Music From the Motion Picture Josie And The Pussycats

Music From the Motion Picture Josie And The Pussycats Review

This album is so much FUN. The singer of the soundtrack is lead vocalist "Kay Hanley" of the 90's band "Letters To Cleo". "Kay Hanley" does no appearances in the movie nor is she on the artwork to this CD. She just did the singing voice of the chick who plays "Josie" the lead of "Josie & The Pussycats". She does a good job on all the songs. The only songs that I DO NOT like on this album are the two Ralph Dujour songs we really couldv'e done without those pathetic songs. The CD is predominatley "Kay hanley" so you might forget it's an actual soundtrack until you come across those two songs. This Soundtrack is another one of the CD's that made my "Straight Through Collection" because I USUALLY enjoy playing it all-the-through and every "Kay Hanley" track is #1 hit in my book. All the songs are upbeat & power-pop except for the acoustic song "You Don't See Me" which is also a favorite of mine and it shows a completely different side to "Kay", It's very "Mandy Moore". It's so cool of her to have done this soundtrack, I enjoyed every minute of it. If you enjoyed this soundtrack check out the "10 Things I Hate About You" Soundtrack which features more vocals from "Kay Hanley" in her band "Letters To Cleo" on songs like "I Want You To Want Me" and The HOT cover of Nick Lowe's "Cruel To Be Kind" She sounds exactly how she sounds on this soundtrack, You'll love it. I hope she does more fun stuff like this in the future.

Music From the Motion Picture Josie And The Pussycats Overview

With the likes of Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger, former Letters to Cleo singer Kay Hanley, and Matthew Sweet on board, the soundtrack album for the live-action update of the beloved Archie Comics spinoff boasts some of the best rock & roll made for a Hollywood flick since Schlesinger wrote That Thing You Do's title tune. Fast, guitars-cranked power pop with Hanley's voice-of-Josie supplying the songs' sassy attitude, the music puts across a sisterly stance that fans of the Donnas and the Go-Go's will recognize. Program out the two frighteningly realistic boy-group pastiches by the fictional DuJour and maybe the Pussycats' sole draggy moment (Couldn't the producers at least have sped up the lame love ballad "You Don't See Me"?) and this is one feisty howl of a CD. Hope for a volume 2. --Rickey Wright

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