The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 [Original Soundtrack]

by Sisterhood Of The Travelling 2

Overview

Chronologically, the 11 songs on the "music from the motion picture" soundtrack album for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 range from Cyndi Lauper's '80s evergreen "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" to Michelle Branch's newly written end title summing-up "Together" ("We belong together...We'll be strong forever"). Musically, they include James Otto's country effort "Sunset Man" and Craig David's R&B tune "Friday Night." But for the most part, this is a miscellany of mediocre pop music of the early 21st century, presumably the kind of thing one or more of the four late-teen principals in the picture might be expected to have on her iPod. The selection and sequencing seem to owe something to the compilers of the Now That's What I Call Music! series, as the musical styles switch from pop to country to R&B to punk pop and back to pop/rock. But none of this is memorable, and some of it doesn't make sense. Why is Eric Hutchinson's leadoff song called "Rock & Roll" when it's set to a simplified ska beat? While the album isn't quite dismissible as a Warner Bros. Records label sampler designed more to do favors to friends than to assemble music of any quality, it's a close call. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	08/05/2008
Label:	Warner Bros.
UPC:	0093624985600
Rank:	216547

Tracks

1. Rock & Roll
2. Together
3. Sunset Man
4. No One's Aware
5. Warm Whispers
6. Friday Night
7. Sister Rosetta (Capture the Spirit)
8. 5 Times out of 100
9. Girls Just Want to Have Fun
10. You Are Mine
11. Strange & Beautiful (I'll Put a Spell on You)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Craig David   Primary Artist
The Noisettes   Primary Artist
Jack Savoretti   Primary Artist
Aqualung   Primary Artist
Eric Hutchinson   Primary Artist
Cyndi Lauper   Primary Artist
James Otto   Primary Artist
MUTEMATH   Primary Artist
Missy Higgins   Primary Artist
Michelle Branch   Primary Artist
Hot Hot Heat   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Jack Savoretti   Composer
Mitchell Froom   Producer
Missy Higgins   Composer
Hillary Lindsey   Composer
Eric Hutchinson   Composer
Shannon Lawson   Composer
Michelle Branch   Composer,Producer
MUTEMATH   Composer
Julia Michels   Music Supervisor
Broderick Johnson   Executive Soundtrack Producer
Xavier Ramos   Producer
Mathieu Bitton   Design,Art Direction
Sanaa Hamri   Executive Soundtrack Producer
Will Golden   Producer
Martin Terefe   Producer
Robert Hazard   Composer
John Shanks   Producer
Hot Hot Heat   Composer
Lennie Petze   Producer
Eg White   Composer
James Otto   Producer,Composer
Craig David   Composer
Andrew A. Kosove   Executive Soundtrack Producer
Tedd T.   Producer
Matt Hales   Producer