Whats your favourite new song from Hairspray the movie????

[shardasmal]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 4:54am

Hi friends, im wondering which of the new songs for the movie do you prefer... for me, the song that smells OSCAR Nomination is "COME SO FAR (GOT SO FAR TO GO)"

what do you think about?

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[bare_nakedlady]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:14am

I have to say my favorite new song is the reprise of "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful." To me it's the one that worked the best in the film. If I have to pick an actual full song, I'd pick "New Girl in Town."

[Funny Face]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 11:06am

"New Girl in Town" is my hands-down favorite, but I truly enjoyed all the new songs.

Is that one eligible for an Oscar nom since it wasn't technically written for the movie?

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 11:15am

I believe New Girl In Town is not eligible since it was not written specifically for the movie. I really like Come So Far.

Regarding the Oscars, I don't know if it's in their best interest to get multiple noms, or to push hard for one particular song.

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 11:48am

Hands down Come So Far.

[SNLMedia]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:00pm

My favorite has to be "Come So Far", but I find myself listening to all of the new songs on the soundtrack repeatedly.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:07pm

I don't think "New Girl in Town" will be eligible, just like the stunning "Maybe This Time" wasn't eligible for CABARET. It was previously written, although I think the latter was a trunk song.

Don't forget about "Ladie's Choice"! Although the Oscars may stay away from anything Efron...

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:10pm

I believe Maybe This Time was written for Liza to perform before the film of Cabaret, thus it was not eligible.

I'm fond of Ladie's Choice.

Updated On: 8/1/07 at 12:10 PM

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:13pm

Come so far

[Funny Face]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 1:54pm

Kind of OT, but is it true that the ommited "Mama I'm A Big Girl Now" because the screenwriter found it unfilmable?
I find that hard to believe. There are multiple ways they could've shot that scene. I have a sneaking suspiscion it's because Bynes and Snow weren't vocally efficient enough for it.

[fishergirl819]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 3:04pm

I believe it had something to do with the fact that the song moralizes Amber, and puts her on the same playing field as Tracy and Penny. They wanted her and Velma to be more movie villains...not moral qualities or whatnot.

[jboy1]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 5:39pm

I loved "Come So Far" and "Ladies' Choice" but my favorite was the Dynamites' version of "New Girl in Town."

I loved the Dynamites...period.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 5:45pm

Wizard- on the CABARET DVD little documentary Kander or Ebb refers to it as a trunk song, making it uneligible. They had the melody already written. Fosse told them exactly what he wanted Sally to say at that moment. They say Fosse practically wrote some of the lyrics. They pulled out this melody from their "trunk" and added the lyrics, and there we have "Maybe This Time".

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 12:29pm

My favorite song is "LADIES' CHOICE", but my mom is a big fan of "COME SO FAR." I'm a sucker for that one too.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 12:32pm

I don't think any of the new songs are as good as the OBC songs, but I've come to like the Dynamites part of "The New Girl in Town." "Come So Far" is fun too, if a bit sappy sounding.

[Funny Face]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:09pm

^^ Yeah, I agree. I think Come So Far is kinda cheesy as well. I love the songs in Hairspray because they're so tongue-in-cheek, and that one is a little too earnest and sappy. It's a nice sounding song, though.

[lv.broadwaay]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 10:31pm

hands down: LADIES CHOICE : )

haha but yeah new girl in town and come so far are also apart of my top favorites from the soundtrack

[Clarinetbiter135]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 11:08pm

My favorite to watch was "Without Love" as Link sang to the picture. It was so cheesy, it was hilarious.

[galindagirl2]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 11:18pm

Well, I think I'm gonna have to go with Ladies' Choice...I never ever in my wildest dreams thought I'd go for ANYTHING Efron, but...

[little_sally]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 11:31pm

I actually really liked "Ladies Choice".

[LoringsGuy]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 11:43pm

Come So Far.

And to answer the question previously asked: yes, "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now" was jettisoned for two reasons. One is that they felt the sequence on film would be too reminiscent of "The Telephone Hour" from Birdie. The other was that Shankman thought that by showing Tracy and Amber essentially "relating" to each other, however indirectly, would humanize Amber too much and make her less unlikeable.

[Funny Face]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 11:48pm

That makes sense, seeing as they even went so far as to cut Amber and Velma's lines from "You Can't Stop the Beat", which would probably have been kind of cheesy anyway.

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 12:03am

"New Girl in Town," no doubt. They're all great, though.