Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Gennaro Castaldo Watch: The quotes they whistle as they leave the cinema

Abba have had their first ever US top ten album - although, actually, they haven't, as it's the Mamma Mia soundtrack and thus, more accurately, Meryl Streep's first top ten album.

Still, Gennaro Castaldo has something to say about it:
"The music featured in a film is increasingly a key component of its success, so it's no surprise that more and more people are buying soundtrack albums for the great songs they often feature."

Searing insight. The music featured in a film is a key component of its success. Erm, especially with Mamma Mia being a musical. That might well make the music incredibly important.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous22/7/08 1:23 pm

    It's like something I'd imagine a machine would write.

    X features Y and is Z therefore Z for X must be due to Y.

    Now if it was explained like this by the general public then I would understand why it is necessary for a Castaldo translation but otherwise I'm at a loss.


    Can I just ask a question to everyone? Are the writers who quote those HMV press releases (which Simon here thankfully ridicules) just really bad writers or is just that they don't have the confidence to assert blatant facts without a source?

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