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“I had a couple of conversations with them about releasing (‘Bachelor No. Her old label Geffen had been swallowed up by Interscope, and in the aftermath, she and other artists were told that if they didn’t want to stick around they could break their contracts. “You’re sort of barely getting into it and then they’re like, ‘Nope, it’s Randy Newman’s turn.’” An independent ‘Bachelor’īy the time “Magnolia” hit theaters and Mann appeared on the Oscars, she was a singer-songwriter without a record label. “It’s hard to sing for just a minute,” she says. The film earned three Oscar nominations including one for Mann’s original song “Save Me,” which landed the singer, whose previous on-screen role was limited to the role of Nihilist Woman in “The Big Lebowski,” on an Oscar show broadcast to nearly 80 million viewers.Īlready a nervous performer on television broadcasts, Mann says the Oscars delivered the additional stress that all of the nominated songs that year were shortened into a medley. “Almost like PTSD where unusual experiences seem commonplace because nobody reacts to them, but normal life, it feels surreal.” “There was something there, the tone, that was really interesting,” she says. “I think I really hadn’t understood how all these stories and threads were going to weave together.
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Seeing the finished film at a pre-release screening was nearly as surreal though much more in focus. Like this is such a sad, missed opportunity.” I was in a scene with Jason Robards but he was blurry. “I wasn’t wearing contact lenses so when I took my glasses off I couldn’t see anybody. “It was very surreal,” she says, laughing as she describes performing opposite the “Magnolia” stars, yet mostly not seeing them. Anderson also shot a music video of Mann singing “Save Me” on the set like a spectral visitor floating through the lives and homes of the characters. The song “Wise Up” turned into a key scene in the film, with most of the ensemble cast singing along to Mann’s track.
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It was a bit more of a back and forth so there were songs that he heard that I think he started to think about a place in the film and write a scene.”
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“It wasn’t like the movie was totally finished and then I went off and wrote a bunch of songs. “When I was writing, when we were talking, he was writing the script,” Mann says. Mann met and befriended Anderson after her husband, singer-songwriter Michael Penn, scored “Hard Eight” and “Boogie Nights,” the director’s first two films.Ī filmmaker for whom music often contributed to the narratives Anderson told on screen, the storytelling quality of Mann’s lyrics and emotionally evocative melodies had a natural appeal that grew stronger as both artists carried out their own creative work. 2’ and ‘Magnolia’ albums together for Black Friday Record Store Day reissue – Orange County Register Close Menu