Mean Girls

オリジナルはLindsay Lohanが主演し2004年に大ヒットした映画『Mean Girls』リメイク版のサウンドトラック。Renee Rappがラッパー、Megan Thee Stallionとコラボした「Not My Fault」ではオリジナル版映画の名セリフ「私に恋しているんだか知らないけど、それは私のせいじゃない」(Not My Fault)のセリフがサンプリングされている。

A film adaptation of a stage-musical adaptation of a film (Tina Feys landmark 2004 teen comedy), 2024s Mean Girls distills the 2018 Broadway musical into a movie with a soundtrack that, at 34 minutes, has half the runtime of the cast album. (A few short musical numbers that do appear in the film, such as reprises, "Kevin Gs Rap," and the Christmas routine, were omitted from the soundtrack.) On what remains, the main soloists include seductive powerhouse vocalist Renee Rapp as leader of the Plastics (the mean girls), demure-voiced Angourie Rice as formerly home-schooled new girl Cady, and Auli’I Cravalho, aka Disneys original Moana, as combat boots-sporting Plastics nemesis Janis. All three leads are strong and distinct, and theyre joined here by impressive one-off soloists Bebe Wood as Gretchen (self-conscious highlight "Whats Wrong with Me?") and Avantika as Karen (the not-self-conscious "Sexy"), as well as by supporting cast members like Jaquel Spivey as Damian Hubbard and Tim Meadows, who reprises the role of Mr. Duvall from the original film. Notably, the movies two new songs concentrate wholly on self-love, if from different angles (Rices "What Ifs" and closing pop song "Not My Fault" featuring Rapp and Megan Thee Stallion). Both the 2018 cast album and the 2024 soundtrack landed in the Billboard 200. ~ Marcy Donelson

かつてリンジー・ローハンが主演したコメディ映画「ミーン・ガールズ」(2004年)をベースにして作られ、ブロードウェイでも評価されたミュージカル版「MEAN GIRLS」(2017年～)が、人気の高まりを受けて改めて映画化。このサントラはキャストによるもので、本編に出演するレネー・ラップが大活躍。彼女とミーガン・ザ・スタリオンによる"Not My Fault"も聴きものだ。
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