'Sex and the City' Gets a New Theme Song
Filed under: Comedy, Romance, Warner Brothers, Fandom, Movie Marketing, HBO Films
There is nothing new about the debate over rampant commercialism and Sex and the City. So, I'm not even going to go into whether empowerment can be achieved through shopping. But, Fergie's new theme song for the big-screen SATC has hit the web, and she has no qualms about making an ode to designer labels. Titled Labels or Love, the track sounds like a My Humps redux, and frankly, it's pretty awful. For starters, throughout most of the song I had a hard time understanding what she was even saying. But when you can make out the lyrics, they include such philosophical statements as: "Love is a like a runway," "Stop chasing those boys and shop some more," and "No emotional baggage, just replace it with Dior."Fans of the show have been awaiting the feature film version with bated breath since the news first hit, and the fever pitch has only risen now that Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker have been letting the spoilers fly. Unfortunately, SATC was never really my thing, so I only have a passing curiosity to see how they translate Carrie and the gang on the screen. One thing is for sure, if this theme song is an indication of the music for the movie, I definitely won't be buying the soundtrack.
Take a listen and tell me what you think: Did Fergie improve upon the original? Or is this track best reserved for the closing credits?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-24-2008 @ 5:23PM
khia213 said...
I made it through 19 seconds of that song before my head threatened to explode.
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4-24-2008 @ 11:30PM
mikull said...
Oh look! Something shiny!
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6-01-2008 @ 10:40AM
Jennifer Rice said...
I don't care what anyone says, I love, love, LOVE the show and now the movie. they ar egreat girls.
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7-23-2008 @ 6:43AM
Kathy Simons said...
What a disappointment the movie was. I am a huge fan of the series and was rooting for the movie - not in a 'better be good' way but 'can't wait to see what they've done with it' sort of way.
Well, what they did with it, they should have left in the bag and at least just regurgitated what was good about the series. Alas, that was not to happen.
Since music is the subject of this review, I have to say one of the huge failing of the movie was it's terrible use of music, and the urgent need to throw some of in at full volume to try and make up for what is lacking in content is nothing short of sad.
My guess is that once the checks started coming, the writers and producers and directors involved were all to dollar-signed to care and make this a vehicle from which the characters could soar. Rather, it ended up being a vehicle that you see on the side of the road. You hate to look. It's bad. But you just can't turn away.
Once I realized the movie was going to be bad (right about the point where Carrie clobbers big over the head with her bouquet) I started to at least have something to look forward to... the next scene to hate or despise. The writers weren't about to make me wait long. Mexico. Stupid. California. Stupid. Oh yea, New York. Stupid. St. Louis. Pointless AND stupid.
So, given the horrible premise, lack of overall arc to the story other than 'we are getting married', oh, 'we aren't getting married' and then 'okay, so now I'm cleaning up after the non-wedding', there is nothing to hold onto. We've already experienced all these scenes before in more dramatic and clever ways in various episodes. A couple new jokes (feeling old) do not a movie make.
Too bad, because had they played their cards right, they might have given themselves a new audience from which to count many more checks over the years. Instead, they alienated fans, gave nothing to people with new interest, and ended up splitting the baby down the middle. No baby. No kidding.
If this movie were a musical, it would be an unfinished aria - full of unbarred phrases, with no unity between them, joined by a 2 1/2 hour metered click which only served to speed up the action and slow it down at the most irrelevant of times.
Too bad Darren Star didn't have the heart or creative vision to put this back into the oven until it was done - I guess Carrie isn't the only one who had ended up being bad in the kitchen.
Nuff said. Skip the sucker. It sucked.
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