That's How You Know--the scene this song accompanies is surely one of the most adorable musical sequences you'll get this year. The soundtrack version of the song I'm posting does (sometimes necessarily) miss out on some of the things that make the song in the movie so great, including Patrick Dempsey's adorable asides and expressions (yes, we're kind of used to this sort of thing now in the post-Shrek world, where one character stands off to the side and tries not to get caught up in the fairytaleness of it all, but he does it really well). Taking some influences from the Little Mermaid's "Kiss The Girl" in performance and Jamaican influence (among a bunch of other references you'll spot during the scene), "That's How You Know" is an adorable (yes, that word again--I can't help using it a bunch of times when talking about this movie) song performed by Amy Adams that starts out kind of traditional Disney song and then gets more fun and ebullient and irresistible as it goes along. It does sound like a song from a musical or movie, not the sort of thing you hear on the radio, but it's very much worth listening to on its own. And I promise you, the movie is even better than this makes it look (if you're worried that it's sickly sweet, it's not; it is very sweet, but it's also very well done).
To buy the soundtrack for Enchanted, go here (physical) or, if you live in the U.S., you can buy it from iTunes.
Next up: maybe an American singer.
*Though I just bothered to look it up and she's done a bunch of bigger films as well--I guess I just associate her with stuff like Junebug.
2 comments:
i am DYING to see this, i really can't wait. It doesn't open here for a couple of weeks yet so i may have to wait (slightly illegal dvd screener copy not withstanding) I'm eager to get the soundtrack too - i'm a total whore for all things disney, and can't wait to see Jim and Pat on the big screen!
Oh, Paul, I loved it! But I'm very predictable that way. I hope you do too, though! Jon McLaughlin, who I've written about a couple of times before, has a really good singer-songwritery sort of song on the soundtrack as well and appears for a couple of seconds in the movie.
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