If you want to complain about the new Ghostbusters movie — and a lot of people do, despite not having seen it — don’t bother with any of the predictably dumb reasons, or something Melissa McCarthy has already covered. Complain about the soundtrack. The 1984 Ghostbusters album had, of course, Ray Parker, Jr.’s iconic theme, and other songs that weren’t about busting and/or ghosts by The Thompson Twins, Air Supply, and Laura Branigan. The new Ghostbusters soundtrack contains tracks from Fall Out Boy and Missy Elliott, 5 Seconds of Summer, Pentatonix, and Walk the Moon.
There’s not a single Ray Parker, Jr. cameo to be found. What an outrage.
I guess we’ll have to do with Missy and Fall Out Boy’s new version, and the cover performed by Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon for ELLE magazine. Would I listen to an entire album of Kate McKinnon singing about ghosts in different accents? Yes, yes I would.
Speaking of McKinnon, here’s what she told ELLE about impersonating Justin Bieber (or is Justin Bieber impersonating her…?) on SNL:
“I came to a reckoning that [pretending to be other people] is in fact such a real, huge chunk of the way I communicate. I thought it was something I was putting on to disguise something else, but it’s not.” So, what she’s saying is that in real life McKinnon is, in fact, Justin Bieber?, Goodman writes. “That is what I am telling you, yes.” (Via)
At least Bieber’s not on the soundtrack?
(Via ELLE)
