Various Artists - Bring It On (Music From The Motion Picture) (2000)

Country: U.S.A.

Genre: R&B, Pop, Hip-Hop

Label Number: EK 61431

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Bring It On [Original Soundtrack] Review by William Ruhlmann

Suppose you had the responsibility for assembling music for a motion picture, and you were told that the film was a comedy set among high school students competing in a cheerleading contest, with a largely white squad pitted against a largely black one? Your approach would be obvious, wouldn't it? You would divide the tracks up between contemporary teen pop and contemporary R&B, and you would look for songs that borrowed from cheerleading chants, right? If so, you probably would come up with something that sounded a lot like Bring It On's "music from the motion picture" album. (Actually, one track, 3LW's "'Til I Say So," is not from the film.) Among the teen pop entries, the most prominent is B*witched's cover of the Toni Basil hit "Mickey," which recreates its cheerleader sound, while the obvious emphasis track among the R&B songs is Blaque's "As If," presented in two versions, one of them featuring Joey Fatone Jr. Ideally, these songs will march up their respective charts, to be followed by selections from such less well-known peers as Sygnature ("2 Can Play") and sister2sister ("What's a Girl to Do"). That may occur, but the actual music supervisor of Bring It On never went beyond the obvious (and the available), and little of the album is distinguishable from current trends. The exception is Daphne & Celeste's "U.G.L.Y.," a cheerleader anthem derived from the kind of outrageous put-downs Bo Diddley used to put in his songs, which has a real spark and could be a novelty hit that could go down in high school history. 

 

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