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The Wicked Die Young is a music album that was released in 2017 as a companion piece to the movie The Neon Demon directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.[1][2][3][4] Winding Refn gave a number of interviews about the album, telling Elizabeth Aubrey “The fourteen tracks on this compilation represent the various ideas I had while preparing The Neon Demon. Each song represents a specific emotion…since I wanted my film to be both a horror film and a melodrama with camp, glitter and vulgarity, as well as a comedy and of course a little science fiction, all these various tracks made me able to step into a parallel world to tell the story.”[5] In an interview with FACT in 2015, Refn explained why integrating music into moving image is so important for him. "Even when I shoot films I play music on set, in between takes", he said. "It helps you convey emotion better for actors - and brings people to a place of being that helps their performance."[6]
| The Wicked Die Young | |
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| Soundtrack album by various artists | |
| Released | April 14, 2017 |
| Label | Milan |
| Producer | Nicolas Winding Refn |
The album contains exclusive tracks from Drive artists Electric Youth as well as the Neon Demon composer (and long-time score of other Nicolas Winding Refn films) Martinez, plus Refn's nephew, Julian Winding, who also had an electronic number on the soundtrack. The Wicked Die Young also has a number of works from Suicide, Giorgio Moroder, Pino Donaggio, Lynsey de Paul, Dionne Warwick and Sparks, among others.[7][8]
Track listing
edit- A1 Electric Youth – "Good Blood"
- A2 Lynsey De Paul – "Won't Somebody Dance With Me"
- A3 Suicide – "Cheree"
- A4 999 – "Homicide"
- A5 The Heartbreakers – "Pirate Love"
- B1 Dionne Warwick – "Theme From Valley Of The Dolls"
- B2 Tommy Seebach – "Bubble Sex"
- B3 Amanda Lear – "Follow Me"
- C1 Giorgio Moroder – "Knights In White Satin"
- C2 Sparks – "The Number One Song in Heaven"
- C3 Cliff Martinez – "Becoming"
- D1 Pino Donaggio – "Dressed To Kill: The Shower"
- D2 Claudio Gizzi – "End Of A Myth"
- D3 Julian Winding – "When You Want To Hurt Someone"
References
edit- ^ The Wicked Die Young is a music album that was released in 2017 as a companion piece to the movie The Neon Demon directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/nicolas-winding-refn-presents-the-wicked-die-young-mw0003028871
- ^ https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/0074be47-b028-4835-bb0e-987230c3c1e5
- ^ "CD Album: Various Artists - Nicolas Winding Refn – The Wicked Die Young (2017)" – via www.45worlds.com.
- ^ https://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4151016-film-should-become-like-music-uncontrollable---dis-meets-nicolas-winding-refn
- ^ https://www.factmag.com/2015/06/29/nicolas-winding-refn-drive-interview/
- ^ Vehling, Aaron (April 12, 2017). "'The Wicked Die Young' So That Refn Might Truly Live". Vehlinggo. Retrieved June 12, 2024.
- ^ https://soundtracktracklist.com/release/the-wicked-die-young-soundtrack/