Music and Lyrics

Yesterday I went to the cinema and saw the movie “Music and Lyrics” staring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. It is a romantic comedy and I enjoyed it. It’s never going to be a big classic for me in the genre romantic comedies like “Four Weddings and a funeral” or “Dirty Dancing” – but still, it was a very nice movie. The most surprising thing for me though was that Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore actually do their own singing. Drew Barrymore only sings on one song, but Hugh Grant does several – and he is actually not a terrible singer. He is not the best singer I’ve heard, but still, who would’ve thought that he could even be as good as he is on these songs.

I downloaded the soundtrack from iTunes yesterday and I must say I like quite a few of the songs. The “Way back into love”, “Dance with me tonight”, “Meaningless kiss” (is also somewhat very similar to George Michael’s “Careless Whisper” which is probably also intended since the song supposedly was a hit in the 80s) and “Don’t write me off” are nice love songs, and I really like the rhythm’s for “Buddha’s delight” with Haley Bennet, there’s something in it that reminds me of Shakira I think.

Hugh Grant has always been one of the men that I really like, I’ve used to think he’s drop dead gorgeous, but now… he’s getting old! But then again, I guess that he might have been made to look a bit older in this movie too because he is playing the role of a has-been pop star from the 80s. I did see an interview with him recently though, and… he did look a bit old. Drew Barrymore however does not look old, and the two of them together is actually a bit…eh, not so nice… she looks at least 20 years younger than him.

But as I said: all in all a nice romantic comedy with some really enjoyable music as well.

The saddest thing probably was that I had to see it on my own, and seeing a romantic movie on your own, well that’s praying to be left with the blues afterwards, isn’t it?