Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Music from the Netflix Film)

Netflix独占配信のアメリカ発コメディ映画 『ユーロビジョン歌合戦～ファイア・サーガ物語～』 オリジナル・サウンドトラック

Netflixにて6月26日より独占配信のアメリカ発コメディ映画『ユーロビジョン歌合戦～ファイア・サーガ物語～』のオリジナル・サウンドトラック。世界最大級の歌合戦=ユーロヴィジョン・ソング・コンテストに出場するチャンスを手にしたアイスランドのデュオ。だが有力なライバルや邪魔者、舞台での思わぬ出来事が、夢をかなえたい2人の行く手を阻む。主演は、ウィル・ファレル、レイチェル・マクアダムス。アルバムには、主演の2人による楽曲を中心とした劇中歌を収録。

The plot for Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga follows a novice Icelandic band that fumbles their way into an international song contest, experiencing ridiculous misadventures along the way. This soundtrack collects all the ABBA-inspired and Europop satire songs, offering up over-the-top pop from fictional artists portrayed by Will Ferrell, Demi Lovato, and others. The film is a comedy, and these songs are on-point parodies of overly dramatic and fantastical Eurobeat (Volcano Man, Double Trouble), sad and lonely confessional pop-star balladry (In the Mirror is C-grade Adele), and other silly folk songs or references to the film. The satire is a little too on-the-nose in most cases, as many of these surprisingly catchy songs sound like genuine bids for pop appeal with the kind of glossy production most Top 40 radio hits are made of. The laughs are subtle for the most part, but the soundtrack illustrates the amount of effort and detail that went into the songwriting aspect of a film based around a very specific music culture. ~ Fred Thomas