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Rating: MUSIC WORTHY OF AN OSCAR
"I won the Oscar for the music of a film I haven't even seen..." (hahaha)
1984: The theaters fill up for a rather bland comedy that fully represents the emptiness and stupidity of part of 80s cinema: "The Woman in Red."
Three things save (but only partially) this film: the charm of Gene Wilder, the breathtaking allure of Kelly Le Brock, and finally the famous soundtrack by Stevie Wonder. A few songs (only eight), a couple sung also with Dionne Warwick. Few tracks remain in this album of the good soul sound of Stevie from the past years. A swerve towards commercial pop. Sales are certainly not lacking, and the radios play almost only his song. The leading track is obviously the single "I Just Called To Say I Love You", who doesn't know it?!
It has the merit of extreme catchiness and a refrain (like a love message on an answering machine) that emerges, sweet and harmonious, among Stevie's keyboard and synthesizer sounds, just listen to it once and you won't forget it! Here we find it in a six-minute version, different from the one included in various Greatest Hits, longer, with a piece of the refrain at the end sung by a robotic voice. Still worth remembering: "The Woman In Red", "It's You" and "Love Light In Flight".
The rest? Nothing special, truly forgettable!
Stevie thus receives the statuette, with a dreamy air, head incessantly moving as if following a music that continuously hums in his mind, an unmistakable wide grin of 32 teeth on his face. There's something good, it can be found in the cute songs mentioned above, yet it remains a rather empty album, with few significant pieces. As a soundtrack for a comedy with few pretensions, it's PERFECT for 5 stars!! Evaluated as an album, it's poor and absolutely insufficient!
And here the two stars are indeed due to this last consideration...
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
07 Weakness (04:13)
Everytime I think our love is drifting apart
Something always throws it back together
And everytime I think I've found someone new for my heart
After one kiss my heart tells me never
Oh everyone has got a weakness in life
Girl, you just happen to be mine
Oh everyone has got a certain weakness in life
Your love just happens to be mine
Everytime I think your love has no more to give
You do something more to take me higher
And everytime I think that for someone else I could live
I'd be living love out as a liar
Oh everyone has got a weakness in life
Girl, you just happen to be mine
Oh everyone has got a certain weakness in life
Your love just happens to be mine
We keep thinking that our love won't last beyond tomorrow
But our hearts say we're gonna stay in love this way
Oh everyone has got a weakness in life
Girl, you just happen to be mine
Oh everyone has got a certain weakness in life
Your love just happens to be mine
(Repeat chorus)
08 Don't Drive Drunk (06:33)
He and his wife have had problems
That he's played off like nothing's wrong
'Til he comes home from work early
Just to find the girl is gone
Oh but he gets into the cupboard
Picks out that bottle of gin
Drinks like there's no tomorrow
And decides to take a spin
No don't drive drunk
Don't drive drunk, no
Don't drive drunk
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers are mad
Teenager at a live party
Says, "give me one for the road"
But he's already so inebriated
If you lit a smoke he'd explode
But bartender says, "I don't think so"
Young one says, "I can deal"
Staggering out he says, "check you all later"
But I really don't think he will
No don't drive drunk
Don't drive drunk, no
Don't drive drunk
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers are mad
(Repeat)
(Background)
Don't drive drunk
d-d-d don't drive drunk
Don't drive drunk
Hicup
(repeat)
Boy out with girl on their first date
Gets pulled over by the law
Officer says, "hey can't you drive straight
Or have you been drinking alcohol?"
Boy says, "man are you crazy?"
Cop says, "hey then walk this line"
But results from the breathalizer
Proves he's charged with D.U.I.
No don't drive drunk
Don't drive drunk, no
Don't drive drunk
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers are mad
(Repeat)
(Background)
Don't drive drunk
d-d-d don't drive drunk
Don't drive drunk
Hicup
(repeat)
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