The song was Gilbert O’Sullivan’s Alone Again (Naturally). When we asked Aimee about the song that changed her life, she took us back to 1972, to the first time she ever listened – really listened – to lyrics in a pop song. The stage show hasn’t happened, but the record is out now. Mann largely played material from her relatively more recent catalog, from 1999’s Magnolia soundtrack through 2008’s Smilers.
Like one would adapt a book for the screen, I had the concept of adapting Aimees songs into a screenplay. Director Paul Thomas Anderson explains, 'I sat down to write an adaptation of Aimee Mann songs. The album has been received positively by critics. This is true of the Magnolia soundtrack, yet the process by which the film and the soundtrack were made is somewhat backwards. Largely composed of works by Aimee Mann, enough such that she receives a title billing on the album, it features tracks by Gabrielle, Supertramp and Jon Brion. The songs on the record started when Aimee was working on a stage version of the book Girl, Interrupted. Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name. She’s also won two Grammy awards, including one for best folk album for her 2018 record Mental Illness.Īimee has recently followed up Mental Illness with a very different record called Queens of the Summer Hotel. She earned an Academy Award nomination for her work scoring Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. However, odds are you know Aimee for her solo career. This time around, we’re joined by Aimee Mann.Īimee is a singer-songwriter whose career dates back to the 80s when she sang in the new wave band Til Tuesday. The Song That Changed My Life is a segment that gives us the chance to talk with some of our favorite artists about the music that made them who they are today.
If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-80.Īimee Mann on Gilbert O’Sullivan’s Alone Again (Naturally) Nothing graphic, but an acknowledgement of it.
“While she was working, I was working,” Anderson wrote.(Photo: Eugene Gologursky / Getty Images for The New Yorker)Ĭontent Warning: This segment contains some talk around the topic of suicide.
AIMEE MANN MAGNOLIA SOUNDTRACK YOUTUBE MOVIE
Sorry if I talked aobut the movie too much but i aimee mann is telling them all exactly what they need to do. I see You is a song from her new album Queens of the Summer Hotel and it is just as great I See You. Over 20 years have passed since first seeing Magnolia which not only was a beautiful movie, but also a testament to the great songwriter Aimee Mann is. Those poeple in the movie Magnolia really were unhappy with themselves and what. Music from our Tube: Aimee Mann I see You. 2, which shared four tracks with Magnolia’s soundtrack recording). This song is featured on the Jerry Mcguire soundtrack from 1996 so it wasnt written specifically for Magnolia, but. The next of her works borrowed by Anderson is the previously unreleased 1994 track “Momentum.” Heard echoing through the walls of Claudia’s apartment of Claudia’s (Melora Walters) apartment, the song serves as the foundation of the noise complaint that draws Officer Jim (John C.Reilly) into her life and begins the intersection of the film’s previously isolated plots.Īnderson cops to his privilege in having access to Mann’s deeper catalogue in the soundtrack liners, praising the benefit of hearing demos and works-in-progress for Mann’s next album (2000’s Bachelor No.
The timing of Mann’s material is crucial to the plot of Magnolia, as it seemingly always signifies a seismic shift. The characters – all of whom will eventually intertwine – are introduced in their own pockets of Anderson’s universe, as Mann repeats “one is the loneliest number.” It’s interesting to note the choice of Mann’s voice borrowing classic material (the recording itself comes from a 1995 Nilsson tribute album and features backing vocals from founding members of Squeeze and The Rutles), but the choice seems fitting. Acclaimed singer-songwriter Aimee Mann will mark Black Friday Record Store Day on November 27 with a limited edition vinyl reissue of her third solo album, Bachelor No. Mann’s cover of Harry Nilsson is stretched over twice its recorded run-time on-screen as Anderson introduces all the primaries whose stories will be woven together over the following three hours.