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James Adams has listened to this year's Oscar-nominated songs and says they just don't write them like they used to. There's not a Moon River in the bunch ...Read the full article
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Jared Thibeau from Toronto, Canada writes: Every decade of Oscar winning songs has featured unmemorable or mediocre material, so this article is an immense generalization. Most of the recent victories aren't trash; they just aren't quite up-to-snuff. But I don't reasonably know how you can lump the last few years together when in 2000 Bob Dylan's "Things Have Changed" won. THAT is a great song. I'm humming it in my head right now.
- Posted 17/02/07 at 1:08 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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Andrew Dyck from Canada writes: Blah, blah, blah. Whoever said that the anything should last forever? Is there some rule I missed that stated songs from movies should be memorable 100 or 40 or even 20 years from now. These are the songs for right here right now--the past is dead and gone and I gotta say, Kern and the boys don't get much play right now as it is--for all there wonderfulness--their time has passed.
- Posted 17/02/07 at 1:54 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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