The first meeting, the first date, the sex is like melody whereas, when you get to know a person better, when you want to know the other person more intimately, that is lyrics.
The opening “Pop” depicting the ’80s music video was hilariously & cheesy-ly perfect and down-right classic. Any MTV and Channel V fan would know for sure that this is like one of those typical ’80s hits - the melody, the lyric, the checkered backdrops, longishly big hair, awkward acting, hilarious dance and those big music synthesizer. Hugh Grant looked really like one of those singer/dancer of the ’80s and it was fun seeing him there when “Pop Goes my Heart”. If I had paid my ticket just for this album from the “Pop” band, it would have suffice my time well spent at the movie theatre. Btw, don’t miss the captioning of the Album at the end of the movie during the credit roll. Just be there and watch, read the captions, just don’t leave like all the other patrons. You’ll love that part too.
I enjoyed the one and half hour of Music and Lyrics as much as or rather equally as The Holidays. Music and Lyrics was released last Friday here in India though US saw it on Valentine’s Day. The romantic quirks between Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant) and Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore) are pleasant to watch and so sweet to listen to.
Alex Fletcher is a “has-been” pop star, whose fame and fortune from the ’80s group “Pop” have given ways to the new teenage sensations. Alex makes ends meet by playing county fairs and stag parties, creaking his way through trademark hip thrusts. He meets Sophie Fisher and ask her to write the lyric for a spiritual budha-hindu-sex combo teen sensation Cora Corman (Haley Bennett).
The movie also sort of makes a comic satire of the current music ‘industry’. Cora’s Budhism-in-Bikini masala-ed with Namaste-Hindu-Indian chorus seem to brought her tremendous success. It won’t be right to call it a mockery of the music industry but it touches the cords at the right places.
On the whole, Music and Lyrics is a wholesomely nice & sweet, ticklishly funny romantic movie.
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