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Album Reviews
Album Review: Various Artists – Sex And The City 2 OST (Sony)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 21 June 2010
For those of you who have had the pleasure of seeing the absolute shitfest that is ‘Sex And The City 2’, you may or may not be surprised to hear that the soundtrack is just as awful and tedious as the film itself. Did I have high hopes for it? Not exactly, but as a huge fan of the TV series I was willing to give it – and its songs – one last chance. I feel, for a lack of a better word, cheated.
Contemporary bland songstresses Dido, Alicia Keys and Leona Lewis contribute to the mix, snuggled a little uncomfortably between the legendary Ms Cyndi Lauper and, most sinfully, Liza Minnelli attempting to cover Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies’ (taken from a scene that will forever and ever be scarred onto my mind – fuck you very much, Carrie Bradshaw).
Not knowing whether to laugh or cry at the fact that the compilers of the soundtrack decided to include Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte’s Abu Dhabi karaoke track (sung by themselves) as well as three – yes, three – songs by the ‘Sex And The City Men’s Choir’ (as featured on Anthony and Stanford’s wedding, a match I hereby declare as one made in hell) – I’m forever left stunned and appalled by how a once smart and classy series has stooped so low, into shiny, monotonous, consumer-led distaste. TW
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