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Tiburones5 wrote:

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DD wrote:

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I don't understand why Aretha sang the entire soundtrack for a MUSICAL. I haven't seen the film yet, but why would they do that? If there are strong performances from the cast, wouldn't they want to showcase that on the soundtrack?

Just seems odd to me. If Whitney is truly involved in either film, I would expect only a few songs on each soundtrack. Whitneyluva, please buy a bungee chord

Lonnette McKee said what the studio offered them to do the soundtrack worked out to be pennies. She also said that Curtis Mayfield did not want them to do the contract which is why he set the keys for the songs out of their range. She said that (paraphrasing) that they weren't even aware that Aretha Franklin knew what was going on behind the scenes when she agreed to do the contract.  So in a nutshell, they weren't going to make any money and Curtis M. did not want them to do it. Politics and basically artist raping.

Sparkle

It's not a musical in the vein of Dreamgirls although Dreamgirls does take inspiration from the movie. It's a drama agout a girl group trying to make it in Harlem with some memorable songs performed. It's also about how far one would go and what one would do to make it, the underbelly of the entertainment industry and of one of the sisters seeing her fream come through amidst personal family trajedy.

draug wrote:

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basically, it's a movie like The Preacher's Wife were the actors all speak but then you have scenes where the character sing a song. And sometimes just like during when Whitney sang IBIYAM they might show other scenes while she's singing. But it's not a musical like Cinderella. Hope this helps.