sojournseeker's Full Review: What Women Want by Original Soundtrack
Finally A Man in Tune with the Feminine that is served well on a ‘bed of the finest lettuce-selection of songs that fit the movies like a satin glove or pair of thigh-high stockings over rice‘. A mixture of old and new are the songs this soundtrack brought me home too, a peaceful easy knowing that if you can communicate with harmony in song you can communicate in love with heart.
We can look to the soundtrack as a wrap-around, the bow around a really great present to the art of communication when we recall what the movie was about. But this is not a movie review, but a review on the appropriate music used to embellish the character’s reason for being exactly “What Women Want”, so I will spare the comparative analysis. However, the character is superbly performed by Mel Gibson, the sexiest man from down under who can truly digg his soul and work his roles.
The soundtrack is a great addition to his and Helen Hunt, the women who finally gets all she wants, roles. When he sings with Sinatra you see better then the ‘dean martin and ole blue eyes‘ duets made famous in the late fifties to early sixties. Those singers were part of the legendary crooners and when you hear either I won’t Dance or Too Marvelous For Words recalling the scenes they were used in well you just see a connection the aussie has with legends.
The great artists and their songs featured are listed alphabetically by artists last name, number of track proceeds with artist then title. # 10 Christina Aguilera (What A Girl Wants); #6 Tony Bennett (The Good Life), #5 Meredith Brooks (B*t*H); #7 Bobby Darin (Mack the Knife); #1 Sammy Davis Jr.(Something’s Gotta Give); #9 Ninenna Freelon (If I had You); #13 Peggy Lee (I’ve Got The World on a String); #11, Lou Rawls (Nobody But Me); #14 Alan Silvestre (Everything About You); #2 Frank Sinatra (Too Marvelous For Words); #8 Frank Sinatra (I’ve got You Under My Skin); #12 The Temptations (Night and Day); and #3 Nancy Wilson (The Best Is Yet To Come).
The soundtrack was released the same year the movie was, a beautiful 2000. The orchestration skills of conductor Alan Silvestri is refreshing because he makes every instrument come alive pouring more vibrance into the characters roles. Tunes like Mack the Knife, B*t*H, What A Girl Wants-- are quite catchy where you would be dancing in the aisles but the lyrics chosen also 'speak volumes' in a universal language echoing desire to be really listened to not just heard.
Track number five, B*t*H by Meredith Brooks is probably one of the most interesting picks that Alan Silvestri chose. It is also one of my favorite of the more popular right next to What A Girl Wants by Christina Aquilera because as I see it we are what these women sing about and need what these women croon passionately over so why not include the better half of the evolutionary circle ? Both are catchy tunes that were already popular before the soundtrack picked them up but it fits for some of what Mel picks up when he is not supposed to be paying attention too what us females expect from males, and vice versa. Go back in time or forward and really listen to love when you least expect it to be calling . . .The soundtrack format is a CD that can be played in your car, home, affice or even, boat.
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