The melodies serve to lift her characters out of their self-induced miseries. Mann’s focusing in on how victims of love may revel masochistically in their own despair. The lyrics here deal mainly with the sturdy pop music themes of heartbreak, regret and loss. Magnolia, the movie, was released by one of Time Warner’s corporate children, New Line Cinema. Mann has nine songs on the marketplace on the Warner Brothers label. The director of Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson, approached her about doing the songs for his latest movie. Magnolia is something of a reprieve for Ms. But my ears cannot detect why songs like “Save Me,” “Wise Up” or “Build That Wall” from Magnolia would not be hits in a market that rewards Sarah McLachlan. The much anticipated follow-up to Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, Magnolia features a specially orchestrated soundtrack, largely written and performed by Aimee Mann ('Til Tuesday member and sadly overlooked solo artist). It seems that their brand of pop music-its ancestors range from Carole King to Burt Bacharach to the Raspberries to Gilbert O’Sullivan to Harry Nilsson to John Lennon to Squeeze and Elvis Costello-doesn’t sell anymore. All they want to do is make lovely, melancholy ballads and peppy, intelligent rock songs, but the market isn’t buying.
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Brion find themselves in the strange position of being pop music rebels. Brion, who is also Fiona Apple’s producer, has had record company troubles of his own his album, Meaningless, a mix of insanely catchy pop-rock songs and John Lennon-ish balladry, was shelved by Atlantic last year. Along with her producer Jon Brion, she’s one of the regulars who play a club called Largo. Mann, originally from Boston, is now part of a mini-scene in Los Angeles. Mann has pared down her lyrics, which, on Whatever and I’m With Stupid, were often more digressive and obscure. The nine Aimee Mann songs here are beautiful and perfectly crafted. Mann might make music that was willfully odd or “artistic.” But no.
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You might think that, with all the record-company woes, Ms. Mann is working on a deal with a distributor.īack to the Magnolia songs. 2 will be in record stores in a month or two Ms. one possibly being longtime producer Paul Bryans love for Nick Drake. Mann is playing nightly on a bill with her husband, Michael Penn, through Feb. 2 and the Magnolia soundtrack, the gorgeous melodies and deliberate gait of this. You can buy the unreleased album at her sold-out run at Joe’s Pub, where Ms. Rather than give in, she bought the masters back from the company as they were. 2, was scheduled for release from Interscope Records, but executives at the company “didn’t hear a single,” as they say in the business, and asked Ms.