Have movie theme songs gone missing?

The Associated Press remembers a time when one “couldn’t help but hear ‘My Heart Will Go On,’ the soaring Celine Dion ballad from Titanic,” and wonders where those times, and great movie theme songs, have gone. The answer is to Hell, where they were sent by a just and loving God who hated “Up Where We Belong” as much as I did. Grammy-winning songwriter Jesse Harris thinks filmmakers just don’t care enough anymore to specialize their soundtracks with original songs. He thinks music has gotten far too genre-specific for a movie theme song to generate the mass appeal it once did. He’s on the right track. But whereas it once took considerable effort to produce something lame enough for An Officer and a Gentleman, nowadays lame music is the norm, and doing anything more than scanning the radio for soundtrack filler would be a wasted effort.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

November 15, 2007 in Kiefaber | Permalink