Yet Another Review I Didn’t Finish Reading
Various artists, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon Soundtrack” (Chop Shop/Atlantic) [3 out of 4 STARS]
“The world is a vampire,” Billy Corgan sang back in the mid-’90s, but the Great Pumpkin was ahead of his time: These days, it’s impossible to sit in front of a television or movie screen without catching some glimpse of the undead–now all unnaturally beautiful teens or twentysomethings–set to appropriately moody post-alternative dinner music. No one has made these pairings more skillfully, however, than that master musical sommelier, Chicago native Alexandra Patsavas, the in-demand music supervisor who scores “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Gossip Girl,” and now the second installment of “The Twilight Saga,” the new film “New Moon.”…
I have precious little knowledge of the Twilight series, and yet I’m sick of hearing about it. Vampires are the new zombies, who were once the new pirates, who were once the new monkeys (as opposed to the New Monkees, but that’s a different story).
Come on, geeks. Get out of the fantasy worlds. As Cole Porter wrote, “Use your mentality. Step up to reality.”
