music video
57 tracksA short film made to accompany a song. Since MTV it has shaped how songs are remembered, and on YouTube it is often the main way a song is heard.
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soundtrack
14 tracks.
What it is
Music written for or placed in a film, series or game. A placement can give a song a second life and an audience far beyond its genre.
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Nu, Jo.Ke
Who Loves the Sun
Nine sun-warmed minutes of organic deep house from the Bar 25 world, where Jo.Ke's gentle, sing-along vocal drifts over a loping groove made for golden-hour dancing.
Michelle Gurevich
Lovers Are Strangers
Michelle Gurevich croons a deadpan, candlelit elegy for love gone cold, with lo-fi synths and a slow-dance sway that make heartbreak feel strangely elegant.
James Newton Howard, Jennifer Lawrence
The Hanging Tree
Jennifer Lawrence's bare, unpolished voice sings an eerie murder ballad from Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay, set to a melody by the Lumineers, that swells into a rebel anthem as James Newton Howard's orchestra gathers behind her.
James Newton Howard, Jennifer Lawrence
The Hanging Tree (Rebel Remix)
Jennifer Lawrence's eerie Mockingjay folk song recast as an uptempo, drum-heavy rebel anthem, the unaccompanied verse growing into a pounding march with strings and a dance pulse.
Imany, Filatov & Karas
Don't Be So Shy (Filatov & Karas Remix)
Imany's smoky contralto meets a sleek, pulsing house remix from Filatov & Karas, turning a slow seduction from a film soundtrack into a continental dancefloor hit.
Gin Wigmore
New Rush
Gin Wigmore's 2015 comeback single, co-written with Charlie Andrew, hits like a jolt of adrenaline: pounding drums and a chant-along chorus pushing her husky voice towards a fresh start after a stifling relationship.
Gin Wigmore
Kill Of The Night
Gin Wigmore's smoky rasp prowls over stomping drums and a swaggering, bluesy strut, a midnight hunt sung by someone who fully intends to win.
Gin Wigmore
Black Sheep
Stomping drums, chanted backing vocals and a shout-along hook frame Gin Wigmore's gravel-edged voice in a proud anthem for everyone who never fit the flock.
Blankets
The Hanging Tree
Blankets carries the Mockingjay murder ballad out of the woods and onto the dancefloor: a 2015 French electronic cover that keeps the song's hummable, unsettling melody and sets it to a pulsing beat.
Nancy Sinatra
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
Nancy Sinatra's 1966 version of Sonny Bono's song, built on Billy Strange's haunting tremolo guitar, is a hushed ballad of childhood love and betrayal that Quentin Tarantino revived over the opening credits of Kill Bill.
Michelle Gurevich
Party Girl
'Party Girl' is the home-recorded title song of Michelle Gurevich's 2007 debut, made under the name Chinawoman: a slow, deadpan contralto ballad about nightlife that became her best-known song and gave its title to a Cannes-winning film.
Fernanda Porto
Sambassim
Fernanda Porto's own Sambassim: the São Paulo composer's song that fused samba and bossa nova melody with electronic beats and helped name a style, drum 'n' bossa.
Felix Da Housecat
Silver Screen (Shower Scene)
Felix Da Housecat's 2001 electroclash single: a melody sampled from The Flirts' 'Passion', Miss Kittin's cool, spoken-sung vocal and a lyric of starlets and cameras, the record that opened Kittenz and Thee Glitz.