The beginning of the song "You Could Make a Killing" and the bit that appears after the track "It's Not Safe", both from I'm with Stupid, also appear briefly in the beginning of the film, but the tracks do not appear on this album. ( Bachelor also includes "Red Vines", a song Mann wrote about director Anderson.) "Nothing Is Good Enough", here an instrumental, appears in lyrical form on that album. 2, though the track "Save Me" replaces "Driving Sideways" on EU editions.
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The tracks "Deathly", "Driving Sideways", and "You Do" show up on Aimee Mann's following album, Bachelor No. "Save Me" would garner Mann an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song, losing to Phil Collins's song " You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan. Many of the songs feature prominently within the film, with "Wise Up" even being sung by the cast at one point, but only two of the songs were written expressly for the film, those being "You Do" and " Save Me". And it wound up existing in a much larger sequence than we initially anticipated because it fit so well.Paul Thomas Anderson stated that Magnolia was inspired by Mann's music.
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So it has a solemnity to it but it also has a sense of crazy. “We tried to capture all those different elements with the song. “There’s real profundity and a large sense of astonishment at how absurd today’s world can sometimes get,” Britell says. Britell even points out that McKay had just one note when he heard an early version of the song: “Can you just turn up the crazy by an extra 10%?”
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While there’s a tenderness and triumph to “Second Nature” that makes it perfect end credits fodder, its edges are appropriately sharp and wild for the kind of movie it helps close. I also love the line, ‘When’s that Rapture… will there be merch?’” “And that’s the double meaning of the song talking about what’s happening to nature and human nature’s role in that. “It’s a beautiful thought but there’s also a warning there,” Britell adds. “Like next time, we’ll have a new chance, but the irony is we won’t have a second chance when it comes to climate change.” “I love the words, ‘We will see you next time… they’ll be water in the rain,’” Vernon says. “Second Nature” came quickly, with Britell and Vernon throwing out ideas immediately after watching a cut of Don’t Look Up: “I was energized and inspired beyond words,” Vernon says, “kinda like a bull in the pen before the rodeo.” In the studio, it started with a chord progress Britell had been working on, which Vernon matched on acoustic guitar an off-hand comment Britell made about something being “second nature” provided kindling for Vernon’s lyrics. It was meant to be that this is how we would collide.”īritell adds, “There’s something truly special about finding a musical collaborator where you feel really inspired and that’s what this particular experience was for me.
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“Then he went on to do If Beale Street Could Talk, 12 Years a Slave - all this incredible, incredible shit - and then Succession! But we never had a chance to create anything together. “When Nicholas and I first met, he was already doing amazing things,” Vernon says.
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While Britell and Vernon have known each other for a decade, “Second Nature” - a lush, heartening ballad filled with rich harmonies and plenty of cinematic grandeur - marks the first time they’ve worked together. Meanwhile, the movie - in which Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and Rob Morgan play a trio of scientists trying to warn the world about a planet-destroying comet - arrives in select theaters today, and hits Netflix Dec.