Sorry to KPop Demon Hunters and its runaway chances at winning Best Original Song at this year's Oscars, but there have been only a few times in my life that a group of words so poetic yet so simple have struck me to my core, and none with the swiftness and urgency of the chorus of Ice Spice's new song, "Big Guy," from The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants.
While Gatwa's character is yet to be revealed, Erivo, best-known as wicked witch of the west Elphaba, will be voicing Jayne Staplegun, a trailblazing fairy whose defiant streak sparks a rebellion. The film, which is currently in production, is being directed by Megan Nicole Dong and Olivier Staphylas. The soundtrack will include songs from Tony-winning duo Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. Isabella Summers, of Florence + The Machine fame, is also involved and KPop Demon Hunters composer Ian Eisendrath, who worked on the first Wicked film, is the executive music producer.
You're hearing an R&B intro sung a cappella by Rumi, the main character. It almost has a Mary J. Blige tragic heaviness to it. And then as the other singers come in, Zoey and Mira, what you end up with is something like an up-tempo club number. It doesn't quite go full EDM, but it does feel like it's designed for a Hamilton- esque chant along. What started as a tender, warm, introspective ballad ends up as a powerful fight song.
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When four top film studio musicians formed the Hollywood String Quartet in the late 1930s, its name was presumed an oxymoron. Exalted string quartet devotees belittled film soundtracks, while studio heads had a reputation for shunning classical music longhairs.
