It’s been years since I had laid my ears on a soundtrack worth lifting illegally from the sea of music pederasts in the internet. That is, since the OST of Cruel Intentions, Empire Records, and Ten Things I Hate About You, which were like three, four years ago.o_o Juno’s soundtrack could be categorized under the rubric indie-folk-punk, the sort that Juno’s character would listen to, thus lathering the movie thick paintstripes of what Juno is like. Kimya Dawson, a former Moldy Peaches member, contributes several songs, with two of my favs, “Tire Swing” and “Tree Hugger”, the latter featuring Ansty Pants; both songs you can listen to wedged in between paragraphs below. There’s also the indie stalwarts, Belle and Sebastian, along with The Velvet Underground, Mateo Messina, The Kinks, Sonic Youth, and Cat Power.
Kimya Dawson and Antsy Pants – Tree Hugger
The flower said, “I wish I was a tree,”
The tree said, “I wish I could be
A different kind of tree,”
The cat wished that it was a bee,
The turtle wished that it could fly
Really high into the sky,
Over rooftops and then dive
Deep into the sea.
The collection stirs an underground cult among teenagers and twenty-somethings like myself, the soundtrack multiplying exponentially in the hidden corners of cyberspace. Everywhere I go I see FREE JUNO SOUNDTRACK screaming at my face, blinking and jumping all over the screen. But before that, you have to click this penile enlargement link or image.XD
Belle and Sebastian – Piazza, New York Catcher
Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the world
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
Oh elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablaze
A trail for the devil to erase
Light, genuine, simple. Ellen Page tells Pitchfork Media: “It has a hint of novelty, but it is full of so much heart and so much simplicity and it’s so genuine. It’s really unique and it’s quirky and all of those things, but it has heart to balance that. And that’s one of the reasons why I always loved their music. I loved how it was just bare-boned, and I feel like that is similar to Juno, the film in general and the character. She has a sarcastic wit that she hides behind, but she’s also just an extremely genuine, honest, says-what-she-thinks human being, and I feel the film’s like that as well. It has that tone.”
Kimya Dawson – Tire Swing
I took the Polaroid down in my room
I’m pretty sure you have a new girlfriend
It’s not as if I don’t like you
It just makes me sad whenever I see it
‘cause I like to be gone most of the time
And you like to be home most of the time
If I stay in one place I lose my mind
I’m a pretty impossible lady to be with
If you dig it, you can download it here.
