Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
#0Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 1:59pm
According to Variety...
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117936991?categoryid=15&cs=1&s=h&p=0
#1re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 2:04pmWell, at least some people are still optimistic about the future of the movie musical....
AuditioningWaitress
Broadway Star Joined: 7/13/05
#2re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 2:07pmI really like Beyoncé, but I really don't know how to take this news...I guess I have mixed feelings.
greenegirl87
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/11/05
#3re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 2:08pm...
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#4re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 2:10pm
And I'd heard Krieger was writing some new songs, too. Are they going to use any of the songs from the stage show at this point (besides "And I Am Telling You", of course)?
#5re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 2:10pmWow...looks like they're doing EVERYTHING they can to make sure Beyonce's name is all over this thing...good move.
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#6re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 2:24pmNow is the song going to be just used for the credits or in the actual film
#7re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 2:26pmNooooooooooooooooooooo!
#8re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 2:44pmWhat greenegirl87 said.
I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
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popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#9re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 2:46pmShe's evil. Evil.
#10re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 2:49pmIn all fairness, they should let Miss Hudson write the song since she is playing Effie,...LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#11re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 2:50pmHuh?
#12re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 2:52pmI seriously hope it's one of those "played during the credits songs" that they're only including for Oscar eligibility. Her style of songs are just so drastically different than the music already existing in Dreamgirls.
Wanting life but never knowing how
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#13re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 3:09pmDolly Parton ruined the score of the film version of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" because she was allowed to write her own songs for the film. Her songs were substituted for the originals and that was not a good thing!
futurewinnerbud
Understudy Joined: 2/23/04
#14re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 5:50pm
and look what cam eout of that "debacle"...
maybe one of the most famous songs ever written, "(and I) Will Always Love You".
True the movie sucked, but good does come from bad folks...
#15re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 6:01pmI'm excited for the movie.
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#16re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 6:09pmI won't say a thing for or against until I actually hear the songs. Sure "bootylicious" doesn't exactly fit w/in the film, but maybe she'll change her style?
LightMyCandle
Stand-by Joined: 11/21/04
#17re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 6:31pm
"Oooo boy you lookin' like you like whatchyou see. Won'tchyou come ovah and check up on it I'mma letchyou work up on it..."
Genius. I for one am so excited.
End Sarcasm.
TonyaFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/04
#18re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 6:35pm
oh wow hear we go with the haters.....
might i remind you that Beyonce is one of the only women to recieve the ASCAP Award for Songwriter of the year this organization's members include all the wonderful musical theater songwriters we know and love. including henry kreiger. so please give it a rest. like it or not she's the biggest name attached to this project. if you doubt Ms. Knowles songwriting skills, listen to the following songs:
Say My Name- listen to the lyrics. theyre utterly remarkable the way she puts them together.
Stand Up for Love- With David Foster nuff said
Dangerously In Love- one of the most beautiful songs written in the last decade i think
Speechless- her best damn song
#19re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 6:47pm"I Will Always Love You" wasn't written for the film of WHOREHOUSE. Parton had a hit with it years earlier with Porter Wagner.
#20re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 7:11pmBeyonce is a bigger name than Jamie Foxx or Eddie Murphy??? I don't think so...
#21re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 7:27pmMy confidence in Bill Condon is being tested....
BroomstickBoy
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#22re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 7:53pmSo there goes my faith in the movie. I hate Beyonce's style of songwriting. The majority of her songs consist of the generic R&B formula, "let's sample something from the 70's/80's and brag about my ego to men/women". Why not just make her rewrite the songs in her own way?? I'm sure she'll add God-Knows how many syllables to every damn song the same way Whitney Houston added 50 notes to "I Will Always Love You".
#23re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 8:01pm
Say My Name- listen to the lyrics. theyre utterly remarkable the way she puts them together.
Stand Up for Love- With David Foster nuff said
Dangerously In Love- one of the most beautiful songs written in the last decade i think
Speechless- her best damn song
--- While those are great songs, and I think Beyonce is very talented. Those songs and her other songs are NOT of the Broadway caliber. Has she ever actually written MUSIC? Yes, she writes lyrics. But what about notes and melodies? Most of her songs are usually co-written, and we know what that sometimes means.
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#24re: Beyonce to write new songs for DREAMGIRLS flick
Posted: 1/29/06 at 8:09pmI just hope that if this is true that the songs actually fit into the context of the movie and aren't just songs that are obviously there to showcase her.
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