- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: May 7, 2013
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May 8, 2013Buying into Luhrmann's vision is always the issue, but here, the music is crafted enough, inspired enough, and deep enough that it's worth diving into without reservations.
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May 15, 2013The Great Gatsby Soundtrack is a fine example of what a film’s musical-mate can and should be; it mirrors many aesthetic elements of the film, augments the general storyline and adds depth and personality to the characters and dialogue on the screen.
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May 9, 2013Put simply, The Great Gatsby soundtrack resonates like the dinky Grammy sampler album they give to us plebeians who aren’t important enough to attend the ceremony anyway.
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May 8, 2013The resulting collection is something more middling, neither offensive nor revolutionary, with memorable moments and forgettable ones.
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May 17, 2013Most of the cars in The Great Gatsby crash and so does Luhrman's soundtrack.
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May 9, 2013Gatsby manages to avoid the major mistake that many soundtracks have, which is not keeping a uniform style throughout the album. At the same time, The Great Gatsby Soundtrack also offers variation, though it comes at a small price. Some of the artists that get a share of the spotlight don’t live up to the standout performances of the album.
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May 8, 2013Not everything works. Lana Del Rey's "Young and Beautiful" is meant to be one of the album's centerpieces; instead, it's inert, a drag. But the LP conjures a consistent mood of noirish, doomed romance.
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May 8, 2013Despite few-and-far-between curveballs from the xx (the spare "Together") and Nero ("Into the Past," which clearly aches to be included on the next Nicolas Winding Refn movie), The Great Gatsby speaks on Duke and Ella's behalf when it says, "It don't mean a thing." Period.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 27 out of 34
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Mixed: 3 out of 34
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Negative: 4 out of 34
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