Brandy likened being hand-selected for Cinderella by a performer she idolizes to a real-life fairy tale,[32] accepting the role because she already had successful singing and acting careers, in addition to relating to the main character in several ways.[33] The fact that Cinderella is traditionally depicted as white did not discourage Brandy from pursuing the role.[34] Having grown up watching Caucasian actresses portray Cinderella, Houston felt that 1997 was "a good time" to cast a woman of color as the titular character, claiming the choice to use a multi-cultural cast "was a joint decision" among the producers,[35] who agreed that every "generation [should] have their own 'Cinderella'."[16] Executive producer Debra Martin Chase explained that, despite enjoying Warren's performance as Cinderella, she and Houston "realized we never saw a person of color playing Cinderella", explaining, "To have a black Cinderella ... is just something. I know it was important for Whitney to leave this legacy for her daughter."[29] Chase hoped that the film mirroring an evolving society "will touch every child and the child in every adult",[19] encouraging "children of all colors [to] dream."[26] One Disney executive would have preferred to have a white Cinderella and black Fairy Godmother and suggested singer-songwriter Jewel for the titular role.[16] The producers refused,[36] insisting that "The whole point of this whole thing was to have a black Cinderella."[16] Zadan maintains that Brandy was the only actress they had considered for the role, elaborating, "it's important to mention because it shows that even at that moment there was still resistance to having a black Cinderella. People were clearly still thinking, 'Multicultural is one thing, but do we have to have two black leads?"[16]
Brandy found the recording process "challenging" because the film's songs were different than any material she had recorded before, explaining that she was nervous since her "voice wasn't fully developed", especially in comparison to her idol Houston and at times struggling to project.[32] Houston would encourage the singer to "Sing from your gut" as opposed to singing from her chest in order to get her to sing louder.[32] Goldberg, who is not primarily known as a singer, also provided her own vocals for the film, by which some of the filmmakers and cast were pleasantly surprised; Goldberg found the process somewhat difficult due to being surrounded by several professional singers, namely Houston, Brandy and Peters.[4] The studio originally planned to release an original soundtrack featuring the film's music.[12] However, this idea was abandoned due to conflicts between Houston and Brandy's respective record labels.[55]
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Khalid joined WATTS (opens in new tab) for a new version of the rising singer-songwriter's 2018 single, "Feels," creating a peaceful, calm vibe only Khalid could successfully achieve with otherwise angsty lyrics about fighting feelings.
This beautiful song book for piano & voice "Esther, For Such a Time as This", available as a digital download, tells the riveting story of the time when Jews in ancient Persia faced a foe named Haman, and how a brave young queen risked her life to save her people.
And when they start reading white-key notes on the staff, this is a fun easy resource to say each week, "Choose a new black-key song at home this week and figure it out to show me next lesson!" They will be spending more time at the piano.
Corden even had the movie's first song picked out: Dolly Parton's "9 to 5," sung by Cinderella as she tumbles out of bed to endure another day of all taking and no giving. "And I thought, 'Well, we won't do '9 to 5,' because that's an Oscar-nominated song from a very famous movie,'" she says. "But the idea of using contemporary songs really modernizes it in a way that's super cool."
Which just left the daunting task of picking which popular songs to use for the movie's many musical numbers. Over Zoom, Cannon walks ET through the soundtrack track by track, opening up about her creative process, sharing behind-the-song secrets and revealing the Beyoncé song that didn't make the movie.
This original song serves as Cinderella's theme song throughout the movie: "If it's a million to one / I'm gonna be that onе." Cabello co-wrote the track with Scott Harris, who is responsible for her latest single, "Don't Go Yet," and most of Shawn Mendes' biggest hits.
Queen's 1976 chart topper was the first song Cannon selected for the movie, a gospel choir-backed take on "Somebody to Love" sung by Nicholas Galitzine's Prince Robert after his father, King Rowan (Pierce Brosnan), proclaims that a ball will be thrown to find Robert a bride.
First, off, it's such an amazing song. I understand why it's in so many movies. It's just an amazing song. But the king literally says, "You will find somebody. You will find someone to love," and I felt like I could do it in a new way. I felt like, "I can take this classic, amazing song and show it in a new way. And hopefully people won't be too mad about that, because it's been used in so many other films." After that, it was pretty hard. I did a lot of demos. I'd fall in love with a song and then we'd do the demo, and it wouldn't work as well.
"Am I Wrong" was really hard to come by. And I love it so much, because I think it might be surprising to people, for that to be in the movie. It just feels like it works so well with every character in our story singing that song as they prepare for the ball. It's all about having doubt and, "Am I wrong to believe that this can be a thing?" So, it works on many levels. And I really love how [music director] Keith Harrison arranged that vocally and musically.
We had a rap leading up to it and it was arranged in, I thought, this really cool way. It was one of the first things I had to cut from the movie, and we all creatively agreed that it should be cut, but it was huge. It was massive in scope. So, I didn't end up using it. [It probably won't be released as a deleted scene because] that song is so expensive. [Laughs] Just play it at home and then you see them dancing to it.
It breaks my brain. It's like, I also wouldn't have used a Shawn Mendes song. I think people would get nosebleeds and their heads would crack and just be like, "Wait, what?! What's happening?" And Camila was really protective, too. Very smartly, she was always pushing to use a classic song that 10 years from now, you could watch the movie and it not feel dated. And so that was our North Star, to try to find things that we would really enjoy later and not be, like, flash in the pans.
The movie's second original song goes to Idina Menzel's evil -- or is she? -- stepmother, a cynical rock opera number penned by Menzel and songwriter Laura Veltz and sung by all the ladies in the cast. (Check out an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at "Dream Girl" music video above.)
Cannon told Insider that each character has their own genre of music throughout the movie, which explains the range. For example, the Prince and his friends were meant to be like The Strokes, which is why they sing a lot of rock songs like The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army."
The TV show Cheers was nearly canceled after its first season, but the theme song, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name," was very popular. To satisfy viewer demand, the theme was made into a full song and released as a single.
The site for this indie flick starts off with an introductory message from the flick's director, Michael Showalter, which is pretty cool. The menus are at the top of the page. In News, the only news is that the website is active, but we already know that, don't we? In About, you can read about the story or the movie's production. Under Cast, you can click on one of the cast member's photo to get a biography, and you get similar bio's under Filmmakers. Under Press there is only an article in Premiere Magazine, but more will be added and the Downloads section is a little different, since they have actual songs from the soundtrack that you can download, as well as a video clip and some audio commentary. The Behind the Scenes and Journal sections are coming soon. Overall, this is a pretty good site, with plenty to do before this flick opens on August 12 in limited release. 2ff7e9595c
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