Love Heals

What a fantastic song. I love it.

The rest of the Rent soundtrack is pretty good too. Hurrah!

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I absolutely LOVE the new song - LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!! I think the soundtracks are very different - it being ten years for most of the cast and all. Some things I love, some I miss - but overall - a very good soundtrack and interpretation of the music!!

FOrgive this non-Rentheads question but:

Is the Soundtrack the tracks we will hear in the movie, or are they 2 seperate recordings?

I LOVE this song.. First heard it at the TODAY 4 U benefit back in 97'. Gwen Stewart if I remember correctly sang a lot of it with Idina and Taye. =*D the good old days. I bet you anything that this song is the ending credits song.

Thanks Em. I'm eager to hear the Soundtrack, but I'll wait until after I see the movie, so I can go into it fresh.

completely inlove with it.<3... i've yet to have the soundtrack, every store near me doesnt carry it yet, which you'd think they would since i live on long island.. im going in the city tomorrow so maybe i'll find it there.

I don't think it was originally written for anything specifically. It's a beautiful song that Jonathan wrote. I love the cast's version, but I like Sherie Rene Scott's version a lot more. I guess because it's one of the only versions I've heard, so my mindset is that it should sound like that. And Sherie sounds gorgeous.

I heard that it was originally written by Jonathan and friends for Ali, a friend who died of AIDS (we hear her name in Life Support on the Cast Album for a reason). I think Jonathan did the music, and each of the friends contributed some lyrics. That's what I *heard*. I don't know if it's true.

At first, I really didn't like it. AT all. For some reason, though, this week I've had the insane urge to listen to it and have grown to really like it a lot. It is a beautiful song (gotta say, some of the metaphors seem a little... random, but whatever), and the cast does an AMAZING job with it. They all sound fantastic.

In all honesty, though, Rent itself is pretty sentimental (not that I don't adore it! But it is!), and I would've really rather them had a credits song with more attitude to balance that out. (Personally, I was rooting really hard for Boho Days and I still think that would've been great, but I think this was a good second-place decision.)

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Ah, I see. Thanks for the correction. I don't have the soundtrack yet, so I wouldn't have been able to see it. :)

If you went to high school in NJ, you probably watched "The Alison Gertz Story" every year in health class starring Miss Molly Ringwald. I love the film. She contracted it from a Bartender... really sad. =o( I didn't know she died yet though.

The lyrics can be a little cheesy and trite, but I like it. Mostly because it's pretty much the Tracie and Idina show.

This may be a silly question, but is there any mention of Jonathan at all in the Allison Gertz movie? I'm not sure exactly how important their relationship was, but I was just wondering.

I ADORE this song, and It kills me to think of all the other songs like it than Jonathan never got to write.

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Was this Allison Gertz movie some kind of TV thing that was very, very eighties? I think I might have seen it...