Taylor Swift dropped her authentic track “Beautiful Ghosts” from the musical “Cats,” a collaboration she wrote with the unique composer of the Broadway musical Andrew Lloyd Webber, on Friday.
A snippet of “Beautiful Ghosts” made an look within the first, internet-breaking trailer for “Cats” a couple of months again. But Swift has now launched the complete lyric video for the track.
The observe is a ghostly, swish piano ballad about eager for a greater life and a want to belong someplace whereas clinging to misplaced recollections and emotions. It’s all very pristine earlier than constructing to a grand, Broadway-sized crescendo.
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“All that I wanted was to be wanted. Too young to be wander London streets alone and haunted,” Swift sings. “Born into nothing. At least you have something, something to cling to. Visions of dazzling rooms I’ll never get let into. And then the memories were lost long ago. But at least you have beautiful ghosts.”
This track thrusts Swift head first into the Oscar race for Best Original track, the place she might be up towards Beyoncé for her authentic track “Spirit” for “The Lion King” and even the trio of Lana Del Rey, Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande for his or her observe for “Charlie’s Angels.” And that’s simply the mega pop stars of right this moment in a race that additionally contains Elton John, Pharrell Williams, Cynthia Erivo, Jackson Browne, Diane Warren, Thom Yorke and an authentic track from “Frozen II.”
Swift stars in “Cats” alongside Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson, Judi Dench, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Ray Winstone and newcomer Francesca Hayward, all of whom have been made up as CGI cats with fur, tails and pointy ears. Tom Hooper directs the film adaptation of the lengthy working stage musical that opens in theaters Dec. 20.
Swift’s newest album “Lover” releases right this moment. Check out the brand new track above.
36 Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2019, From ‘It Chapter Two’ to ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ (Photos)
We’re within the dwelling stretch. The last quarter of the yr brings with it some mega blockbusters, Oscar hopefuls and indie darlings. As a part of our fall film preview, listed below are the 36 motion pictures we’re most excited for within the coming months.
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“It: Chapter Two” – Sept. 6 (New Line)
Andy Muschietti’s first “It” movie introduced in $700.three million worldwide on the again of a terrifying efficiency from Bill Skarsgård because the monster clown Pennywise. And the thrill of that movie spurred the brand new movie’s A-list solid, together with Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy and Bill Hader as grown-up members of The Losers Club. The sequel, although, clocks in at two hours and 49 minutes.
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“Hustlers” – Sept. 13 (STX Entertainment)
Look at these cash strikes. The spectacular solid of pop star royalty behind “Hustlers,” together with Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B and Lizzo, helps deliver some hip hop angle and elegance to the true story of a gaggle of strip membership dancers who swindled their clientele of usually corrupt Wall Street brokers. Lorene Scafaria’s (“Seeking a Friend For the End of the World”) movie is impressed by a New Yorker journal article by Jessica Pressler, and the completed product is like if “Ocean’s 8” met “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Constance Wu, Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer and Lili Reinhart additionally star within the movie.
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“Ad Astra” – Sept. 20 (20th Century Fox)
Director James Gray’s luxurious, slow-burn character dramas have all the time discovered an viewers with critics and cinephiles. His newest places him into the sci-fi…