Click and go to my friend Edward Hsu’s blog post “Effective Theme Songs in Movies”
I grew up enjoying and playing music. Although I haven’t gone anywhere with it, my love of music never faded, and I’m always deeply moved when I hear a great soundtrack from a movie that is just so epic and fitting. Time is a funny thing. No matter how great a movie is, we may forget its plot and most of its lines as years go by, but sometimes the music sticks with us. Perhaps I’ve already forgotten the storyline of the Lion King, but I will always remember the time being tucked into a seemingly gigantic seat in a theater at the age of four, looking up and listening to the magnificent rendition of “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” by Elton John in awe.
With all that being said, I think it’s important for a movie to have a magnificent theme song that is remembered by many if the movie is to go down in history as one of the greats. No wonder film makers spend big bucks in hiring world class composers to construct songs.
I figured I should end my last marketing blog of the term with a couple of movie soundtracks I absolutely love. Laters!
Somewhere in Time
Hold On
and lastly… One of my all-time favorite Chinese songs, a soundtrack to a hit TV series in China, “I Wanna Tell You”