody".
shareI did not care for any of the songs. Also, stop looking to be offended. It is comments like yours that really keep racism alive.
The music did not belong in this movie, period.
I agree. The music just did not belong in this movie. Neither the rap nor anything by Lana Del Rey or any other white pop artist. They should have used 1920s style music, period. The era was called the Jazz Age for a reason. I also do not understand why not liking the music is "racist". I hate racism, and I'm usually the first to call it out, but how the hell does not liking rap music make anyone racist? That mentality is both ignorant and absurd.
So just because some people who make rap and hip-hop now happen to be black, then someone who doesn't like this era's rap and hip-hop is racist? A bunch of people who happen to be black also made a lot of jazz music, pop music, 1950s style music, and "old-school" style hip-hop and rap (all genres/styles which I like very much), some of the greatest music was made by black artists...how come everyone seems to forget that, and only point out the mainstream rap of this very specific time period?
If anything, it's racist to say that an entire group of people are associated with rap music of today's era simply based on their skin color, ethnicity, etc. I don't like most of this era's mainstream music whether it be rap, pop, rock, or whatever genre, it has nothing whatsoever to do with whatever ethnic background the musical artist happens to have. The movie should have had other music, music from the era it is set in, and I just don't understand why they chose this instead.
This isn't just about the 1920's though, this is a Baz Luhrmann film and including modern tracks with stories set so far back in the past is part of his shtick. Have you seen Moulin Rouge? Along with the grand production it was very expected.
shareOh GROW UP. The only people who "keep racism alive" are racists. Duh. It's ABSURD and frankly, quite STUPID that you think acknowledging racism is what keeps it alive, as opposed to the racist behavior in the first place.
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I did not care for any of the songs. Also, stop looking to be offended. It is comments like yours that really keep racism alive
What an ignorant comment. What keeps racism alive is racism, not someone who is calling it out. Even if the person calling it out is wrong that does not form bigotry in the heart of the accused; it may simply bring it to the surface. share
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So you honestly believe that these people would've been okay with the anachronistic and tonally awkward hip hop music if it had been Eminem?
Get real.
Also the Lana del Ray song, while contemporary, sounds like it could fit in with that era. While the rap music doesn't fit in at all.
Um, no it doesn't. Your bias is showing. I love Lana Del Rey, huge fan, but her song clearly quite clearly did not fit in just as much as the "horrid hip hop" you're soooo dead set against. FYI.
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shareAh, yes, because incoherent heavy metal would have been perfect. I notice a lot of bigots hate the movie because of the "hip hop." Ridiculous! The music didn't change the dialogue, plot, etc. Mute it, and you'd still have The Great Gatsby.
shareThe music changed the mood of the movie. It was horrific music! What trash. Ruined the movie. I would have loved to see it with some authentic period piece music.
Rap & Hip Hop is just noise! Hate it~
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Nice straw-man fallacy Mr. intelligent, intellectual debater.
shareIt has nothing to do with bigotry, at least from me. It would have been more appropriate to use music from the 1920's era. Using music from the jazz and blues scenes in Harlem during that era would have worked. Ragtime would have worked. The use of rap and disco music simply doesn't fit with 1920's dialogue or material culture, and the musical choices don't work as an experimental alternative interpretation.
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Really? You know, back in the day ragtime and jazz were the "poisonous cancer" infesting vanilla white peoples' airwaves. I love how you praise Gatsby's story but don't get the connection between the fast life of the 20s and the black music coming out of New York at the time, not to mention how black music has been at the vanguard of pop music since that time. (Jay-Z is, btw, from Brooklyn.)
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