How To: Listen Like a Musicologist

Hot and Bothered

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The music of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days runs the gamut from country-pop songs to whimsical orchestrations. To the modern ear, it all sounds very specific to an early 2000s rom-com moment. This week, to help us understand that moment and the history of movie music more broadly, we have Julie Hubbert on the show.

Julie Hubbert is the LaDare Robinson Memorial Professor of Music at the University of South Carolina. She's the writer of Technology, Listening, and Labor: Music in New Hollywood Film (1967-1980) and Celluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History among other works.

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0:00.0	In 1995 I was 13 years old and I went to the movie theater to see Empire Records with my friend Joanne.
0:08.0	I fell in love with Ethan Embry watching that movie.
0:12.0	There is a moment in which he is dusting while doing some ballet to a
0:16.2	song that I had never heard of, but I loved that song. With my birthday money I went to Tower Records and bought the Empire Records soundtrack.
0:27.2	That song was not on the soundtrack. I was heartbroken, although it is a really great soundtrack. I gave it up as a lost
0:37.1	cause I would never know what that song was
0:45.0	rheventially yahoo was invented it was Romeo and Juliet by dire straits
0:50.0	soundtracks and scores are so important to movies and romcoms have a particular relationship to those scores and soundtracks.
0:58.0	Rom coms tend to hinge on big musical moments probably because of their relationship to early musicals.
1:06.0	There are certain romcoms, you tell me the song, I'll tell you the movie.
1:11.0	Can't take my eyes off of you? Ten things I hate about you.
1:14.0	The way you look tonight?
1:16.0	My best friend's wedding.
1:17.0	In your eyes?
1:18.0	Say anything.
1:20.0	You're so vain.
1:21.0	How to lose a guy in 10 days.
1:23.4	Your so vain comes up early in the movie
1:27.1	when Andy is trying to turn off Ben with her appreciation for angry girl music.
1:32.1	She sings it to Ben on an early date. Then when they break up in the
1:36.6	climactic moment of the film they sing slash scream it at each other in front of 200 people at a a diamond-themed party. You've been bury you're so bad.
1:58.0	Probably think this song is about you, don't you, don't you? Music also underscores and helps you figure out what to feel while watching a movie.
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