Music and Lyrics
I’ve just watched Music & Lyrics, the Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore film about a has-been musician and a flower girl turned lyricist. The film isn’t earthshatteringly wonderful but I don’t think it set out to be. It is cute, feel good, and most importantly given the subject, it has a ridiculously catchy song as its backbone.
A while back I heard Colin Murray comment on his radio show that the Mystery Jets single Young Love had some similarity to the soundtrack to this film. I thought nothing of it at the time, but when watching the film I couldn’t help but think I’d heard the track somewhere before. Have a listen to the two tracks below and judge for yourself…
Hugh Grant and Haley Bennet – Way Back Into Love
Mystery Jets and Laura Marling – Young Love
Ps.
On a more superficial note:
Laura…. WHY?!
The witching hour.
So here’s what the bard has to say about the wee small hours that are to be my “day” for the week:
- Tis now the very witching time of night,
- When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
- Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,
- And do such bitter business as the day
- Would quake to look on.
- [hAMLET Act III, sc. ii]
Or in my own experience of the night shift….
