Comments on: Peter Gabriel Drops Out of Oscar Performance in Protest of Medley Format

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:29:17 +0000

Zach, I wouldn’t call “songs” being important to films. I would say the soundtrack or film music is. They should ditch the songs for full orchestral (or whatever) soundtrack selections.

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:15:56 +0000

When watching the show… the music performances are the only good thing about it. You people love movies but don’t appreciate how important the music is to it? Disgust.

By: Deven Science

Deven Science — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:11:49 +0000

Remember the year the Ramones sang all of the nominated songs as a medley? That worked okay, but not great. Or was that the MTV movie awards? I just remember it happening, and being syked that the Ramones were getting major attention for a moment.

By: TheMovieVampire

TheMovieVampire — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:20:10 +0000

They might be doing this because they don’t want ten minutes worth of Hindi-language music and they don’t want to give those two songs inequel treatment.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:25:39 +0000

I don’t even remember the song from Wall-E so I can’t say I’m terribly broken up about it. They might as well just ditch the performances all together and show clips of the films set to the songs if all they want is 60 seconds for each.

(Does this mean the other songs now get bumped to 90 seconds each?)

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:16:28 +0000

eh, he’s just being a baby. no one gives two shits about the stupid music they played at the end of the movie. bet pixar is kicking itself for not getting phil collins to do the wall-e theme song—now there’s a true professional.

By: TheMovieVampire

TheMovieVampire — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:34:56 +0000

Stupid move on the producers part, I always kind of dig the Original song performances, especially when there’s a nominated song that I really like (Jai Ho, Falling Slowly, It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp, Shaft). Of all the things that make the ceremony drag on the musical numbers are probably the least egregious and they can lead to some really fun moments.

If they really want to make them less of a big deal they should just stop doing these elaborate set pieces and just have the people perform. If they’re going to reduced the songs to just 60 seconds they should just cut them all together.

I have a very bad feeling about the whole ceremony now and I’m glad Peter Gabriel called bullshit, good for him.

By: Falsk

Falsk — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:07:27 +0000

Oh, bravo. So this medley is definitely going to ensure that the show’s over by 11, right?

Either way, I really love the song so I guess I’ll have to continue play it on iTunes or whatever if I want to hear it. Hrmph.

By: Glendon

Glendon — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:36:17 +0000

I just can’t wait to see what useless non-movie-related performance piece or movie-related montage they replace this with. The performances of the best songs should be an obvious detour from the awards being handed out, but they seem to want to shaft them for something irrelevant.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:05:54 +0000

I’m just glad they didn’t decide to do this last year, when Once was nominated, because Glen and Marketa’s performance and win was the only good part of that show. Just about any other year I can think of, I couldn’t care less about the best song category.

By: Kasper F. Nielsen

Kasper F. Nielsen — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:17:09 +0000

I think it’s a pretty solid move for the producers to pull off. A medley is a good way to cut time in a category that is rather uninteresting to begin with.