The wedding date soundtrack ? whether it is successful or not?

Added: 12/12/2005

Some critics say that good score albums are already the past. This is not to say that score releases, accompanying movies, are bad, but they only perform their job and do not reach something beyond what the film accompaniment requires. In fact, score albums should put all the content of a movie to music and listeners are to be excited by the score, evoking movie images, feelings and emotions in their minds. Some score albums fail to do it, the others do not...

The Wedding Date soundtrack is a score album, accompanying the Wedding Date movie and is composed by Blake Nelly, a composer comparatively new to the professional music world. The Wedding Date soundtrack is Nelly's first full album release, though he has been working for the past few years on projects, such as Frequency and a television show "Everwood". He is not a widely known composer, though has a huge potential of a real artist, as many experts consider. The Wedding Date soundtrack features the following cues:

1. Invitation to a Wedding
2. Hello 3-B / Good Morning
3. What You're Wearing
4. On Board
5. Close Your Eyes
6. On The Left, Right?
7. Bloody Mary / Interested
8. Discovery
9. To The Wedding
10. It's Complicated
11. Airport Transaction
12. Big Bed In The Country
13. Betrayal
14. The Morning After
15. Going To Get Him
16. I'm Sorry / Best Man
17. Willy Wide Wonder (That Bachelor Party Song)

If you have not watched the movie, let us shortly review it for you. Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney star in the Wedding Date movie. In the film, Messing's character, Kat, has got an invitation to her sister's wedding. She has to hire a male escort, Nick Mercer, played by Dermot Mulroney, in order to avoid having to answer questions about why she is still single - and, more important, to make her ex-boyfriend jealous. This idea is developed through comedian actions of the main characters, which make the movie not a waste of time to watch.

Thus, the Wedding Date is a typical romantic comedy and the Wedding Date soundtrack underlines it from the opening bars of the first cue "Invitation to a wedding". The melody is quite absorbing, light and transparent, moving through various music textures and arousing a bouquet, full of emotions and feelings. There is even a piece of melody in "Invitation to a wedding" that hints at the troubles that will keep the lovers apart.

Apart from this, the album features more interesting moments, like some in the cue "It's complicated". It presents an effective beginning with simple keyboard chords and underscoring. The last cue "Willy Wide Wonder" is a jazzy, hip cue, completed with a Hammond organ and a jazz flute. It is a melody out of the 70s, a little incongruous with the rest of the soundtrack, though much appealing and touching.

The other melodies also arouse vivid and live images, recreate personages and keep a listener feel the movie. Many listeners actually like this soundtrack and find Mr. Nelly a really talented composer, surprising a listener in many music aspects. Many critics expect him to astonish and excite them even more with his next releases and better results and they are watching with interest what he does next.

However, some experts consider that Nelly has not managed to reveal his potential fully through the Wedding Date soundtrack release. In fact, the Wedding Date movie has also given rise to many hot debates and diverse opinions.

It is worth adding the Wedding Date soundtrack and the movie to your wedding collection and it is up to you whether you find both of them successful or not.

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