The replacement songs also target the PG-audience with their lighter tone. In fact, the song “Cooties,” written for Snow’s character Amber, is performed by someone else on the soundtrack and doesn’t appear in the feature film. They aren’t nearly as fun as the original Broadway songs. Oh, and did I mention Queen Latifah is at the top of her game as Motormouth Maybelle?įans of the Broadway musical (which I never saw) may be disappointed by the new songs “Ladies’ Choice” with Zac Efron and “The New Girl in Town” with Brittany Snow. Throw in Michelle Pfieffer’s devilish number “Miss Baltimore Crabs,” where she sings about her days as the femme fatale of the teen dance scene, and you have what may be the best movie musical soundtrack since Chicago. Turnblad, respectively) singing “Timeless” is enough to get me in the theater. The shear joy aroused by Christopher Walken and John Travlota (Mr. Yet, against the odds, these songs, the quirky lyrics and the quirkier performances are defiantly great. The incompatibility of John Waters’s irreverence and Broadway’s shine are ever apparent. The opening song “Good Morning Baltimore” is a showtune through and through, with the big (blonde?) and beautiful voice of Nikki Blonsky leaving no room for argument. Use your imagination.īut the soundtrack to Hairspray, an Adam Shankman-directed adaptation of the Broadway musical, itself adapted from the 1988 film, is definitely a musical soundtrack. I mean there’s a song called “Miss Baltimore Crabs”. Posted by Dan Stasiewski on in Random | 0 commentsįor every fan of the John Waters’s original film Hairspray, I have one recommendation: buy the soundtrack to the 2007 movie musical version and listen.
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