That hybrid comes across most clearly on retro-modern songs that fuse old and new like will.i.am’s “Bang Bang” and Fergie, Q Tip and GoonRock’s “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got),” both songs that fuel one of the movie’s two gala party sequences. At a very early stage, Jay-Z expressed his enthusiasm to come aboard, and he’s been a very solid collaborator and partner on everything in the film, not just the music but across the board.”Ĭertainly The Great Gatsby reflects that hothouse sensibility, with Jay-Z’s “100$ Bill” and “No Church in the Wild” establishing the stylized past we’re glimpsing through modern beats. Says Monsted: “We had to figure out how to address jazz in the film with the score … Are we going to have a classical underscore? Is it all going to be hip-hop or pop? All those questions swirled around, and then, out of the mist, the answer started to appear. The meeting between Luhrmann and Jay-Z set the wheels in motion for what would become that hybrid. For Fitzgerald, it was ‘the racy, adventurous feel of that music’ in that time.” We regard it as a serious art form unto itself. We revere that music now because 80 years have passed. Scott Fitzgerald evoked the popular music of his period, he was criticized because jazz was ephemeral, of the moment. “Baz and I call it the ‘sliding doors’ between music that is very true to the period of the movie’s setting in 1922 and the music of today. “We wanted a blend, a weave,” explains Monsted. He identified with the aspirations of the movie’s title character, who mirrored the hip-hop fascination with money, power, violence and sex. Immediately the song was commandeered for the film, as was Jay-Z himself, who agreed to contribute music - though his participation eventually earned him executive producer credit for the soundtrack. The idea to fuse traditional jazz with modern-day hip-hop, sometimes in the middle of a song, came from Luhrmann after Leonardo DiCaprio introduced him to Jay-Z, who was recording “No Church in the Wild” at the Mercer Hotel for his Watch the Throne album with Kanye West. Monsted and Luhrmann’s latest collaboration, the much buzzed about Gatsby soundtrack, is perhaps their most ambitious yet.
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