Wednesday
Feb242016
Musical Moments
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 12:22PM 
Time for more Film Bitch Categories. We're almost done*. Click away for the nominees in two more scene categories involving music.
Films featured in this round include (deep breath now): Chi-Raq, Ex-Machina, Girlhood, I'll See You In My Dreams, The Last Five Years, Magic Mike XXL, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Ricki & the Flash, Straight Outta Compton, and Victoria
*Only eight more categories to go... Best Scenes (not featured in these categories), Opening and Closing Scenes, Title Sequence, Sex Scenes, Best Kisses, and Best Actor and Best Actress in Limited or Cameo Roles... (which generally means no more than 2 scenes). We'll name our gold, silver, and bronze medalists on Friday/Saturday.
Reader Comments (6)
The song in CHI-RAQ is “Oh Girl" by The Chi-Lites.
Three words: "The Final Derriere."
"Oh Girl" -- very important tool in the mating rituals of early to mid '70s America.
The bar song in A Pigeon...is when I fell in love with the film. Probably my favorite scene in any film last year. It's just so perfect at what it sets out to do. I'm only a little surprised that you didn't include the dance class scene from earlier in the film under the honorable mentions. So perfectly awkward.
*goes and listens to L5Y on a loop for four days, thank you Nathaniel*
But GOD YES on the piano scene in VICTORIA. I was pretty chilly on the film and even the one-take approach, but that unbroken moment was a doozy.
No love for Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You from The Last Five Years? That entire sequence hurt my feelings. Young love meets reality check.
I almost didn't watch it because I ended up with an immense distaste for Jeremy Jordan after his god-awful character in Smash even though he's quite cute and has a lovely voice.