At his request, I’m filling in for Don Durito this week. While I promise to keep the music and booze flowing, I am putting my own touch on the party while I’m the host.
Don Durito and I both share a love for 1980s rock music, but that’s not what I have in mind this week. Instead, I’m going to indulge my love of movie music by featuring this year’s nominated songs (so far) from environmental and political movies at the Grammys, Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, and Golden Globes.
“Moana” was one of two feature films nominated by the Environmental Media Association as having an environmental theme worth recognizing, so I’m considering the Grammy nominated song How Far I’ll Go to be from an environmental movie. Who am I to argue with the EMA? If nothing else, the CGI scenery is pretty.
Music video by Auli’i Cravalho performing How Far I’ll Go. (C) 2016 Walt Disney Records
“Chasing Coral” and “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” both had their original songs nominated at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards. Both movies were also nominated by the EMA in the documentary film category. “Chasing Coral” didn’t win, so its theme song, Tell Me How Long Music Video Feat. Kristen Bell goes first.
Kristen Bell performs “Tell Me How Long” from the new film Chasing Coral, now streaming on Netflix.
Music & Lyrics by Dan Romer and Teddy Geiger
The scenery is just as pretty and here it’s real.
“An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” won the Documentary Film award from the EMA. Al Gore also won an award for Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, so its theme song, “Truth to Power” by OneRepublic (perfect band name, if nothing else) comes next.
Music video by OneRepublic performing Truth To Power. (C) 2017 Mosley Music/Interscope Records
I’ll post the nominated songs from non-environmental political movies in the comments. I’m looking forward to your favorite movie music in the comments, too.
In keeping with the environmental theme, tonight’s drink is Earth Day Ocean Water.
The bartender is now taking requests.
This swaggering rocker with a transcendent chorus played over the closing credits of Melissa McCarthy’s “Spy”. Totally knocked me out. The teenage lead singer really delivered a great chorus over the roaring instrumentals. For some reason, I can’t get the video to embed tonight, so I ask that you click the link and check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSUMF5bSGTI
You’ll be happy you did.
Here’s the video.
The problem is that YouTube recently added the attributes gesture=”media” and allow=”encrypted-media” to its embed code, which the software here does not like. They have to be deleted by hand to get the video to embed.
BTW, cool song choice and a surprisingly good movie. In addition to being nominated for Best Comedy Film of the year by Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globes) and the Broadcast Film Critics Association (Critics’ Choice), the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films (Saturn Awards) nominated it for Best Action/Adventure Film. It worked as well as a spy movie as it did a comedy.
Thanks all around, Neon Vincent. I share your appreciation for the movie and this song.
I’m trying to get that hand deletion right so I can video embed, but I’m not executing it right. Can you show me a before and after example? Thanks for the help.
“Can you show me a before and after example?”
Here is the text of the unedited embed code of the next video I’m going to post:
iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https:/www.youtube.com/embed/2GhY7qXGx-0″ frameborder=”0″ gesture=”media” allow=”encrypted-media” allowfullscreen
This is the edited text:
iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https:
/www.youtube.com/embed/2GhY7qXGx-0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen
The tags ‘gesture=”media” allow=”encrypted-media”‘ plus one space either before or after have been deleted so there is only one space between frameborder=”0″ and allowfullscreen.
Unfortunately, I can’t embed the video, Andra Day – Stand Up For Something feat. Common [Official Music Video].
This song has been nominated at both the Grammys and the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. I expect it will be nominated for an Oscar.
Out of curiosity, what web browser do you use? I find that I have to use Firefox for posting embedded YouTube videos – at least when I set up the diary. In the comments, I can often get away with using Google Chrome or Opera. Not sure why, but that seems to be what I deal with. If I try to preview in Google Chrome, I get some error message in which the browser software acts as if it is protecting my computer from something malicious. Very strange.
I use Firefox to post here and had no problems posting videos until yesterday. Now, I get a similar kind of message when I try to post embedded videos.
Loving what you did with this cafe! Thanks for filling in. We’ll have to rotate a bit more often!
Thank you. Looking forward to posting another of these when the software issues are fixed (I can’t imagine one of these without music videos).
Hopefully, the Frogpond is just about back in good shape once more. Of course I honestly don’t know how long anything in the Scoop platform will last any more. Ultimately I expect we’ll all migrate to Progress Pond.
But yes, by all means we should rotate a bit. That’ll keep things fresh. The old foto flogs had rotating hosts for quite a while and that worked out quite nicely, although by the end it was pretty much up to BobX to keep it going, until one day BobX just faded away (I hope he’s okay).
Looks like I am being blocked from embedding YouTube videos by something called Sucuri. Near as I can figure either the website host needs to whitelist YouTube videos or I am going to have to buy Sucuri for myself just to open a support ticket. Strange.
Once the whole Sucuri thing gets figured out so that YouTube is whitelisted, I have a couple things lined up that fit the theme of soundtrack pieces to political films. I won’t do anything until then, as just posting a link doesn’t have the same feeling.
I’ll check from time to time to see if the problem with embedding is fixed. If not, I fear that this may well be the last midweek cafe for a while. Hey, if so, we had a great run, and Neon Vincent really knocked it out of the park with this last one.
Sorry folks. Looks like we’ll be putting the Midweek Cafe and Lounge on hiatus indefinitely. Maybe one day. Until or if that day happens, it was one heck of a run. I wish these could continue.