Monday 12 October 2009

Twilight New Moon Soundtrack is awful already, say fans

30-second clips of each song on the Twilight: New Moon soundtrack have been posted on the UK Amazon website. Bad times.

Unpredictably however, the fanbase has erupted not with excitement, but with... criticism? :S

A YouTube video featuring all 15 clips, while it has received nearly 120000 views in 3 days, has been met with fan comments like "wow this really sucks ass" (pun unintended), "this suks i loved the twilight album :( this one just sucks", "I don't like the choice of songs" and of course the inevitable "Full Movies @ Watchitfree/org Lots of movies to choose from!". Tut.

But these Twilighters are actually criticising something bearing the sacred brand?? WWTM had to check it out.

They're pretty much right, actually. To summarise, the album consists mainly of generically angsty indie and alternative tracks, with a couple of slower, more indulgent songs (notably "Possibility", in which unknown singer/songwriter Lykke Li drowns dramatically in her own reverb) and the ONE score track by Oscar-nominated composer Alexandre Desplat (of Golden Compass and Benjamin Button fame) - "The Meadow". With a late classical melancholy character, this one's actually quite pretty, but it's the best of a bad bunch.

If you want to check it out go here.

Otherwise, you'd be better off getting a look at Michael Giacchino's adorable soundtrack to Up, released on EMI tomorrow.

-WWTM x

1 comment:

  1. They gave Hardwicke a lot of flack for being an 'indie chick". They should tone that crap doen a notch. She's the ONE who made Twilight magical. New Moon is a slick, commercialized piece of crap. The music was beyond bad. Not just the song choices from the various artists, but that rediculous background music was the WORST! Bring back the original composer and give Breaking Dawn back to Hardwicke. The idiots at Summit gave movies that WOMEN are flocking to see to men to direct. Leave it to greedy bureaucrats to ruin a good thing. Eclipse will not have the same opening that New Moon did, I guarantee it. Summit got greedy and tried to lure men into the franchise with the new director and ended up alienating both sides. It still has it's fans, of course, but this time there are a lot more critics of NM than Twilight. Again...give BD back to Hardwicke.

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