![]() 'Crazy Youngsters' is written and performed by Esther Dean who also co-stars in the film. The anthem winds it's way through the entire film. Jessie J takes on 'Flashlight,' written by Sam Smith, Sia and others. ![]() Once again creating exclusive a cappella mash-ups and medleys from the Universal Pictures movie Pitch Perfect 2, the soundtrack also features two original songs written for the film. “So it was a bit of a coup to have them say yes, not just to licensing ‘Uprising’ but mashing it up with another song.” Muse finally softened after director Elizabeth Banks wrote a personal plea to singer Matt Bellamy.The Barden Bellas are back and bigger than ever! Set for world domination this time around, Pitch Perfect 2, the highly-anticipated sequel to the smash hit and platinum-selling soundtrack, Pitch Perfect. “Empirically, you just don’t see Muse songs licensed all over the place,” says Knobloch. The 2012 soundtrack to Pitch Perfect was a rare gold-cup winner in the sales sweepstakes, thanks in part to the viral success of Anna Kendrick‘s Cups, the flukiest of fluke hits. Their toughest get? Muse’s “Uprising,” as performed by the villainous German singing troupe Das Sound Machine, with bad accents and nearly fascistic choreography. (The film did successfully procure a Perry song for another scene - for a “low six-figure sum,” says an insider - but, like about 40 other licensed tunes, it got cut.) ![]() If you’re expecting Katy Perry as a third choice, the scene stops short of that. For instance, in one scene, a cappella teams compete with spontaneous arrangements of hits in several different categories, one being “I Dated John Mayer.” One team does a Vanessa Carlton tune, while another busts out some Swift, to big laughs. Original Soundtrack - Begin Again: Music from and Inspired by the Original Motion Picture (CD) 24.99 Various Artists - Disney Ultimate Hits 1-2 (Target Exclusive, Vinyl) 17.99 Lin-Manuel Miranda - Encanto - (Target Exclusive Vinyl) 62.99 Original Broadway Cast of Hami - Hamilton (OCR) (EXPLICIT LYRICS) (Vinyl) 32. They could pay more for some songs than others, but the “riff-off” mashup sequences dictated that every song used in a medley pay the same amount. Watch Jessie J’s Uplifting ‘Flashlight’ Video from ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart until October 2013, more than a year after the film’s release. theaters (according to Box Office Mojo) before proving its mettle post-theatrically the soundtrack debuted with a mere 9,000 units on its way to selling 1.3 million albums, according to Nielsen Music. ![]() Pitch Perfect grossed a respectable $65 million in U.S. “Neither the first movie nor the soundtrack album opened with spectacular numbers,” says Resnikoff. The reasoning: A huge chunk of the film’s biggest laughs come from hearing the first bar or two of a musical cue, whether it’s - spoilers ahead! - the Green Bay Packers doing “Bootylicious” or Rebel Wilson’s Fat Amy wooing her ex-boyfriend with a comically melodramatic “We Belong to the Night.” Fans looking for a song lineup for Pitch Perfect 2 on services like iTunes or Amazon have only seen blank spaces, as UMe aims to keep the 18-track lineup under wraps until its actual street date, a level of secrecy not even Taylor Swift strives for. While the marketing behind the film has been aggressive, the pregame push for the soundtrack has been virtually nonexistent.
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