![]() In case you've not been acquainted with pop music in the past twenty years, it's a Southern rock/country song that tells the story of the devil and "Johnny" competing for title of "Best Fiddler." It's been a long time since I've heard this song, so I was happy to hear this on the soundtrack. "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", sang the Charlie Daniels Band. INXS brings us another staple of the eighties in "Need You Tonight". This song is the jam! Of course, there was only this and "Rhythm is a Dancer" as hits for Snap, but this Euro-dance number is probably retro enough it wouldn't garner laughs on the dance floor. ![]() How rebellious! Zoe (Tyra Banks) exclaimed, "This song is the jam!" in reaction to hearing to Snap's "The Power", a mainstay of my own middle-school musical experience. Plus, it samples the bawdy Andrew "Dice" Clay, who is un-Disney as one can get. "Unbelievable", the only hit of the UK's EMF, is a classic, danceable tune great for bars and parties. Don Henley's "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" is great 80's rock. The next five songs on the soundtrack are tunes featured in-film as jukebox songs that characters dance to. (It's currently on "repeat" in my CD player.) Of course, it's the original soundtrack song most likely to appear on the radio it's very catchy. The song she creates in the film, "The Right Kind of Wrong", features cheesy turntableism and synth-sounding electric guitars. The events of Coyote Ugly mirror the appropriation of jazz, blues, rock, and rap by white musicians. Like all influential musicians post-Sousa, she lifts the beats she hears wholesale, without so much as a shout-out to the black guy or the material she "adapted." Touchstone, and hence Disney, tells us it is permissible to steal from others, but not to download MP3s. ![]() Suddenly, she hears a black dude down the block pump some rap out his stereo. In the film, Violet (Piper) is earnestly working at night on the roof of her tenement building with her Casio keyboard, struggling to craft a catchy pop song. The last of the bunch is in a league of its own. "But I Do Love You" has a stronger beat but still has romantic lyrics "adult contemporary," I believe it's called. "Please Remember" calms the tempo for a country-tinged "slow dance" song, dreaded by boys at middle-school dances everywhere. ![]() ![]() "Can't Find The Moonlight" is a serviceable pop tune. Ignoring my previous rant, the songs are quite decent. The first third of the soundtrack album is made up of Piper Perabo's character's "original" songs, sung by LeAnn Rimes and written by the gifted Dianne Warren. This strange pairing of Curb Records (LeAnn Rimes' label) and the film's producers leads to some interesting observations about the Coyote Ugly soundtrack, which I note below. Despite Piper's effervescent charisma and beauty, I feel cheated. See, Jerry picked a girl who couldn't singLeann Rimes filled in vocal duties for Violet's character. With this in mind, I'm baffled by the many references in the Coyote Ugly press kit to the "extensive cross-country" cattle call held for the role of Violet Sanford, played by Piper Perabo. In Manhattan, this means struggling stage (not film) folk, all of whom assert singing, dancing, and acting skills. So I have to guess that Jerry Bruckheimer doesn't spend much time in New York, where most waiters and waitresses you'll see are struggling actors. ![]()
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