Soundtrack in stores July 15; Film opens July 25
Featured Artists Scheduled for Performances at The Los Angeles Film
Festival and Lollapalooza
Every great movie has a great soundtrack.
LOS ANGELES, June 17 -- AMERICAN TEEN MUSIC FROM THE
MOTION PICTURE is more than just a motion picture soundtrack, it is the
soundtrack of five young adults as they embark on one of the most sacred
and significant years of their lives.
Film critics are already raving about the 2008 Sundance hit documentary
AMERICAN TEEN, the touching, candid and hilarious look at five real
students during their senior year in small-town Warsaw, Indiana. Directed
by Academy-Award nominated Nanette Burstein, AMERICAN TEEN chronicles the
lives of five completely different teenagers, from the popular girl to the
socially awkward "geek," examining the cliques they belong to, the
questions they ponder and the trials and tribulations they face preparing
for adulthood in the new millennium.
Through it all, the one constant is the music. The eclectic soundtrack
features some of today's hottest up-and-coming acts (The Ting Tings, Black
Kids, MGMT, and Does It Offend You, Yeah?), timeless classics including
John Paul Young's "Love Is In The Air" and Cat Stevens' "Trouble," and a
steady mix of the teenager's favorite bands culled directly from their
iPods during filming.
"When I approached the music for this movie, I wanted the musical
choices to be inspired by the playlists of the featured teenagers. So
throughout the year of filming, I would download as much music as I could
from their iPods. I think the sum really captures the emotions that these
five seniors experienced throughout their final year of high school," says
director Nanette Burstein.
Critics agree, those emotions connect throughout AMERICAN TEEN.
Entertainment Weekly calls the film "sensationally engrossing. A heady,
eye-opening pleasure," and Vanity Fair hails, "AMERICAN TEEN is the great
Hughes movie that Hughes never made." Other accolades include "Undeniably
entertaining" (Variety), "A riveting and resonant drama" (Elle) and
"AMERICAN TEEN is a modern day 'THE BREAKFAST CLUB' that will make you
stand up and cheer." (E! Entertainment Television).
The soundtrack's SUNNY DAY SETS FIRE will perform at the Los Angeles
Film Festival's premiere of AMERICAN TEEN on June 25 at the Ford
Amphitheater. Many of the soundtrack's artists will be performing together
in August, when MGMT, The Ting Tings, Black Kids and Does It Offend You,
Yeah? entertain tens of thousands of fans at Lollapalooza, in Chicago.
AMERICAN TEEN opens in select theaters July 25 and nationwide in
August, and is being released by Paramount Vantage, the specialty film
division of Paramount Pictures Corporation and a unit of Viacom. AMERICAN
TEEN MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE is being released by Columbia Records on
July 15.
AMERICAN TEEN MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE Track Listing:
1. Black Kids
"I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You"
2. The Ting Tings
"Great DJ"
3. Sunny Day Sets Fire
"Lack of View (Edit)"
4. Frou Frou
"Breathe In (The Jason Bentley Remix)" ***
5. Patrick Watson
"The Great Escape"
6. Cat Stevens
"Trouble"
7. John Paul Young
"Love Is In The Air"
8. Ryan Lindsey
"Let's Go Out" ***
9. Does It Offend You, Yeah?
"Dawn of the Dead"
10. Luna Halo
"Kings and Queens"
11. Blackalicious
"Your Move"
12. The Unicorns
"Sea Ghost"
13. The New Pornographers
"Adventures In Solitude"
14. Nyles Lannon
"Train" ***
15. MGMT
"Kids"
*** indicates an exclusive, previously unreleased track
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