![]() ![]() “Empirically, you just don’t see Muse songs licensed all over the place,” says Knobloch. ![]() Their toughest get? Muse’s “Uprising,” as performed by the villainous German singing troupe Das Sound Machine, with bad accents and nearly fascistic choreography. (The film did successfully procure a Perry song for another scene - for a “low six-figure sum,” says an insider - but, like about 40 other licensed tunes, it got cut.) If you’re expecting Katy Perry as a third choice, the scene stops short of that. For instance, in one scene, a cappella teams compete with spontaneous arrangements of hits in several different categories, one being “I Dated John Mayer.” One team does a Vanessa Carlton tune, while another busts out some Swift, to big laughs. ![]() They could pay more for some songs than others, but the “riff-off” mashup sequences dictated that every song used in a medley pay the same amount. Watch Jessie J’s Uplifting ‘Flashlight’ Video from ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart until October 2013, more than a year after the film’s release. theaters (according to Box Office Mojo) before proving its mettle post-theatrically the soundtrack debuted with a mere 9,000 units on its way to selling 1.3 million albums, according to Nielsen Music. Pitch Perfect grossed a respectable $65 million in U.S. “Neither the first movie nor the soundtrack album opened with spectacular numbers,” says Resnikoff. ![]() The reasoning: A huge chunk of the film’s biggest laughs come from hearing the first bar or two of a musical cue, whether it’s - spoilers ahead! - the Green Bay Packers doing “Bootylicious” or Rebel Wilson’s Fat Amy wooing her ex-boyfriend with a comically melodramatic “We Belong to the Night.” Fans looking for a song lineup for Pitch Perfect 2 on services like iTunes or Amazon have only seen blank spaces, as UMe aims to keep the 18-track lineup under wraps until its actual street date, a level of secrecy not even Taylor Swift strives for. While the marketing behind the film has been aggressive, the pregame push for the soundtrack has been virtually nonexistent. ![]()
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