Soundtrack
Monday Morning Music — #6
Music is Life
If you’re watching Ted Lasso, then you know “football is life!”
Well, if you’re a music fan, music is life.
Music has the ability to capture certain moments in time and freeze them. It’s what makes their use in cinema so important. The right song, or music, in the right scene in the right movie can heighten the tension.
If you’ve seen The Godfather, no matter where you are, if you hear anything from Nino Rota’s haunting soundtrack, images from The Godfather will flood your psyche.
The same holds true for the Simple Minds track, “Don’t You (Forget About Me).” If you are familiar with the John Hughes movie, The Breakfast Club, then even reading this sentence may populate your head with an image from the film.
The right song or music in the right scene is transcendent and has the ability to embed both image and song in your head for life.
For me, ground zero for the modern marriage of film and popular music is Saturday Night Fever. That opening scene of John Travolta strutting down the street in his form fitting leather and polyester, holding a paint can to the Bee Gee’s “Staying Alive” is so…
