1 |
Honey,
Honey |
2 |
Money, Money, Money |
3 |
Mamma Mia |
4 |
Dancing
Queen |
5 |
Our
Last Summer |
6 |
Lay All Your Love On Me |
| 7 |
Super Trouper |
8 |
Gimme!
Gimme! Gimme! |
9 |
The Name of the Game |
10 |
Voulez-Vous
|
11 |
SOS
|
12 |
Does
Your Mother Know |
13 |
Slipping
Through My Fingers |
14 |
The
Winner Takes It All |
15 |
When
All Is Said And Done |
16 |
Take
a Chance on Me |
17 |
I
Have a Dream |
SOUNDTRACK REVIEW:
Oh, Meryl Streep. You are indeed the greatest actress alive.
You can do serious movie roles like The Hours’ Clarissa
Vaughan and break our hearts. You can do campy comedic roles
like The Devil Wears Prada’s Miranda Priestly and receive
an Oscar nomination. Then you can sing your heart out as Donna
in the feature film adaptation of the adored musical that
has been seen by more than 30 million people around the world.
In this
movie soundtrack featuring the beloved tunes of popular Swedish
pop group ABBA (we have no idea how to reverse the first “B”
so that it is identical to the official band logo), we get
69 jolly minutes of familiar tunes that will have you singing
along. Not a bad remedy for a gloomy day at work, we’d
say.
Academy
Award winner Streep leads an all star cast in this album to
cast away those depressing feelings. Join Donna and her fun
loving girlfriends Rosie (acclaimed English actress Julie
Walters) and Tanya (Golden Globe nominee Christine Baranski)
as they belt out how “Money, Money, Money” is
“always sunny in a rich man’s world”. In
“Dancing Queen”, the lovely trio invites us to
take a trip down memory lane and “feel the beat from
the tambourine”. What fun!
In more
tender moments like “Our Last Summer”, Bill (Stellan
“Bootstrap Bill” Skarsgard), Sam (Pierce “James
Bond” Brosnan) and Harry (Colin “Mark Darcy”
Firth) reminisce with Donna how they “took a chance
like we were dancing our last dance”. Then immerse in
the romantic “When All Is Said And Done”, where
Sam and Donna sing to each other about how lovely it is to
be “standing calmly at the crossroads, no desire run”.
Round up the experience with Sophie (newcomer Amander Seyfried)
soothingly singing the hopeful “I Have A Dream”.
We
don’t really care whether the cast are professionally
trained in singing or not. With the catchy tunes and ageless
lyrics, we can’t help but love every minute of this
soundtrack. All together now: “Mama Mia! Here I go again.
My, my, how can I resist you?”
ALBUM
RATING:
Recommended Track: (3) Mamma Mia – Meryl Streep
Review
by John Li
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