![]() Before scoring the film, Wheeler had to listen over several recordings and musicals of Presley, to interpret the feel of the music, which Wheeler had stated "You get to treat the script as music, and music as the script. The incidental underscore is composed by Elliot Wheeler. We wanted to have the audience feel that."īutler, on syncing modern sounds for the Elvis soundtrack It started to tear off the chains of society at that time. People hadn't seen something like this on stage, especially on television. "A lot of people don't understand the punk Elvis, the vibrant youth rebel he was in the '50s. Luhrmann stated that it was a way of illustrating the radical impact of Presley's sound on current generation of audiences, a technique he did in the soundtrack to The Great Gatsby, in which executive producer Jay-Z had infused hip hop beats with jazz music, while in the novel on which the film is based, Fitzgerald wrote African-American street music and jazz numbers. The film's soundtrack was expected to consist of Presley's recordings, however Luhrmann planned to include modern artists and their renditions with hip hop beats, infusing of jazz and rock music from the 20th century. The soundtrack garnered a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, as well as being chosen as 2022's best soundtrack by both the Hollywood Music in Media Awards and the American Music Awards. A deluxe edition of the album that consisted unheard recordings of Butler, featured in the film was released on March 10, 2023. ![]() The album spawned five singles: " Vegas", " Trouble", " The King and I", " If I Can Dream", and "Tupelo Shuffle". It consists of a mix of genres, including pop, rock and roll, jazz, R&B and hip hop. The album also features variations on Presley material by big name artists in a variety of genres and styles. ![]() The album comprises 36 tracks, while featuring actual recordings of Presley's songs, it also features few tracks performed by Austin Butler (who portrays Presley in the film), and several popular artists, namely Doja Cat, Eminem, Diplo, Stevie Nicks, Jack White, Swae Lee amongst others. The album is produced by Baz Luhrmann and Anton Monstead who also worked on the soundtrack of The Great Gatsby. The soundtrack was released by RCA Records on June 24, 2022, the same day as the film's theatrical release. Elvis (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the biographical film Elvis, based on the life of American singer-actor Elvis Presley.
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