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While the contents of the Juno soundtrack have probably made little difference to most Idolator readers’ lives (unless you didn’t know about the Moldy Peaches and, honest to blog, cried when you finally heard “Anybody Else But You”), there are at least three people who might be upgrading their furniture if director Jason Reitman had stuck with his original plans for the flick’s musical motif. “We started to realize there was this rebirth of lo-fi music that had the same energy as punk music, but nowhere as angry. The first band we discovered was Yo La Tengo and so I started to think that was the sound of the film.” Then Diablo Cody stormed in the room and went “blah blah I used to be a stripper and this isn’t sticky edgy sweet enough blah blah listen to this song on my Oh My iPod (get it?) it’s the biggity bomb!” Or rather Ellen Page downloaded “Anybody Else But You” for Reitman when he asked her what Juno would listen to. But it’s fun to pretend.
It’s also fun to imagine how the movie would have been if Georgia and Ira were crooning throughout the film instead of Kimya and Adam, and this clip reel set to Jacob Ruefer’s cover of “You Can Have It All” gives you an idea of how it would have been. (Yo La Tengo’s version did earn a place on the Juno B-sides comp.) (Also, isn’t it weird how much Ruefer sounds like YLT bassist James McNew?)
So would Reitman’s original plan have earned Yo La Tengo a gold album and the chance to perform on Sesame Street? Or would songs like “Sugarcube” and “The Summer” have failed to hit the same nerve as Kimya’s ultra-twee sensitivity?
JUNO – You Can Have It All (Cover) [YouTube]
Jason Reitman [KCRW via The Playlist]
what do you think he means by “the first band we discovered was yo la tengo”?
The first band we discovered was Yo La Tengo
not to get all indie snob up in here but dude, their first album is from like 1986, where the fuck have you been? no wonder this shit was the worst “indie” film i’ve ever seen (possibly an overstatement).
I can never again think of Yo La Tengo without remembering this:
[www.theonion.com]
I’m so cool because i heard all the songs in Juno like way before the movie ever even came out. And i was on the backlash bandwagon way before the movie came out.
I’m currently in search of indie scripts I can start hating on before production can get the greenlight. Preemptive elite hipsterism now, preemptive elite hipsterism forever.
Look…let’s just stop all of this right now because….
I listen to bands that don’t even exist yet.
Everybody can relax. Her next movie is called Jennifer’s Body, and although the plot summary doesn’t seem to have anything to do with it, we should all be able to hate it sight unseen just due to the fact the title’s stolen FROM GODDAMN HOLE LYRICS!!!
@MayhemintheHood: Sorry, but if this is the movie from which those “naked” pics of Megan Fox leaked, I cannot share in your hateration.
@loudersoft: Thanks for bringing back such a great article. I remember reading that when it came out and dying with laughter.
Added Ringler: “I just pray they can somehow get this club rebuilt in time for next month’s Dismemberment Plan/Death Cab For Cutie show. That’s a fantastic double bill.”
I actually went to a show on this tour that year (2002), and it was really good!
You couldn’t find a picture of the band that’s less than a dozen years old?
Also, it makes me chuckle when Reitman describes YLT’s music as “lo-fi”. I can’t figure out if he’s talking about the albums pre-Fakebook or Fakebook itself, which sounds pretty great to these ears. Everything they did after 1993 was pretty gauzy but hardly lo-fi. That’s just plain insulting to Roger Moutenot.
Finally: “Sugarcube” = the best music video, EVAR.
@baconfat: I had no desire to find a picture of Yo La Tengo less than a dozen years old. BRING BACK ELECTR-O-PURA!!!
@How do I say this … THROWDINI!: Dude, I can dig that. But now that you’ve seen the pics, have them as your desktop wallpaper and “pasted” to your bathroom walls, the finished movie is not needed.
@loudersoft: I’be already decided they’re overrated.
@SAShepherd: That’s “I’ve.” Grr.
@Chris N.: Duh, everyone knows that the music is less pure after conception.
Never mind, I’m over them now.
Right now I’m listening to an awesome band whose members haven’t been born yet.