The Great Gatsby soundtrack from hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5snA5TEse9w

Featuring will.i.am as Satchmo, Jack White as ol'-timey Bono, Lana Del Rey as herself, and several singers trying to be Adele but not Adele. Also Fergie in a dubstep update of those '90s Gap swing ads.

I'm pretending only the xx track exists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoj2I6ZJLx8

this movie is gonna bomb, right?

One can hope. We should have 'which will be worse Mood Indigo vs Great Gatsby' thread.

wow thats not good

will.i.am track is so so terrible it makes the others just seem like fluffy garbage tho

I feel like I know too many people who are looking forward to the film to expect it to be a flop, but I'm two songs into this sampler and yeesh.

Featuring will.i.am as Satchmo

getting irrationally angry over here

Both the movie and the soundtrack seem likely to be big hits imo

Movie is in 3D, too. Yikes.

ILE thread about Gatsby has some general talk

The Great Gatsby

you're stupid, i know it

(not you, ned, that am character)

whimper

so many things I despise at one time

poor scott -- first zelda, now this

haha

lol I read that and though "why is scott seward upset about a video game movie?"

THOUGHT

Ah shit baz killed 'heart's a mess' ;_;

"The Philadelphia Inquirer complimented Jay-Z for assembling a talented and diverse musical roster"

am I alone in possibly being into that Crazy In Love cover tho

yes

genuinely kinda disappointed that this is looking less like an enjoyable disaster and more an unbearable disaster

its sweaty bigface, of course it isn't going to be enjoyable

i was in barnes & noble the other evening and the only copy of great gatsby they had had the movie poster as its front cover

Who would buy a new copy of The Great Gatsby? Kids have been reading it in high school for decades, and used copies are certainly plentiful.

as a serious book lover i would only read the original first edition with robert redford and mia farrow on the cover

:D

the book cover should have been the movie poster

maybe t+o it up a lil

Ugh, Baz Luhrmann is the worst.

Hot mess

http://www.the-fly.co.uk/news/article/1018278/hear-andre-3000-and-beyonces-cover-of-amy-winehouses-back-to-black/

oh noooooo i am only 50 secs in but this is just...........

And this looked like it might be one of the least repellent songs on the album. :(

beyoncé only improved matters to a not-actively-horrific level but she's still singing it all wrong :(

i thought this would be INTERESTING at least

I think F Scott Fitzgerald drank himself to death after a fortune teller told him about Luhrmann's Gatsby. "Yeah, and will.i.am 's involved." "Oh fuck this life."

Any indication they'll reprise the Duncan Sheik hit from the first one?

the version of Happy Together by Filter on the trailer is excrutiating.

and - FILTER.

WHAT THE FUCK?

It is 2013!

oh man this amy cover. rip babygirl

this is very bad

like, just bad

Lana Del Rey comes off best.

i want to see a wes anderson gatsby

The gotye song is okay.

they should have just gone all the way and cast mackelmore in the role of gatsby

I want a herzogatsby

This is awful. Fuck this movie. I can't describe with words how much Baz Luhrmann's movies infuriate me.

All I remember about Moulin Rouge is walking out.

Luhrmann is horrible.

i have heard many credible or at least inventive arguments for why baz luhrmann is a great filmmaker. pomo, brechtian, Pop, whatever.

he sucks.

oh he's the guy who did moulin rouge? horrendous movie

strictly ballroom's p. good

lol at everything about this though

Kent Jones' defense of Moulin Rouge at least made me stop wanting to shred the movie.

Well, that and realizing nothing I could do could cut the movie any more drastically than had already been done in the editing room.

yeah any further and it would have been two hours of flash frames

My 16 year-old niece was talking all excitedly last night about looking forward to the movie and the soundtrack and looked at me like an, uh, curmudgeon, when I suggested that some say it might not be that great

hahahaha man, cold water very much in character

Based on that conversation, now I'm thinking I'm gonna have to be the one to defend Lurman's epic work as populist and pop-friendly, and dismiss the rest of you as crotchety rockists for disliking this!!!

"my niece made me defend this" is maybe not the sturdiest of critical foundations

I guess. Hmmmm, will have to dig into poptimist and rebel archives for a better way to make the point. Or at least the essays from defenders of Lurman's earlier efforts

the terrifying thing is i think you're serious!

lol i like the Fergie song. also i like the U2 song Jack White is covering and the snippet sounded not terrible.

"Don't idiots need a Quentin Tarantino of their own?"

but not two.

was waiting for that

lol.

Press release I got today:

THIRD MAN RECORDS PRESENTS:

THE GREAT GATSBY GOLD & PLATINUM LIMTED EDITION METALIZED RECORD SET

FEATURING FIRST EVER COMMERCIALLY RELEASED GOLD AND PLATINUM METALLIC LPs, LASER-CUT WOODEN JACKET WITH ALUMINUM SPINES

PRE-SALES FOR JUNE 11th RELEASE DATE OF STANDARD EDITION LP AVAILABLE FRIDAY MAY 10th.

See Video at http://youtu.be/BWOtFqcg7vg

Third Man Records is humbled to be a part of such a stellar confluence of literature, art and music in handling the vinyl release of the soundtrack to Baz Luhrman's The Great Gatsby.

In an effort to present an object that integrates all the inter-connected components of this release, Third Man Records has gone the extra mile with their limited-edition version of the soundtrack in pioneering a never-before released method for vinyl records.

Both LPs in the set are blindingly reflective metalized discs. Disc one is platinum and disc two is gold. These are the first-ever commercially available records made using these precious metals via this process.

Not stopping there, the records come housed in a entirely unique laser-cut wooden LP jacket riveted to aluminum spines. All of these elements (gold, platinum, aluminum, wood and brass) showcase the Art Deco-meets-modern style, classic meets cutting edge, which is the essence of The Great Gatsby film and Third Man Records.

Mere words pale in comparison to the actual physical presence of this piece, so please do check out the video here to get the full experience of the release.

These unique hand made sets will retail for $250 and Pre-Sales will be available in a limited number through the Third Man website (US only) from 9am on Friday May 10th in order to coincide with the Great Gatsby cinema release. Also on Friday the 10th, the first 100 physical copies of the set will be available in the Third Man retail store in Nashville from 10am.

In addition to the limited edition, Third Man is also announcing the release date of June 11th for the standard edition double album. The soundtrack will be on 180 gram vinyl and housed in a Gold Foil stamped gatefold sleeve. Pre-sales for this standard edition of the soundtrack will also be available on the Third Man website on Friday May 10th.

what the

This really should have included a floater for your swimming pool.

who let Amanda Palmer near the Great Gatsby soundtrack

This has nothing to do with populism. The Great Gatsby novel and most of the songs they butcher in here we're already 'pop', they didnt need this corny fucktard at all. If anything he's taking good pop and making it taste bad.

Im sure his fans disagree but fuck them too.

If anything we are the poptimists. Baz isn't pop friendly. He tries too hard to be popist and artsy at the same time and fails in both accounts. He's like the Michael Bay of art movies.

I love Third Man's packaging and their aesthetic is kinda cool.

Such beautiful shirts PLATINUM METALLIC LPs

http://cdn.trendhunterstatic.com/thumbs/jack-white.jpeg

http://thirdmanstore.com/thevault/assets/Uploads/_resampled/resizedimage600377-Gatsby-LimitedVinyl.jpg

that looks more like a technical death metal band cover than art deco.

If you squint a little, you can pretend it'sb the new Daft Punk instead.

Now that I know this director also did Moulin Rouge, all desire to see the movie has been extinguished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yef_zvyt8_w

SIMI78049 4 months ago

Hello troll. You see, this movie is based on the Red Curtain Principles of Film. Basically, many classic movies that were extremely well received in theatres several years ago. Plays included. This is just a little bit more modernized version of those ideals to me. You can go fuck off since you wouldn't understand a slight word of that. If you don't like it and want to save yourself some trouble, GET THE FUCK OFF. Nobody wants to hear you bitch. Dumbshit.

those are slight words.

I tried googling Red Curtain Principles of Film and as far as I can tell, it's just something that Baz Luhrman made up, but I can't find a definition anywhere. Am I correct on this?

oh wait, here it is:

The Red Curtain style of film making was devised by Luhrmann with certain specifics in mind that serve to actively promote audience participation. These are: 1) the audience knows how it will end right from the start; 2) the storyline is thin and simple; 3) the world created in the film is one of heightened reality; and 4) there is to be a specific device driving the story, whether it be dance, iambic pentameter or characters bursting out in song.

i went to paris from denmark on a bus with other american students, who insisted on watching amelie (fine) and moulin rouge (ahhh!) on the way over. i was sick of the idea of paris before i got there, basically. paris itself though was still awesome.

"red curtain" just makes me think of soviet bureaucrats sipping black tea in nicely upholstered, oversized offices

It makes *me* think of the Dukes of Stratosphear

Third Man Records is humbled to be a part of such a stellar confluence of literature, art and music

What a stellar confluence.