{"id":704,"date":"2007-05-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2007\/05\/soundtrack_scuttlebutt\/"},"modified":"2007-05-11T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T08:00:00","slug":"soundtrack_scuttlebutt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2007\/05\/soundtrack_scuttlebutt\/","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack Scuttlebutt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><B>CATEGORY: CAR AD SOUNDTRACK WITH &#8220;CELEBRITY&#8221;<\/B><br \/>\nElvis Costello playing air guitar to Beethoven&#8217;s Ninth in his Lexus ad beats out his wife Diana Krall raving on about Oscar Peterson in hers. (Who hogs the remote in that ride?) But would anybody buy a car from Elvis? Seems telling that neither of these are posted yet on youtube. We&#8217;re still waiting for Paul and Yoko to <b>Dance with the Stars<\/b>.<br \/>\n<b>CATEGORY: GREAT USE OF GOOD SONG BY GREAT ARTIST IN DECENT FLICK<\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Bring on the Lucie&#8221; by John Lennon, from <B>Mind Games<\/b>, closing credits to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0206634\/\" target=\"_blank\">Children of Men<\/A>. This soundtrack had hints of intelligence early on when it framed the elitist art baron&#8217;s scene with Greg Lake&#8217;s bloviating &#8220;Court of the Crimson King.&#8221; There was little irony. But that was just semi-respectable use of a bad song for a bad scene in a very good film. At the end, after watching a black baby humble a fierce battle and Clive Owen slump over dead in the rowboat (no Christ ID!), Lennon&#8217;s throwaway took on added resonance, as if he&#8217;d composed it with Iraq in mind. Anyway, it was both a shock and a pleasure, and sent us away grinning. Honorary mention: Michael Caine&#8217;s air guitar noise.<br \/>\nHomework: has anybody come up with a definitive list of good\/bad use of Beatle tracks in movies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CATEGORY: CAR AD SOUNDTRACK WITH &#8220;CELEBRITY&#8221; Elvis Costello playing air guitar to Beethoven&#8217;s Ninth in his Lexus ad beats out his wife Diana Krall raving on about Oscar Peterson in hers. (Who hogs the remote in that ride?) But would anybody buy a car from Elvis? Seems telling that neither of these are posted yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}