Mads! I was so excited when I read your last post about Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, it reminded me of a post I started all the way back in February that got pushed to the bottom of the stack, but now seems like the perfect time! This winter I started the Netflix version of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist which is called Soundtrack.
The first line of the show is “every song’s a love song” with the intro of “Shot at the Night” by The Killers playing in the background, I mean come on, how can I not keep watching. Each episode is titled after two characters and the episode tends to focus on those two people, eventually seeing how all of the lives are interwoven.
While both of these shows incorporate pop music into each episode, it seems that in Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist the music is used as a unique characteristic of the plot and being a sort of supernatural power whereas in Soundtrack the music takes on a life similar to musicals in that the songs are placed in the show to amplify intense emotion. Also different from Zoey’s, the characters themselves do not actually sing the songs in Soundtrack as its more like a lip-synch music video and none of the characters acknowledge the music breaks which again is similar to a musical. While I have not seen Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist I think that I will totally love it, we can never have enough singing and dancing, right??
Now I want to talk more about Soundtrack individually. All it took was the first minute and a half and I was so enthralled, Maddie if you don’t want to tackle another show (you’ve never not wanted too haha) I seriously recommend giving the first minute a view (Is this bait? Absolutely. Will it be worth your time? 100%). Not only does it set the mood and the lens for the rest of the show, but alone it is this beautiful speech about love and song. My overall takeaway is that Soundtrack is a love letter to life and you know me and my poet’s heart just eat that stuff up. I want to try really hard not to spoil a thing because the first episode especially has a similarly special place in my heart as Mamma Mia 2 (that story is for another time…) but seriously the way this show paints love (both lost and found), heartache, TIME, and healing so incredibly beautifully just captured my heart. While there is so much pain these characters are just burning with love, pouring all they are into their dreams, and clinging with all they have to hope.
One last point I want to bring up is I had no idea about the musical aspect of this show when I first started it and was actually very surprised when Nellie just broke out into a lip-synch of Sia’s “Elastic Heart” and started dancing with the entire restaurant. Not going to lie I thought it was really weird until Sam lip-synched “Between Me and You” by Brandon Flowers (lead singer of The Killers!), and Nellie went again but instead of Sia she lip-synched Amy Winehouse, so maybe I’m just not a fan of Sia (:/ sorry Sia)
Ahh okay, I’m going to leave you with that until you’ve had a chance to watch it! Spoiler-free really is the way to be especially with a show about characters as interwoven as this one.
-hp
p.s. Sam is my favorite, and I think you will love Nellie’s best friends because they are hilarious.
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