{"id":40781,"date":"2008-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/juno\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T00:00:00","slug":"juno","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/juno\/","title":{"rendered":"Juno"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most pleasant surprises in popular music is Juno<\/i>\u2019s extended run on the Billboard charts. Picking up with the \u201clittle movie that could\u201d tag that was bestowed on the $100-million plus indie hit, the soundtrack\u2019s success is equally compelling. Think of it \u2013 in the March 5 list of the Billboard Top 10 Albums, a soundtrack featuring Belle & Sebastian, The Moldy Peaches, Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground and Cat Power [Ed.’s Note: And let’s not forget Mott The Hoople…]<\/i> is snug up against the Hannah Montana soundtrack and Janet Jackson\u2019s latest album. And judging by the lackluster sales of Janet Jackson\u2019s album, it looks like Juno<\/i> will probably still be in the Top 10 when Jackson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> drops off. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

The last successful soundtrack by artists who generally didn\u2019t see the light of day on the Billboard charts was O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/i> But unlike O Brother<\/i>, which introduced millions of new listeners to a new type of music (heavily steeped in tradition), Juno<\/i> is mostly warm and familiar. The Kinks\u2019 well-known hit \u201cA Well Respected Man\u201d is featured, not to mention \u201cSea<\/st1:placetype> of Love<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>,\u201d which many listeners probably heard with the Robert Plant cover before they heard Cat Power\u2019s ethereal version. Adding to the nostalgia, the Juno<\/i> soundtrack resurrects Sonic Youth\u2019s cover of \u201cSuperstar\u201d from the \u201890s tribute album If I Were a Carpenter<\/i>. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Most great soundtracks by various artists have an anchor. Think Simon & Garfunkel with The Graduate<\/i> or Aimee Mann for Magnolia<\/i>. For Juno, it\u2019s The Moldy Peaches and co-founder Kimya Dawson. Dawson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s songs bring a listener back to certain scenes of Juno<\/i> and reflect the general mood of the movie. Like the humor in Juno<\/i>, the music is both smart and na\u00efvely childlike. However, the lyrics reveal a sharper sophistication. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

In the rapid-fire \u201cLoose Lips,\u201d Dawson lets loose a blinding array of scattered thoughts, like \u201cI\u2019ll drop kick Russell Stover, move into the starting over house\/And know Matt Rouse and jest we are watching me achieve my dream \/and we\u2019ll pray, all damn day, every day\/That the shit our president has got us in will go away.\u201d Dawson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> gets more personal in \u201cAnyone But You,\u201d which opens with the memorable line \u201cYou\u2019re a part time lover and a full time friend\/The monkey on your back is the latest trend.\u201d <\/o:p><\/p>\n

That song is bookended at the end by Michael Cera and Ellen Page\u2019s cover of it. Their cover sums up the movie as well as soundtrack: scrappy, imperfect and executed with a carelessness that may bring some people to mistakenly assume \u201cI could have written that.\u201d Of course, that couldn\u2019t be further from the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":29241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6722],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-40781","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-original-soundtrack","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40781"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}