rolotomasi99 wrote:the preppy gays, the sporty gays, the hipster gays, the moneyed gays.[/b]
Which group do you belong to..?
The song is so bad I couldn't even hear it till the end. But I guess it could easily win.
rolotomasi99 wrote:the preppy gays, the sporty gays, the hipster gays, the moneyed gays.[/b]
It's worth remembering that Eminem's victory came for another song that was played on the radio a lot and actually came second in Pazz N Jop's poll.Mister Tee wrote:Once the Bad Song was purged, this ended up a halfway credible slate -- certainly by the standards of this benighted branch.
"Happy" is indeed super-infectious, but I'd offer a few cautions: 1) The version in the movie doesn't showcase it as well as what's on YouTube -- like "I Just Called to Say I Love You" or "Mrs. Robinson", what plays in the film is but a snippet of the hit version. So, you're counting on voters -- some of whom are still struggling with the whole computer thing -- to stray from their DVD players to get the full effect. 2) I once trusted the fact that I kept hearing a song every time I went to a bar around Oscar season to justify picking "Somewhere Out There" to top "Take My Breath Away". It didn't.
I'd also cite "Are they watching the movie for any other reason?" as a point in favor of "The Moon Song". Long, long ago, Michael Jackson had a top-three hit with "Ben", and it seemed right into Oscar night like the favorite. But a lot more Academy folk, because of 8 nominations including supporting actress, had seen The Poseidon Adventure, and "The Morning After" came from seemingly nowhere to snatch the best song prize. We're assuming that enough Academy voters are watching her to merit its possibly winning best original screenplay; might not some of those voters mark it down for best song, as well? (And, of course, it'd be an additional chance for Spike Jonze to win)
I've heard some people touting "Ordinary Love", because, you know, it's U2, and they notably lost to Eminem 12 years ago. But I don't see any scenario as favorable to them as I do to all the others.
Yeah, "Let It Go" is probably still the winner, though I can't understand it -- for me, it's another slice of "The Song That Sounds Like This". But 400 million dollars probably won't be wrong. Though the best song category, at least in the early years of the millennium, has shown a tendency to surprise, and maybe this'll be another such instance.
A couple weeks ago I went with my cousin to a gay bar in D.C. We had no idea that it was Musicals Monday, with televisions all around the bar playing a variety of show-tunes. They played the hits from the big gay divas (with mostly the older guys singing along) as well as some Disney tunes (with mostly the younger guys singing along). However, when this music video started up...Mister Tee wrote:Yeah, "Let It Go" is probably still the winner, though I can't understand it -- for me, it's another slice of "The Song That Sounds Like This". But 400 million dollars probably won't be wrong. Though the best song category, at least in the early years of the millennium, has shown a tendency to surprise, and maybe this'll be another such instance.
U2 has been promoting their song very hard. They've just performed it live at the Jimmy fallon showksrymy wrote:Mark my words: This Thursday, "Happy" takes #1 on the charts and becomes the first #1 hit to win an Oscar since "Lose Yourself."
Funny enough, U2 will have lost both times.
Amen.Eric wrote: History's probably not going to look kindly on this one going to the Disney ballad.
I was really looking forward to this moment as well, but alas we will never know how wonderfully awful it would have been.Sabin wrote:5. "Alone Yet Not Alone"
Ye. Gods.
Even worse than the song are the clips from the film that accompany the music video. This movie so clearly fucking sucks. I can't wait to see the Oscar audience sit slack-jawed at an awful Christian song sung before them by a quadriplegic woman. I love watching the machine break down. I love watching moments of random chaos inserted into something controlled. I have a feeling that this is going to be a good one.