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    The 2024 Oscars Original Song Contenders Playlist

    by Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times Nov 27, 2023 4 minutes
    The lingering emotion of“ Past Lives” is poetically captured in Sharon Van Etten and Zachary Dawes’“ Quiet Eyes.” Greta Lee, left, and Teo Yoo in a scene from the film.

    LOS ANGELES — The panoply of original songs bowing in 2023's movies runs the gamut from simple, touching ballads, boy-band reunion dance pop and somewhat profane numbers from an unconventional musical to hip-hop, driving rock and a beautifully awkward big finish from a faux-musical. Some notable songs were a little too ripe for inclusion in a family newspaper (sorry, "Dicks: The Musical"), but you can hear all the ones that did make it into The Envelope's annual best-of playlist on Spotify. (Some songs not available to stream at press time, sorry.)

    Bon appetit!

    (written by John Carney, Gary Clark, Robert John Ardiff, Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt;" — One of the key songs in Carney's unconventional musical deftly expresses two characters, their evolving relationship, and the growing musicianship of Hewson's protagonist.

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