Once and Never Again
After the travesty of the Brit Awards, finally, someone who deserves to win something…well, wins.
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova’s song, “Falling Slowly”, from the really rather good independent Irish musical Once won the Oscar for Best Original song this past week – and thank God for that, seeing as all but one of the other nominated songs was from fucking Enchanted. Whatever happened to the heady days of 2000? (Artists nominated: Bob Dylan, Björk, Thom Yorke, Randy Newman and, er, Sting).
Apparently the song almost didn’t get nominated, since it was apparently not originally meant for the film – which, after a bit of research it, uh, wasn’t (Hansard recorded a version with his bad, The Frames, which appeared on their 2006 album, The Cost; Hansard and Irglova also did a version for their Swell Season album).
But you didn’t want Enchanted to win, did you?
Anyway, the song is a beautiful, wistful, lovelorn ballad; but despite that description, which makes it sound like James Blunt/Morrisson/etc, it is very good. As is Once, so expect a review on that other, more popular blog, since the DVD has just come out.
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